“It’s an infomercial. It’s a reality show”, Obama said. All the progress we’ve made is at stake in this election.
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“As a result, they have to rely on the Obamas, both President Barack Obama as well as Michelle Obama, to campaign for Hillary Clinton”.
Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus Saturday in a fiery speech that he would take it as a “personal insult” if Black Americans don’t vote in the upcoming presidential election on November 8.
“We as a society still grapple with what it means to see powerful women”, the president said. “You want to give me a good send-off?”
During his remarks to a packed ballroom at the Washington Convention Center – where Clinton preceded him at the lectern – Obama also mocked Republican nominee Donald Trump for advancing questions about the validity of his birth certificate and for claiming that this is the worst time to be a black American.
Calling Trump, 70, as the “other guy” in the election, Obama reiterated that the NY billionaire is not qualified to be President of the United States and slammed him for not showing any interest in gaining knowledge required to make tough decisions on a daily basis in the White House. It matters. (Applause.) We’ve got to get people to vote.
Noting that while every election is billed as the most important of a lifetime, Obama said this is “true” for the 2016 race.
“My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot”, he told the Washington D.C. crowd. “Tolerance is on the ballot”, Mr. Obama said. Clinton also consistently outpolled her Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders with black voters through the primaries. “There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter, it all matters”.
Obama then directly criticized Trump’s pitch to African-American voters. Clinton has lost ground to Trump in some state and national polls in recent weeks and is looking to their first one-on-one debate a week from Monday to swing some momentum behind her.
“It’s up to us as members of the CBC and as a country to ensure we can build upon his incredible legacy by working to make sure Hillary Clinton becomes our next Commander in Chief”, he said.
Obama, who is eager to see fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton succeed him in office, told a fundraiser for her in NY that the election between his former secretary of state and Republican businessman Donald Trump should not be close.
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Donald Trump has rightly earned the reputation as a man given to weird behavior who says alarming things.
