With humor and hope, Obamas warn against Trump, urge Democrats to 'do something'
“We want something better. We want to be better,” Obama said.
“And the joy and excitement we’re seeing around this campaign tells us we’re not alone.”
They also warned, from firsthand experience, of the battle ahead to elect Harris – a path marred by what the former president called the “bluster, bumbling and chaos” of Trump on the campaign trail.
“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us,” Michelle Obama said of Trump’s campaign in 2016.
“His limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who also happened to be Black.
“Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs’?” the former first lady quipped to raucous applause.
She took jabs at Trump’s inheritance of generational wealth and his business failures – a marked departure from someone who during the 2016 Democratic convention said, “When they go low, we go high.”
“If things don’t go our way, we don’t have the luxury of whining or cheating others to get further ahead,” Michelle Obama said.
“We don’t get to change the rules so we always win.”
That also means that Americans have to “put our heads down” and power through the “ugly, misogynistic, racist lies” she said Trump will spread on the campaign trail.
“As we embrace this renewed sense of hope, let us not forget the despair we have felt,” Michelle Obama said.
“Let us not forget what we are up against.
“So consider this to be your official ask,” she said. “Michelle Obama is asking, no, telling you, to do something!”
‘We don’t need four more years of bluster and chaos’’
Former President Obama, too, warned of what to expect from Trump on the campaign trail.
“The childish nicknames and crazy conspiracy theories and weird obsession with crowd size,” he said while making measuring gestures with his hands. “It just goes on and on.”
“The other day, I heard someone compare Trump to the neighbor who keeps running his leaf blower outside your window every minute of every day,” Obama said. “From a neighbor, that’s exhausting. From a president, it’s just dangerous.”
But Obama described Americans as a people growing wise to Trump’s antics.
Trump’s bag of old political tricks – spreading an “us and them” mentality – “has gotten pretty stale,” he said.
“We don’t need four more years of bluster and chaos,” Obama added. We’ve seen that movie. And we all know that the sequel’s usually worse.”
America is ready for a new chapter, Obama said, led by “President Kamala Harris.”
Obama declared Harris is ready for the job.
He said she spent her career as a prosecutor fighting for victims of sexual abuse and, fighting big banks and for-profit colleges, and as vice president, helping to cap the price of insulin and lower health care costs.
“She’s not the neighbor running the leaf blower,” he said. “She’s the neighbor rushing over to help when you need a hand.”
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“We want something better. We want to be better,” Obama said.
“And the joy and excitement we’re seeing around this campaign tells us we’re not alone.”
They also warned, from firsthand experience, of the battle ahead to elect Harris – a path marred by what the former president called the “bluster, bumbling and chaos” of Trump on the campaign trail.
“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us,” Michelle Obama said of Trump’s campaign in 2016.
“His limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who also happened to be Black.
“Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs’?” the former first lady quipped to raucous applause.
She took jabs at Trump’s inheritance of generational wealth and his business failures – a marked departure from someone who during the 2016 Democratic convention said, “When they go low, we go high.”
“If things don’t go our way, we don’t have the luxury of whining or cheating others to get further ahead,” Michelle Obama said.
“We don’t get to change the rules so we always win.”
That also means that Americans have to “put our heads down” and power through the “ugly, misogynistic, racist lies” she said Trump will spread on the campaign trail.
“As we embrace this renewed sense of hope, let us not forget the despair we have felt,” Michelle Obama said.
“Let us not forget what we are up against.
“So consider this to be your official ask,” she said. “Michelle Obama is asking, no, telling you, to do something!”
‘We don’t need four more years of bluster and chaos’’
Former President Obama, too, warned of what to expect from Trump on the campaign trail.
“The childish nicknames and crazy conspiracy theories and weird obsession with crowd size,” he said while making measuring gestures with his hands. “It just goes on and on.”
“The other day, I heard someone compare Trump to the neighbor who keeps running his leaf blower outside your window every minute of every day,” Obama said. “From a neighbor, that’s exhausting. From a president, it’s just dangerous.”
But Obama described Americans as a people growing wise to Trump’s antics.
Trump’s bag of old political tricks – spreading an “us and them” mentality – “has gotten pretty stale,” he said.
“We don’t need four more years of bluster and chaos,” Obama added. We’ve seen that movie. And we all know that the sequel’s usually worse.”
America is ready for a new chapter, Obama said, led by “President Kamala Harris.”
Obama declared Harris is ready for the job.
He said she spent her career as a prosecutor fighting for victims of sexual abuse and, fighting big banks and for-profit colleges, and as vice president, helping to cap the price of insulin and lower health care costs.
“She’s not the neighbor running the leaf blower,” he said. “She’s the neighbor rushing over to help when you need a hand.”
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/21/g-s1-18313/barack-obamas-full-remarks-democratic-national-convention
@SAMajorities4Trump