'This country IS great': Michelle Obama jabs at Trump; heralds progress that means she can 'wake up in a White House built by slaves' and says 'I'm wi

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[h=2]'This country IS great': Michelle Obama jabs at Trump; heralds progress that means she can 'wake up in a White House built by slaves' and says 'I'm with her' in rousing speech backing Hillary[/h]

NEW Michelle Obama took to the Democrat Convention Stage on Monday night to attack Donald Trump after starting with a pleasant story about her children. Mrs Obama, who entered the arena wearing a blue custom made Christian Siriano dress, reminisce about her early days at the White House, when Sasha and Malia were just 'bubbly girls,' not the 'poised young women' they are now. She remembered having to shield them from a man who was questioning their father's citizenship or his faith. Without naming him, her ire was aimed at Donald Trump. 'In this election and every election it's about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives,' Obama said. She then pivoted again and made the case for Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, who the first lady had not yet officially endorsed. 'I trust Hillary,' Michelle Obama said.

 

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[h=1]'I trust Hillary!' Michelle Obama champions a Clinton presidency during DNC speech[/h]

By NIKKI SCHWAB, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA and FRANCESCA CHAMBERS, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN PHILADELPHIA, PA
PUBLISHED: 03:19, 26 July 2016 | UPDATED: 03:47, 26 July 2016

 

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First lady Michelle Obama's convention speech Monday night began as a pleasant story about her teenage daughters who arrived at the White House as children.
The niceties soon turned into a political attack on the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, who Obama did not name as she directed her ire at him.
Obama said she's had to explain to her girls that the 'hateful rhetoric on TV does not represent the true spirit of this country....that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully we don't stoop to their level.'
'No our motto is,' when they 'go low, we go high,' the first lady said.

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First lady Michelle Obama's convention speech Monday night began as a pleasant story about her teenage daughters who arrived at the White House as children

Obama began her speech by reminiscing about the early days at the White House and her first speech at a Democratic National Convention eight years ago.
Recalling her speech in favor of husband Barack's candidacy she told delegates tonight, 'Remember how I told you about his character and conviction, his decency and grace.
'I also told you about our daughters, how they are the heart of our hearts, the center of our world.'
Obama said she remembers when Sasha and Malia were just 'bubbly girls,' not the 'poised young women' they are now. She shared a memory of her daughters driving away for the first time in black SUVs surrounded by big men with guns.
Then she recalled having to shield them from a man who was questioning their father's citizenship and from political attacks about his faith.
'In this election and every election it's about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives,' Obama said as she pivoted and made the case for Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
'I trust Hillary,' Obama said as she gave her fellow first lady her endorsement. 'Only one person who I believe is truly qualified to be President of the United States, and that is our friend Hillary Clinton.
The first lady made an impression on many with her Let's Move programming and her White House vegetable garden, which was planted in response to the country's obesity epidemic.

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She's no stranger to the convention stage. Obama made a case for her husband in both 2008 and 2012. Her first DNC speech got a second look last week when Melania Trump was accused of copying sections of it

She's no stranger to the convention stage.
Obama made a case for her husband in both 2008 and 2012, but it was that first speech, delivered in Denver, that got a second look last week.
Melania Trump uttered very similar phrases when she gave her address in Cleveland last week and was accused of 'cribbing' the first lady's 2008 speech.
Her speechwriter later took the fall.

 

[ScottL]

Here is the full speech. Like her or not she is a hell of a speaker. The speech was very effective in uniting the crowd and likely pushed a few voters toward Hillary who saw it on TV. Pretty remarkable as the two women for years disliked each other.

 

[Willie99]

today she's goes back to inciting racial violence

if the fucking idiots spoke in powerful and glowing terms every day, we'd have a much better world today

but they can't, they have to keep people down, they have to divide, they need racism for their political survival, so they preach hate every day save for one every four years

 

[vitterd]

A great speech

 

[Willie99]

what's with Michelle and slavery?

who the fuck still talks about slavery?

and why do you think they love to talk about slavery?




the lemmings even talk about slavery when they want to make $ 15 an hour at McDonald's, so fucking weird

 

[MantisToboggan]

Michelle and her siblings are part of the first generation of her family to be born with all of their rights. Think about that for a minute. Probably going to be some, understandably, raw feelings about race.