Press voanews.com.
Hillary Clinton
plans to return to the campaign trail Thursday after being sidelined for the
last several days with pneumonia. A spokesman for the Democratic presidential
candidate said Tuesday that details of her schedule would be announced later.
While Clinton continued to recuperate, she got a rousing endorsement from the
country's number one Democrat and her former boss, President Barack Obama.
"I am
really into electing Hillary Clinton," Obama told cheering supporters at a
sun-drenched rally in Philadelphia, a Democratic bastion where Clinton needs a
robust voter turnout in the November 8 election against Republican Donald
Trump. "I have seen how smart and savvy and tough she is. I had a
front-row seat for four years," Obama said of his onetime political foe
who was the country's top diplomat from 2009 to 2013.
Obama mocked
Trump, saying he "is not in any way, shape or form fit to represent this
county abroad and be our commander in chief." He belittled Trump's praise
for Russian President Vladimir Putin as "a strong leader, because he
invades smaller countries, jails his opponents, controls the press and drives
his economy into a long recession."
The president
added, "I have to do business with Putin. I have to do business with
Russia. That's part of foreign policy, but I don't go around saying that's my
role model."
"It's time
to embrace a new and prosperous, and I do mean prosperous, America," Trump
said. He later appeared outside Philadelphia, where he unveiled details of his
plans for making child care more affordable for American families and working
mothers.
He vowed to be
"the president of everyone," continuing to attack Clinton for her
remark last week that half of Trump's supporters were made up of a "basket
of deplorables" because of what she said were their "racist, sexist,
homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic" views.
A day later,
Clinton said she regretted saying that half of his voters had such views, but
otherwise stood by her remark. The two candidates will square off in the first
of three planned presidential debates on September 26, six weeks ahead of the
election.
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