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Barack Obama: ‘I’m With Hillary!’
The Democratic Party is beginning to unite. President Barack Obama has officially endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
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It was a long time coming. The current Commander-In-Chief has been itching to jump into the political fray and endorse as his successor the candidate who gave him one hell of a run 8 years ago, then served as his Secretary of State. Initially, Barack Obama chose to remain neutral out of respect for the candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has invigorated a generation of young, new voters. However, following last Tuesday’s primary voting in New Jersey, California and a host of other states, voters took Hillary Clinton over the top and gave President Obama the opportunity to go public with his pick.
Mr. Obama met with Sen. Sanders at the White House on Thursday — likely to give him a gentle nudge out of the race — but also to alert him to the forthcoming endorsement. Soon after the meeting ended, the flood gates opened. The Clinton campaign released the video of a tanned and telegenic president announcing his endorsement. “I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office,” the president said. Soon after, Vice-President Biden as well as Massachusetts’ Sen. Elizabeth Warren also followed suit and proclaimed “I’m with Hillary.”
Unlike the chaos within Republican ranks, Democrats seem on a positive path in reuniting as a unified family.
Check out the video below…its slick production and commanding stature is in stark contrast to anything Donald Trump could ever pull off on his best day.
THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY!
Unlike the chaos within Republican ranks, Democrats seem on a positive path in reuniting as a unified family. […]
Yes indeed. And you can see it all over the President's face. He's *ret* to really get this party started…lol
But on a serious note……
Pres. Obama knows this election is about more than just saving his legacy. It's about saving the future of this great nation.
Btw- Did anyone catch Elizabeth Warren's speech last night at the American Constitution Society? Wow. She literally opened up big ole can of "Whup-azz" on Trump and the entire Republican party. But I digress.
As the president expressed, Hillary is the most qualified person to succeed him in leading Our country.
I caution Dems who may now foolishly think that – given all the fires Trump will surely continue to ignite from now until November – .Hillary winning the presidency is practically in the bag. DON'T *play* yourselves.
As long as there is even One person willing to vote for that dangerous man we MUST take the threat of him becoming President very seriously.
My faith in the good judgment of most Americans who I believe are sane and reasonable people and, most of all, Loves this country…has never been stronger. But we all know….this thing ain't over till it's over.
To paraphrase what Hillary said in her speech the other night, "We've still got a lot of work to do" to make sure Trump NEVER gets anywhere near the White House.
TGIF!
'It’s time to admit Hillary Clinton is an extraordinarily talented politician"
Excerpts:
There is something about Clinton that makes it hard to appreciate the magnitude of her achievement. Or perhaps there is something about us that makes it hard to appreciate the magnitude of her achievement.
Perhaps, in ways we still do not fully appreciate, the reason no {woman} has ever broken the glass ceiling in American politics is because it's really f*cking hard to break. Before Clinton, no one even came close.
Whether you like Clinton or hate her — and plenty of Americans hate her — it's time to admit that the reason Clinton was the one to break it is because Clinton is actually really good at politics. She's just good at politics in a way we haven't learned to appreciate.
Hillary Clinton has her flaws, of course. The email server. The speeches to Goldman Sachs. And just look at her unfavorable numbers! But what really defines coverage of Clinton is confusion over how she's gotten so far without the animal charisma typical of politicians at her level. […] Ezra Klein, writer
H/T: Real Clear Politics
Umm. Put me down as one who ain't the least bit confused "over how Hillary has "gotten so far without the animal charisma typical of politicians at her level." PULeeeze.
Smart, empowered and highly self-confident White women know (just like smart, empowered and highly self-confident men and women of COLOR know) that in order to truly succeed AND advance in this (still) White man's world….certainly at the highest echelons of American society, and in particular, in American politics..you MUST be Incredibly Resilient (SEE Pres. Obama).
Repubs and their right-wing cohorts have spent the last 30-35 YEARS working overtime, throwing everything including the kitchen sink, at Bill AND Hillary Clinton. And yet, not only are the Clinton STILL standing. They're thriving….heck even multiplying (SEE Chelsea having kids now)…lol.
Repubs and their right-wing cohorts have done the same thing to Obama during his entire 8 yrs as President. "There is Nothing new under the sun." – the Bible
Haters gonna Hate. It's what they do because they have absolutely NOTHING else to offer.
And because Hate is a deadly Cancer that eats away at the heart, mind and soul……..
…in the end, Haters destroy themselves.
This is a really good video. My guy Obama looks good. I'm glad to see the party pulling it together.
Btw Elizabeth Warren put a hurting on Dondal Trump yesterday. She basically cussed him out without using any real cuss words. It was so harsh it hurt my feelings. Lol
BD, all i could do was wave my hand in witness to Warren's TOTAL beat-down of Trump and the Repubs!!! .
As they say, she "ripped" them a New one…Lol
Lol yeah Truth she went all the way IN. I was like dayum.
AND she took her own sweet time about it….Lol
Truly it was something to behold…..smh!
"The case for Hillary Clinton, by a Bernie voter"
Excerpts:
Hillary Clinton is the first woman to win a major party’s nomination for president. Whatever your political leanings, whatever your gender, whatever your perspective on the merits of feminism, this moment is a big deal. There have only been 56 other presidential elections in all of American history and none of them have included a woman candidate leading a major ticket.
I want to celebrate it. Bask in it. Grin and hoot and holler. I don’t want to wrestle, at least not yet, with the ideological tensions and contentions that I, as a Bernie Sanders supporter, know bubble just beneath the surface. Nor do I want to heed the admonitions of the anti-Obama, anti-identity politics, anti-political correctness backlash Donald Trump is fomenting and exploiting around the country, admonitions designed to make us feel guilty for even acknowledging the glass ceiling. I don’t want to process my own unarguable residue of internalized anti-feminism that makes me afraid to “play the gender card.” I just want to grab the damn card and wave it proudly.
During the early moments of the Democratic primary, my 7-year-old daughter Willa declared that she wanted Hillary Clinton to win “because she’s a girl.”
“That’s not enough of a reason,” I almost said, but then caught myself. For 270 years, maleness and whiteness was an implicit prerequisite for president. Wanting to vote for a {Qualified} woman candidate isn’t sexist; it’s an act of undoing sexism. It’s a way to symbolically support the equality of women everywhere while substantively putting into office a candidate who personally understands the needs of half of the population who have heretofore not been represented in the White House. That’s not to say that voting for a woman is an implicitly feminist act (see Sarah Palin and Carly Fiorina), nor is it to suggest that not voting for a woman is an inherently, entirely sexist decision. But our democracy has always been inextricably entwined with race and gender. We only notice it when the candidate isn’t a white man. […]
– Sally Khon, essayist and CNN political commentator