Obama to black voters: 'You want to give me a good sendoff? Go vote'
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President Barack Obama delivered a stirring speech at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner in Washington on Saturday night, saying he’d be offended if African-American voters don’t turn out and vote for Hillary Clinton in November.
“I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election,” Obama said. “You want to give me a good sendoff? Go vote.”
“If you care about our legacy, realize everything we stand for is at stake — all the progress we’ve made is at stake in this election,” Obama said. “My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot. Tolerance is on the ballot.”
The president, whose historic elections in 2008 and 2012 were propelled by a record turnout of black voters, urged attendees to do the same for Clinton.
“Hope is on the ballot,” he said. “And fear is on the ballot, too.” The president’s remarks came a day after Republican nominee Donald Trump publicly ended the “birther” conspiracy he had kept up for five years, finally admitting Obama was born in the United States. “There’s an extra spring in my step tonight,” Obama joked. “I don’t know about you guys, but I am so relieved that the whole ‘birther’ thing is over. I mean, ISIL, North Korea, poverty, climate change — none of those things weighed on my mind like the validity of my birth certificate. And to think that with just 124 days to go, under the wire, we got that resolved. I mean, that’s a boost for me in the home stretch. In other breaking news, the world is round, not flat. Lord.”
Obama skewered Trump’s assertion that African-Americans are worse off under the president’s administration than ever before.
“You may have heard Hillary’s opponent in this election say that there’s never been a worse time to be a black person,” Obama said. “I mean, he missed that whole civics lesson about slavery and Jim Crow.” Obama also ripped the pitch Trump made last month to black voters.
“What the hell do you have to lose?” Trump said at a rally before a predominantly white crowd in Ohio on Aug. 22. “Give me a chance. I’ll straighten it out.” “He says we got nothing left to lose,” Obama said, “so we might as well support somebody who has fought against civil rights and fought against equality, and who has shown no regard for working people for most of his life. Well, we do have challenges, but we’re not stupid.”
Clinton also spoke at the event, warning that a Trump presidency would undo the progress Obama has made.
“We need ideas, not insults. Real plans to help struggling Americans in communities that have been left out and left behind — not prejudice and paranoia,” Clinton said. “We can’t let Barack Obama’s legacy fall into the hands of someone who doesn’t understand that, whose dangerous and divisive vision for our country will drag us backwards.”
She also mocked the birther issue while addressing Obama.
“Mr. President, not only do we know you are an American,” she said, “you are a great American.”
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Or nah
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? that dude
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? Hussein
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hahahahahahaha lololololo hahaha this ? !!!! oh ? black people we are ? these democratic ? think that they own us
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Eat a ? obama. ? hillary! She was shading the ? out of you during her run, and you hired that ? . ? trump to the fullest too, but hillary can lick my sweaty ? .
You shouldve put your cards behind bernie instead of backing another shill like yourself, ole barry o. Hillary is not progression. Shes status quo typical political ? as usual, with a long list of failures, lies, and sociopathic behavior to back. -
Go ask the ? community
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I said it before and I'll say it again Obama will go down as one of the biggest sellouts in black history
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yall are idiots
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“I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election,
Lmaaaaaaaooooooooooooo
Hold up , he still has less than 3 months left in office. I heard that this Hoe ? is clutch... he might pull something out his ass in the next 80 so days ....
Boy, blk ppl are goofy especially . That massacre tho... -
"Progress is on the ballot"
"Tolerance is on the l ballot"
I'm in. Obeezy the GOAT will be missed when he's gone. -
That muthafucka has some nerve. smmfh
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He's right
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Hillary being the lesser of two evils is an understatement, ? need to stop.
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Thing is, none of us disagree with it. We all understand he's right. But, a ton of us just won't accept that not voting for HIllz is "disrespect" to him, even if she's running against New Adolf.
Point is, HIllary be on ? , and I'm not blindly supporting that ? just to say I like Obama. You good either way with me Obeezie, but ? her. -
Us blindly voting for Hilarry despite her tainted track record as a polotician and with blk ppl in the u.s, haiti, and hondouras is a blemish to his legacy, really????
and not him turning his back on us... while we got warped back to 1955...
And why he asking blk ppl? He's the president of all america.... he needs to ask all of america... -
Now he wants to single US out, go tell that ? to ? and Mexicans they benefitted the most from your tap dancing ass presidency
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this ? is a ? freak show but it's all about defeating Trump..
this election is a joke but u gotta vote for the necessary evil.. Hillary > Trump... every vote counts and we should all be more active in politics, get in the know and start controlling these more... It's this way because the ppl have allowed it... we are leaving this to a new generation of kids, and whether u have kids or not, u likely have some little ones in ur fam u care about and want better for... one way to assure that is to vote... -
He's right about at least one thing: From a policy perspective Hillary is much closer to Obama than is Trump.
It's crazy to be an Obama supporter and considering voting for Trump. -
How about black people ask this ? bama for one more favor and commune the sentences of the tens of thousands of non-violent black drug offenders that were arrested while this ? was in office, I'm literally heated reading this ? , this ? has a lot of nerve.
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...well let the personal insulting begin. The nerve of this guy.
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Will do my OG.
The Goat President, and i dont wanna hear none of you Umar Johnson pom pom ? . -
Ill leave this here.
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This ? done bumped his head.
We voted for him TWICE at the tune of 90+%. An what did we get for our loyalty??
Close your eyes and tell me what you see.....
The following is a brief list of all the ? he did for everyone else.
-Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: He made this bill his first act of business when he came into office in 2009 for WOMEN. It seeks to close the gap between male & female pay for the same job.
-Illegal Immigrants: He signed an executive order (DACA) Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It essentially gives illegal immigrants a pass to stay in the country if they're under 16 years old. He expanded this act later on in his presidency for ALL illegal immigrants who snuck into the country before 2010. He also tried, unsuccessfully to implement the Dream Act. Which would have given illegal immigrants work authorizations, social security numbers, and drivers licenses.
-? : He came out early on (first President in U.S history) to endorse ? marriage. This led to the Supreme Court legalizing ? marriage in all 50 states. he lent his political capital to this issue, at the risk of alienating core constituencies.
-Legal Immigrants: He increased the number of H1B visas for lucrative jobs in the technology sector. Even though the unemployment rate is disproportionately high for African Americans, in comparison to other minority groups.
-Cops: Blue Alert Bill: He signed this bill as a reaction to the Gavin Long, and Micah Johnson police (retaliatory) shootings. It gives police departments across America alerts whenever a cop goes missing. However, this ? was quieter than a rat ? on cotton condemning pig shootings of unarmed black men.
I could go on, but you get the point. An now this ? wants us to vote blindly for Crooked Hillary, to preserve his legacy??
Well, prepare to be "offended". -
^^^ very impartial there , highlighting policies you dislike (so of which are good) rather than weighing the good with the bad.
The way some of you act like we have been living in somalia for the last 8 years. -
Obama has supported the expansion (to other cities) of this, and he deserves credit for it. Arguably, something like that is what blacks most need.