First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday stepped into the presidential election with an emotional endorsement of Hillary Clinton, hailing her as the only candidate who can be trusted as a role model for the nation’s children.
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Obama condemned “the hateful language that we hear from public figures on TV”, saying that “our motto is, when they go low, we go high”.
“So don’t let anyone ever tell you this country isn’t great, that somehow we need to make it great again because this right now is the greatest country on earth”, the first black first lady stated.
Recalling her speech in favor of husband Barack’s candidacy she told delegates tonight, ‘Remember how I told you about his character and conviction, his decency and grace. “I want a leader who will be guided by love and hope and impossibly big dreams.’ – Our First Lady Michelle Obama #StrongerTogether #DemsInPhilly”.
At the 2012 convention in Charlotte, South Carolina, Michelle said that even after four years as head of state, her husband was the same man. In one copied passage, Obama spoke of the values that she and her husband were raised with, and their desire to “pass them on to the next generation”.
Then she recalled having to shield them from a man who was questioning their father’s citizenship and from political attacks about his faith.
Michelle told the crowd, many of whom were waving placards revealing their support of the First Lady, that the election of America’s first African-American president in Obama and potentially the first female president in Hillary indicates the progress the country is making.
She described Clinton as a “champion” for children who “never takes the easy way out”. Couldn’t be more proud & our country has been blessed to have her as FLOTUS [first lady].
‘One can completely understand why people plagiarize Michelle Obama, ‘ actress Mia Farrow said after the first lady’s speech.
The 68-year- old former secretary of state would deliver her acceptance speech on Thursday, thus, becoming America’s first woman presidential candidate of a major political party.
“That is what Barack and I think about every day”, Obama said, “as we try to guide and protect our girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight”. Mrs. Obama will celebrate her 52nd birthday Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. “We don’t build up walls to keep people out”, she said during a commencement address at City College of NY this June.
Michelle Obama became the top searched speaker of the night on Google.
For Clinton, the first lady served as a powerful surrogate, and not just because her favorability ratings far exceed Clinton’s.
She also took a dig at his temperament.
Last week, during the Republican National Convention, Trump’s wife Melania delivered a speech that appeared to borrow phrases from Michelle Obama’s convention speech in 2008, drawing accusations of plagiarism. “And I thought, wow, it’s over already?”
“So, our view is that if you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’t run the White House”, Michelle Obama said from the campaign trail in the early state of Iowa in August of 2007.
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But theirs was a relationship that grew once the campaign came to a close.
