Former US President and former First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama opened the Democratic Convention in Chicago on Tuesday evening. Here are 5 highlights from their powerful speeches in front of an already winning crowd.
“Hope is back” – Michelle Obama
“There’s some wonderful magic in the air, isn’t there? We feel it in this arena, but it spreads throughout this country we love. A familiar feeling has been buried deep for a long time. You know what I’m talking about. “The contagious power of hope,” said Michelle Obama.
“America, hope is coming back,” he added.
The hope it evokes echoes an iconic poster of Barack Obama that an artist designed during the 2008 presidential campaign.
“Black jobs” – Michelle Obama
“You see, his narrow and limited worldview terrorized the existence of two successful, hardworking, educated black people,” Michelle Obama said.
“I want to know. Who will tell him [à Donald Trump] Could his love status be one of these “black jobs”?
He was referring to comments Trump made during his last debate with Joe Biden. The billionaire pointed out that Biden’s immigration policies have caused black Americans to lose their jobs.
“Yes she can” – Barack Obama
“Yes, she can!”
This is what Barack Obama said to the crowd, referring to his old slogan.
“A strange obsession with crowd sizes” – Barack Obama
“There are childish nicknames, crazy conspiracy theories. This strange obsession with crowd size,” Barack Obama joked from behind the lectern.
“The other day I heard someone compare Trump to the neighbor who runs the leaf blower through the window every second of every day. Coming from the neighbor is tiring. Coming from the president is dangerous.
“The sequel is usually bad” – Barack Obama
“Donald Trump wants us to believe that this country is irreparably divided. There’s us and there’s them. Real Americans who openly support him, and foreigners, don’t. He wants you to believe that if you give him the power to deport people, you’ll be rich and safe.” likes [de son administration] In place,” declared Barack Obama.
“We don’t need four more years of arrogance, incompetence and confusion. We’ve seen this movie before and we all know that a sequel can be worse than the original. America is ready for a new chapter. America is ready for a new story. We are ready for leader Kamala Harris,” he added to the cheering crowd.
