United States President Barack Obama campaigned for former first lady, Hilary Clinton for the first time at a campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina. He said that there is no better person to succeed him than Hilary Clinton.
Vintage Obama was bombastic as he came out smoking from all barrels, wiping Republican candidate, Donald Trump for his inexperience and hate campaign, saying that the only plan he has to be president is to build a wall. Obama reminded Americans that everybody came to America from somewhere.
It was a fiery speech you don’t see everyday. Obama said that he was ready to pass the baton to Hilary because he knows that she can do the job.
It is unusual to see a president that loose and relaxed, entertaining the crowd with his extraordinary speech laced with humour.
The state of North Carolina is a swing state and that maybe why it was chosen. It is a working class state, which Obama lost to Mit Romney in 2012 after winning it in 2008.
Below is some parts of the Speech:
“Hillary’s got her share of critics – that’s what happens when you’re somebody that’s actually in the arena. That’s what happens when you’ve fought for what you believe in,” Obama says. “She never stopped caring, she never stopped crying. We’re a young country, so we like new things, and I benefitted from that culture, let’s face it.”
“But sometimes we take somebody who’s been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted,” Obama continues. “As a consequence, that means that sometimes Hillary doesn’t get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true, and she’s been in politics for the same reason I have.”
“We weren’t born with a silver spoon. And we know that behind all the division and sometimes angry rhetoric of this election year… Americans are good, and they are generous, and they are hard-working, and they’ve got an awful lot of common sense.”
“I believe in you, the American people, more than ever,” Obama says. “I have run my last campaign and I couldn’t be prouder of the things we have done together, but I am ready to pass the baton, and I know that Hilary Clinton is going to take it!”
‘The other side has nothing to offer you’
“You are going to have a very clear choice to make about two fundamentally different visions of where America should go,” Obama says.
“This is a choice between whether we are going to cling to some imaginary past, or whether we’re going to reach for the future,” Obama says. “This is about whether we have an America that works for everybody, or just a few people. And Hillary is not somebody who fears the future. She believes that it is ours to shape. The same way it’s always been. Hillary Understands that we make our own destiny as long as we’re together. As long as we thin k of ourselves not as a collection of individuals or a collection of different interests or a collection of different states, but as the United States.”
“If your concern is working people, then this is not a choice,” Obama continues. “If what you care is, who’s going to be fighting for ordinary folks who are fighting for a better life for themselves and their children, then I don’t know how you vote for the guy who’s against the minimum wage, against unions… and against all the things that working families care about.”
“If you’re voting for the other team, it’s not because of the economy – you’ve gotta be clear about that,” Obama continues. “Even the guys on the other side don’t know what he’s talking about! They really don’t! You ask them and they’re, like, ‘I dunno.’”
“‘There has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton’
“Everybody’s got an opinion, but nobody actually knows the job until you’re sitting behind the desk,” Obama says, before an aside clearly directed at Donald Trump.. “Everybody can tweet, but nobody actually knows what it takes to do the job until you’ve sat behind the desk.”
“I mean, Sasha tweets, but she doesn’t think that she thereby should be sitting behind the desk!”
“That’s the truth.”
“But I can tell you this: Hillary Clinton has been tested,” Obama continues. “She has seen, up close, what’s involved in making those decisions. She has participated in the meetings in which those decisions have been made. She’s seen the consequences of things working well, and things not working well. And there has never been any man – or woman – more qualified for this office than Hilary Clinton. Ever.”
“And that’s the truth. That’s the truth.”
“I’m fired up!” Obama says. “Hillary got me fired up!”
“I’m here for a simple reason,” Obama continues. “I’m here today because I believe in Hilary Clinton, and I want you to help elect her to be the next president of the United States of America! That’s why I’m here.”
“We went up to New Hampshire after our primary in 2008,” Obama says. “We went to Unity, New Hampshire, just in case people missed the point… and we had gone through what was one of the longest toughest primaries in history – and primaries are always tough, because you’re arguing with your friends, instead of the people you disagree with.”
“As much as I had admired her, when we served together in the Senate, I came away from that primary admiring her even more,” Obama continues. “Just how smart she was and just how prepared she was, especially since I had to debate her a couple of dozen times. And let’s be clear – she beat me!”
“You don’t have to rub it in,” he says, turning around to face a laughing Clinton.
“She beat me at least the first half, and then I could barely play her to a draw. I always had to be on my game because she knew every fact – she knew every detail,” Obama says. “We may have gone toe to toe from coast to coast, but we stood shoulder-to-shoulder for the ideals we share.”
“I see a leader with heart, depth and humility. Somebody who in spite of the obstruction he’s faced still reaches for common ground and common purpose,” Clinton says, acknowledging that despite their fierce primary battle for the Democratic nomination in 2008, she was “proud to endorse him and campaign for him.”
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