Barack Obama was presented on stage by his wife Michelle, whom most Democrats want to see as the President of the United States.
Former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle confirmed their status as stars of the Democratic Party with their speeches at the National Convention, calling on Americans to support Kamala Harris, the party’s candidate in the presidential elections on November 5, against Donald Trump.
The first African American president of the United States, Barack Obama, is using his significant political capital to support Harris, who also seeks to make history by becoming the first woman, the first Black, and the first Asian president of the country.
“We don’t need four more years of bullying, incompetence, and chaos. We’ve seen this movie before, and we all know that the sequel is usually worse,” emphasized Barack Obama.
“Yes, she can,” he added, adapting the slogan of his first campaign in 2008, “Yes, we can.”
“America is ready for a new chapter. America is ready for a better story. We are ready for President Kamala Harris,” he added.
Obama also attacked Trump, the Republican who succeeded him in the White House in 2017, and praised President Joe Biden, who was also his vice president.
“History will remember Joe Biden as a president who defended democracy at a time of great peril. I am proud to call him my president, but even prouder to call him my friend,” Obama stated, as the crowd responded by shouting, “We love Joe.”
Barack Obama was introduced on stage by his wife Michelle, whom most Democrats want to see as the President of the United States.
“America, hope is back,” highlighted Michelle Obama, in another reference to her husband’s campaign in 2008.
She warned that Trump would try to distort Harris’s truth, just as he “did everything he could to make people fear us (the Obamas).”
“His narrow-minded view of the world made him feel threatened by two hard-working, highly educated, successful people who just happened to be Black,” Michelle emphasized amid the warm applause of attendees.
“Who is going to tell him that the job he seeks might be one of those ‘jobs for Black people’?” she added. In his campaign, Trump has claimed that illegal immigrants crossing the US borders are “stealing” the “jobs for Black people.”
Both the billionaire himself and members of the Republican Party, as well as his supporters and internet trolls, attack Harris with racist and sexist remarks. The attacks have intensified since the US Vice President began her presidential campaign when Biden withdrew from the race for the presidency.
“It’s the same old trick,” Michelle Obama commented. “They amplify malicious, misogynistic, racist lies as a substitute for real ideas and solutions that will genuinely improve people’s lives.”
Obama also compared the energy surrounding Harris at the Democratic National Convention, as well as across the country, with that of 2008 during her husband’s first campaign.
ADVERTISEMENT“There’s something wonderful, magical in the air,” she said. “A familiar feeling that’s been buried too deep for too long. The contagious power of hope,” she assessed.
“Hope is back,” she emphasized.
In his campaign in 2008, Barack Obama used the slogan “hope.”
However, Michelle Obama warned that Harris faces a big and difficult battle ahead and called on Democratic supporters to organize and mobilize other voters.
ADVERTISEMENT“No matter how we feel today or tomorrow or the next day, it will be a tough battle (…) so we can’t become our own worst enemies,” she explained.
Before Biden withdrew from the race for the presidency, a Reuters/Ipsos poll had shown that only Michelle Obama could beat Trump in the presidential elections, gathering 50% of the voting intention compared to 39% for the Republican.
However, she has repeatedly stated that she does not intend to run for office.