Michelle Obama for President? Her brilliant, emotional speech - Women's Agenda

Michelle Obama for President? Her brilliant, emotional speech

If only Melania Trump had waited a week or so, she could have given an even better speech than the one she shared at the Republican National Convention last week. 

That is of course if she were using material from Michelle Obama. The first lady stole the show at the National Democratic Convention today, delivering a stirring speech that brought some in the crowd to tears, and could help unite the party behind Hillary Clinton. 

Indeed her husband, President Barack Obama, was caught on camera in the crowd, mouthing the word ‘wow’. 

The First Lady said Clinton has the “guts and the grace to keep coming back and putting cracks in the highest and hardest class ceiling” until she finally break through and lifts the rest of us up with her. 

“That is the story of this country,” she said. “The story that has brought me to this stage tonight.”

It’s the story, she said, of people who have, “felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation but who kept on striving and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves and I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.”

“And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

Obama praised Clinton, declaring she “never folds under pressure” and noted how she kept going after losing the 2008 nomination to the current president. “That’s what I want. I want someone who has the proven strength to persevere. The election, she added, is not about the Democratic or Republican parties but rather about who will ultimately have “the power to shape our children for the next eight years of their lives.” She only trusts one person with that responsibility, she said. Hillary Clinton. 

Meanwhile, Obama shared her family’s journey since entering the White House eight years ago, when she wondered “what have we done” as her then seven and ten year old girls were piled into black SUVs. She said she knew then that their time in the White House would define the women they would become. 

“That is what Barack and I think about every day as we try to guide and protect our girls for the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight,” she said.

“How we urge them to ignore those who question their father’s citizenship or faith. How we insist that the hateful language they hear from public figures on TV does not represent the true spirit of this country. How we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is: ‘When they go low, we go high.’”

She said she wants a leader “who will be guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children.”

Is Hillary Clinton that leader? Michelle Obama thinks so. 

 

 

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