'Who's gonna tell him?' Michelle Obama eviscerates Trump's 'Black jobs' remark in DNC speech for Harris
Source: UK Independent
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Michelle Obamas return to Chicago revived the message of hope that defined her husband Barack Obamas historic presidential campaign as she took aim at the political wrecking ball who has worked to make the country fear them.
The former first lady who remains a massively influential voice in the Democratic Party but a reluctant campaigner delivered a forceful rebuke of Donald Trumps agenda at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night.
She appeared on stage to roars from the crowd to deliver the penultimate speech at the United Center ahead of her former president husband. In one especially powerful moment, Obama eviscerated Trumps now-infamous comments about so-called Black jobs warning him that the role of commander-in-chief is very well one such job.
Whos going to tell him that the job hes currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs? she said, to laughter in the room. Its his same old con doubling down on ugly, misogynistic, racist lives as a substitute for real ideas and solutions that will actually make peoples lives better.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michelle-obama-dnc-speech-trump-black-jobs-b2599463.html
XanaDUer2
(13,211 posts)So glad she touched on failing up
C0RI0LANUS
(1,082 posts)johnnyfins
(1,175 posts)They were both wonderful. So glad Kamala and Tim have them in their corner.
TommieMommy
(894 posts)FakeNoose
(35,137 posts)What a classy and wonderful former First Lady.
I could say the same for Hillary Clinton too.
sheshe2
(86,608 posts)💙🇺🇸
twodogsbarking
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Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,863 posts)Not a word wasted - for me the most powerful part was her contrast between the other side's privileged endless whining and the rest of us for whom when things go wrong for us we arent allowed that luxury, we have to just get to work fixing them. Well she said it lightyears better than that and with such searing detail and conviction. I dont know if she was speaking to/about specifically people of color ( that passage moved a black PBS commentator to tears when they were discussing later) but it certainly was a universal enough truth that spoke to all of us whove been put in a "less than" position and had to struggle to get where we are.