by Admin
Aug 21, 2024
It was all cheers and laughter at the Democratic National Convention held on Tuesday night in Chicago to honor the homecoming of former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle in their bid to rally black support for their Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
President Barack Obama, began his political career as a state and federal Senator representing Illinois before he became the first Black President of the United States of America.
He opened his speech with the phrase “ It’s good to be home.” which was met with deafening and thunderous cheers from over forty thousand people in attendance at the United Center.
The former president further said “ “I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling fired up!”, his words and phrases continually expressed his nostalgic state of mind when he said “Fired up! Ready to go!”.
The 44th American president urged the people in attendance to deviate from any form of divisiveness that would bring hate and anger within the country. He paid tribute to his former vice president and the current president of the United States for being one of the best decisions he ever made to make him his successor.
He further made a plea for the current vice president and the democrat presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, making reference to all her accomplishments including the time she was as attorney general of California before she became vice president. He reminded the people of how Kamala Harris fought big pharmaceutical companies and how she helped reduce the cost of insulin and also lowered the cost of healthcare services.
Later into the convention, former President Obama took shots at his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, accused him of being a divisive leader, in his words “We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos,” he emphasizes that if Donald Trump wins in November, what would happen will be worse than before, “We have seen that movie before, and we all know that the sequel is usually worse.”.
He further accused former President Trump of being someone who only sees power as a means to an end. He said “The other day, I heard someone compare Trump to the neighbor who keeps running his leaf blower outside your window every minute of every day,” Obama said to laughs. “Now, from a neighbor, that’s exhausting. The truth is, Donald Trump sees power as nothing more than a means to his ends.”
In his closing remarks former President Obama called for the United States to be a “force for good” that drives toward the betterment of the world.
He further asked the US government to drop the agenda of being the “police of the world” he also said, “We can’t eradicate every cruelty and injustice in the world, but America can be, and must be, a force for good: discouraging conflict, fighting disease, promoting human rights, protecting the planet from climate change.”