Obama said he would consider it a “personal insult” to his legacy “if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election”. That frustration has been particularly acute with black voters who tell Obama they’re saddened by the end of his presidency but aren’t enthusiastically rallying behind the candidate who would safeguard most of his work.
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Ms Clinton also made a couple of passing references to the birther controversy and was an award recipient at the dinner, picking up the organisation’s “trailblazer” award in recognition of her status as the first female presidential nominee of a major party in the United States. “You want to give me a good send-off?”
Clinton said of Obama: “Mr. President, not only do we know you are an American, you are a great American”.
“I would hope that my relationships over my 12 years in Congress and my four years here as governor of in would help carry Donald Trump’s vision to make America great again”, Pence said.
He also addressed the ways that Republican candidate Donald Trump has tried to galvanize black voters, which included a number of clear misfires – like the time the black community towards voting for him by saying, “What do you have to lose?” He acknowledged that Obama was born in America, but then incorrectly suggested that Clinton had started the conspiracy theory during the 2008 presidential contest.
Obama, during his speech, noted the struggles of black people and efforts to suppress votes. “We will educate him”.
The President warned that while his name would not be on the ballot in the November 8 elections, all of the progress that the country has made over the last eight years was on the line, CNN reported.
“I mean, he missed that whole civics lesson about slavery or Jim Crow”.
During his remarks, Obama emphasized what he believes is at stake in this election: progress. In one of his last major appearances on the world stage, Obama will try to define how his leadership has made the planet safer and more prosperous when he gives his farewell speech to the U.N. General Assembly on September 20, 2016.
On Trump’s quest to win over African-American voters, Obama quipped: “Well, we do have challenges, but we’re not stupid”. “People can not just limit the inspiration to his presidency”.
For three minutes, the president talks about the history of voting in the Black community.
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“And I am reminded of all those folks who had to count bubbles in a bar of soap, beaten trying to register voters in MS, risked everything so that they could pull that lever”. She warned that Obama’s legacy could fall into the hands of someone “whose unsafe and divisive vision for our country will drag us backwards”.
