“I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election”, Obama admonished at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation gala.
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Politico reporter Gabriel Debenedetti was at the New York City event where the president laid into former reality TV star trump as unqualified and not particularly interested in becoming qualified.
He said it would be a “personal insult” to his legacy if black voters did not turn out on Election Day for Hillary Clinton.
“He says we’ve got nothing else to lose”. So he can tune in. “In other breaking news, the world is round, not flat”, Obama added, echoing remarks he made during the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner, where the president mocked Trump at length as he sat in the crowd with cameras trained on him.
While Obama touted advances in the economy, healthcare and criminal justice reform under his administration he noted that “none of it’s been quick, none of it’s been easy”.
The President has in recent months urged black people to be patient and persistent, and even told the “Black Lives Matter” protesters that “yelling” at people in office would not solve the problem.
Clinton also spoke at the event, where she received the Trailblazer award for being the first female presidential candidate for a major USA political party. That doesn’t stop with my presidency.
Obama agreed that the black community has “challenges”, but, he said, “we’re not stupid”. “There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter”, he said, adding that voting in this election will be a “good sendoff”.
“If you care about our legacy, realize everything we stand for is at stake”.
US President Barack Obama on Monday blasted Republican nominee Donald Trump, saying he treats the presidential race as an “infomercial” and shows no interest in gaining “rudimentary knowledge” required to make “hard decisions” on the job.
While the Clinton campaign has focused on fueling minority turnout, hoping to mobilize any disenchanted voters who don’t feel the same enthusiasm for Clinton they did for Obama in 2008 and 2012, getting a high percentage of black voters to the cast ballots for Clinton might not be as daunting a task as it seems. (Applause.) Tolerance is on the ballot.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is headlining a Democratic Party fundraiser in NY before his final appearance at the U.N. General Assembly.
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“There’s an extra spring in my step tonight”, Obama said. “I don’t know about you guys, but I am so relieved that the whole birther thing is over”.
