On August 21, the national news agency CNN published on the internet the following news article entitled “Takeaways from the second night of the Democratic National Convention” written by CNN staff reporters Eric Bradner and Arit John:
“Barack Obama and Michelle Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, delivering back-to-back speeches that eviscerated Donald Trump and urged Americans to reject the Republican nominee once and for all.
The former first lady, in one of the most memorable speeches in convention history, called on Democrats to drop the “Goldilocks complex” and work hard to elect Vice President Kamala Harris.
EDITOR’S NOTE: You can read the transcript of Michelle Obama’s speech in the postsript below.
“We cannot indulge our anxieties about whether this country will elect someone like Kamala, instead of doing everything we can to get someone like Kamala elected,” she said.
Then, the former president — in a speech that evoked memories of his emergence into the American political consciousness and his own winning campaigns — said that the “vast majority of us do not want to live in a country that’s bitter and divided.”
“We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos. We have seen that movie before, and we all know that the sequel is usually worse,” Obama said.
Their speeches closed a night during which Democrats had sought to introduce Harris in more personal terms to Americans who are only now learning about the vice president, just a month after she ascended to the top of the party’s 2024 ticket.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff told the story of their relationship and why his children call the vice president “Momala.” Maryland Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks explained how Harris came to be someone she considered a friend and mentor.
It set the stage for the two closing nights of the convention: Wednesday night, when the party’s vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will take the stage, and Thursday, when Harris will close the gathering as the final sprint to Election Day begins.”
[Following are the 8 major takeaways from the second night of the Democratic National Convention]:
- KIDS WITH FUNNY NAMES
“Twenty years after Barack Obama, then a state senator, burst onto the political scene with his 2004 DNC speech, he delivered its bookend.
“This convention has always been pretty good to kids with funny names who believe in a country where anything is possible,” Obama said.
The 44th president’s remarks were filled with references to his own campaigns — including familiar calls-and-responses the “Yes we can” chants once so omnipresent at Obama rallies now returning as “Yes she can.”
It’s no wonder why: Obama remains so popular with American voters that even Trump now passes on opportunities for confrontation with the former president. He told CNN’s Kristen Holmes on Tuesday that while he has differences with Obama on trade policy, “I happen to like him. I respect him, and I respect his wife.”
Obama took swings at Trump, to be sure — trying to deflate the figure that has so dominated American politics since Obama left the stage.
“Here is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago. There’s the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes,” Obama said.
But he also urged Democrats not to direct similar rancor at regular Americans.
“If a parent or grandparent occasionally says something that makes us cringe, we don’t automatically assume they’re bad people,” he said. “We recognize that the world is moving fast — that they need time and maybe a little encouragement to catch up. Our fellow citizens deserve the same grace we hope they’ll extend to us. That’s how we can build a true Democratic majority, one that can get things done.” “
- BARACK OBAMA’S FAMILY STORY
“The former president also put a new twist on the familiar story of his own family — comparing his grandmother, a White woman from Kansas who helped raise him, and his mother-in-law, a Black woman from the south side of Chicago who died earlier this year.
“They knew what was true. They knew what mattered,” Obama said. “Things like honesty and integrity, kindness and hard work. They weren’t impressed with braggarts or bullies. They didn’t think putting other people down lifted you up or made you strong. They didn’t spend a lot of time obsessing about what they didn’t have.”
Then, he drew the connection to Harris — pointing to her Indian mother and Jamaican father, who both immigrated to the United States.
“Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, or somewhere in between, we have all had people like that in our lives — people like Kamala’s parents, who crossed oceans because they believed in the promise of America,” he said.”
- HOPE MAKES A COMEBACK
“Few people have as much of a hold on the hearts and minds of the Democratic base as Michelle Obama, who was greeted with one of the loudest, longest rounds of applause as she took the stage in her hometown Tuesday.
“Hope is making a comeback,” she said, echoing the theme of her husband’s 2008 presidential run.
The former first lady spoke to the optimism that Harris has created since she became the Democratic nominee and described her as the best choice to lead the nation, based on both her experience and her character.
“My girl Kamala Harris is more than ready for this moment,” Michelle Obama said. “She is one of the most qualified people ever to seek the office of the presidency, and she is one of the most dignified.”
She spoke of the middle class backgrounds and values she shared with Harris and painted a sharp contrast with Trump, noting that they would never “benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth.”
- WARNINGS OF ‘FOOLISHNESS’
“The key role Michelle Obama played Tuesday was to urge the audience to keep their eyes on the prize. Obama told Democrats to avoid the “foolishness” of waiting to be asked to act and made a personal appeal for everyone to “do something” between now and Election Day.
“Yes, Kamala and Tim are doing great now. We’re loving it. They pack arenas across the country. Folks are energized. We are feeling good,” she said. “But remember, there are still so many people who are desperate for a different outcome.”
She laid out the stakes, and the challenges, facing Harris as a Black woman seeking higher office in starker terms than any other convention speaker to date. Obama alluded to the years Trump spent spreading the false, racist birther conspiracy theory against her husband.
“We know folks are going to do everything they can to distort her truth,” she said of Harris. “My husband and I, sadly, know a little something about this. For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us.”
She also took a jab at Trump’s June debate claim that migrants are stealing “Black jobs.”
“Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs,” she said.”
- EMHOFF INTRODUCES ‘MOMALA’
“Emhoff, the second gentleman, sought to show America a personal side of his wife — telling stories about how they met and how she became “Momala” to his two children.
Emhoff, an attorney who left his law firm after Harris was elected vice president, stepped into the role he’s seeking as America’s dad — one who has a group chat with boyhood friends and a fantasy football league (team name, Nirvana, “yes, after the band,” he said) with law school buddies.
He said he’d gotten her phone number and called at 8:30 a.m. He left a rambling voice mail that he instantly regretted — and Harris saved that voicemail. “She makes me listen to it on every anniversary,” he said.
Still, he said, she called back, and the two talked and laughed for an hour. “You know that laugh. I love that laugh,” he said.
Emhoff’s up-front role for Harris was a vivid contrast with the Republican National Convention. Two of Trump’s sons spoke, but they did not delve deeply into personal stories about their father. His wife, Melania Trump, did not speak at all, and has kept her involvement in his third presidential run to a minimum.
But Emhoff’s speech wasn’t purely personal anecdotes. He also described Harris as tough.
“Here’s the thing about joyful warriors: They’re still warriors. And Kamala is as tough as it comes,” he said.”
- GOP SPEAKERS SHOW UP FOR HARRIS
“Democrats weren’t just working to appeal to their own party. Throughout the night, the DNC featured former Republicans making the case for independents and Trump critics to vote for Harris.
One of the prime-time speaking slots went to Mayor John Giles of Mesa, Arizona, a self-declared lifelong Republican who said the Biden-Harris administration had delivered results for his conservative community.
“I have an urgent message for the majority of Americans who, like me, are in the political middle: John McCain’s Republican Party is gone, and we don’t owe a damn thing to what’s been left behind,” Giles said. “So let’s turn the page. Let’s put country first.”
Giles’ speech capped off a series of appearances Tuesday by Republicans, or people who’d left the party, rallying support for Harris.
In a short video, three former Trump voters said they believed the former president didn’t respect the Constitution and criticized his felony convictions. On stage, Kyle Sweetser – a Nikki Haley supporter who plans to vote for Harris – said that he voted for Trump three times before growing concerned about his tariff policies.
“Costs for construction workers like me were starting to soar,” Sweetser said. “I realized Trump wasn’t for me.”
Stephanie Grisham, a former Trump White House press secretary and chief of staff to former First Lady Melania Trump, described herself as a “true believer” who spent her holidays at Mar-a-Lago. But she resigned on January 6, 2021, after Trump failed to immediately move to stop his supporters from attacking the US Capitol.
Grisham used her remarks to condemn Trump’s behind closed doors, telling that audience that he mocks his supporters in private and has called them “basement dwellers.”
“He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth,” she said.”
- ‘THIS IS NOT A RADICAL AGENDA”
“Since his 2016 presidential campaign, Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders has maintained a strong following among young and progressive voters – the same voters Harris will need in November.
Sanders used his remarks Tuesday to endorse what the Biden administration has accomplished over the past three and a half years, while also laying out a list of proposals for the next Democratic administration: campaign finance reform, protections for unions, improving health care access and lowering drug costs, and improving public education.
“Let us be clear: This is not a radical agenda,” Sanders said. “But, let me tell you what a radical agenda is. And that is Trump’s Project 2025.”
For the vice president, Sanders’ remarks weren’t just about rehashing how the administration navigated the pandemic.
Harris has spent much of her fledgling campaign trying to distance herself from the progressive campaign she ran in the 2020 Democratic primary, specifically her support for “Medicare for All” and a ban on fracking.
That pivot to the center risks angering or disappointing the left, making endorsements from Sanders – and Monday night’s remarks from New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – that much more important.”
- ‘VP HARRIS, GOVERNOR WALZ’
“Democrats interrupted the party’s convention Tuesday night to throw a party.
The roll call, a tradition of political conventions, was turned into an hourlong, prime-time mash-up led by DJ Cassidy of songs associated with each state, while representatives from the states delivered short speeches as they cast their delegates’ votes for the vice president.
Some of the song picks were by musicians who are synonymous with their home states, including Eminem (Michigan), Prince (Minnesota), Bruce Springsteen (New Jersey), Jay-Z and Alicia Keys (New York) and Petey Pablo (North Carolina).
A few were less obvious. (Did you know, for example, that Portugal. The Man is from Alaska?)
Harris’ home state of California got several songs — a rap mix of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur and Kendrick Lamar. Gov. Gavin Newsom cast the state’s votes for Harris to the tune of Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”
But Georgia stole the show. Lil Jon started the party by rapping “Turn Down for What.” Then, as the track to “Get Low” played, Lil Jon tweaked the words. “To the window, to the wall” became “VP Harris, Governor Walz.”
It was an hour of music and vibes with no actual consequence. Democrats conducted their roll call virtually two weeks ago; Harris was already officially the nominee. Tuesday night’s roll call was purely ceremonial.
“This roll call is unapologetic earnestness and unironic cringe without one ounce of shame. It’s perfect,” Amanda Litman, a Democratic strategist and writer, said on social media.
It ended with Democrats cutting from the roll call to a live video of Harris and Walz stepping onstage a 90-minute drive north, in Milwaukee, where they held a rally Tuesday night.
“I’ll see you in two days, Chicago,” Harris said.”
The link to the full, unedited CNN story with photos is here:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/21/politics/takeaways-dnc-day-2/index.html
GOV. MLG’S UNREMARKABLE PRIME TIME SPEECH SHORT AND SWEET
Starting at 9:58 P.M. Eastern Time, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham took to the national stage to deliver “prime time” speech to the Democratic National Convention. The speech lasted for 4 minutes and 22 seconds. The speech was about health care and she made only a brief reference to “reproductive rights”. You can listen to the entire speech here:
Watch: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham full speech at DNC convention (indystar.com)
Notwithstanding the shortness of the speech, Governor Lujan Grisham gave emphatic backing of Vice President Kamala Harris’ record on health care while blasting Republicans for trying to restrict abortion access. The democratic governor said Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance would, if elected, seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act and eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions. Lujan Grisham said this:
“Either these guys don’t get it, or they don’t care.”
Lujan Grisham described access to affordable health care as a personal issue, citing her family’s struggles with the health issues of her sister, Kimberly, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor when she was 2 years old and died at age 21.
Lujan Grisham cited Vice President Harris’ past efforts as California’s attorney general to hold drug companies and hospitals accountable for rising prices. She also touted her own efforts, as a member of Congress, to lower prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients.
The governor sought to contrast those efforts to Trump’s record on health care issues, as the former president pledged to repeal the landmark 2010 health care law and replace it with a new law. Lujan Grisham said this:
“You know what Donald Trump delivered? Junk plans, higher premiums and abortion bans. … And if you don’t think a second term would be worse, then I’ve got a bunch of Trump Steaks to sell you.”
The “Trump Steaks” remark was an attempt at politcal humor that fell flat and was a reference to Trump’s failed effort to launch a line of steaks over 15 years ago.
Most important, she did not flub her lines, got on and got off quickly as ordered and landed a couple of attacks on Trump/Vance.
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS
Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s convention speech will go down as one of the most eloquent convention speeches in history. The speech even had staunch MAGA Trump news commentators pointing out the speech was indeed the highlight of the evening and marveling how it hit all the high notes. It’s no wonder that Democrats early on after President Biden withdrew whished that somehow she would become the nominee of the party.
Governor Lujan Grisham’s speech was short, sweet, it will not be remembered but she did not flub her lines, and she did not embarrass the state, and it can be deemed a success. There is little doubt the convention speech by Governor Lujan Grisham has raised her national political profile and will contribute to speculation about a possible federal Cabinet post. After President Joe Biden withdrew from the race the governor was among 9 candidates asked to undergo vetting as Harris mulled over her running mate.
While Harris ultimately picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice-presidential nominee, the vetting of Lujan Grisham for vice president solidified the personal connection she has with Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris also officiated Lujan Grisham’s wedding to Manny Cordova in May 2022, and the Vice President traveled to Albuquerque later that year to drum up support for the governor’s reelection campaign.
WHERE WAS MARTIN, BEN RAY AND GABE?
New Mexico Democrats Senior Senator Martin Heinrich, Senator Ben Ray Lujan and Congressman Gabe Vasquez are all designated delegates, as is Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, to the 2024 National Democratic Convention. Notwithstanding Senators Heinrich, Lujan and Congressman Vasquez are not attending the convention. However, New Mexico US Representatives Melanie Stansbury and Teresa Leger Fernandez are attending the convention and were front and center along with Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham during the roll call announcing the State’s convention delegate vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Political pundits have been very quick to point out the absence of Heinrich, Lujan and Vasquez from the convention. Both Heinrich and Vasquez are viewed by some as in tight reelection bids, while Lujan is not. The national political news outlet Roll Call offered this explanation for federal candidates distancing themselves from the national party ticket:
At a time of decreased ticket-splitting between the presidential race and congressional races, there’s a bipartisan fear of being coupled with the national party and being subsequently dragged down by the top of the ticket. So party strategists unofficially recommend candidates running in competitive districts stay home and stay away from the conventions.
Bullish on candidates who are bearish about Chicago attendance – Roll Call
Senior Senator Martin Heinrich’s absence from the National Democratic convention is difficult accept. His failure to show more likely than not offended more than a few within the New Mexico delegation seeing as he is the state’s Senior Senator. He should have been there to lead. Speculation is Heinrich was offended by not being given time to speak during the national convention because his reelection loss would contribute to the Democrats losing the Senate majority, yet Governor Lujan Grisham was given time, and she is now a lame duck.
Least anyone forgets, it was reported in July that Senior Senator Heinrich, who is up for reelection to a third term, became the third Democratic US Senator to publicly call on President Joe Biden to leave the presidential race. Heinrich said this at the time:
“This moment in our nation’s history calls for a focus that is bigger than any one person. The return of Donald Trump to the White House poses an existential danger to our democracy. We must defeat him in November, and we need a candidate who can do that. While the decision to withdraw from the campaign is President Biden’s alone, I believe it is in the best interests of our country for him to step aside. … By passing the torch, he would secure his legacy as one of our nation’s greatest leaders and allow us to unite behind a candidate who can best defeat Donald Trump and safeguard the future of our democracy.
There is little doubt that Polling conducted by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and GOP nominee Nella Domenici’s campaign showing her in a margin-of-error race with Heinrich, has made Heinrich skittish to the point he does not even want to show up to the Democratic National Convention to see the nomination of the replacement of the person he help push out of the race. Heinrich’s “call for a focus that is bigger than any one person” reeks of self-preservation.
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POSTSCRIPT
Former Fist Lady Michelle Obama’s 2024 DNC speech
“Hello, Chicago!
Something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn’t it? Not just here in this arena, but spreading all across this country we love, a familiar feeling that’s been buried too deep for too long. You know what I’m talking about? It’s the contagious power of hope.
The anticipation, the energy, the exhilaration of once again being on the cusp of a brighter day. The chance to vanquish the demons of fear, division, and hate that have consumed us, and continue pursuing the unfinished promise of this great nation — the dream that our parents and grandparents fought and died and sacrificed for. America, hope is making a comeback.
To be honest, I’m realizing that until recently, I have mourned the dimming of that hope.
Maybe you’ve experienced the same feelings — a deep pit in my stomach, a palpable sense of dread about the future.
And for me, that mourning has been mixed with my own personal grief. The last time I was in Chicago was to memorialize my mother —the woman who showed me the meaning of hard work, humility, and decency, who set my moral compass high and showed me the power of my voice.
I still feel her loss so profoundly. I wasn’t even sure I’d be steady enough to stand before you tonight.
But my heart compelled me to be here because of the sense of duty I feel to honor her memory, and to remind us all not to squander the sacrifices our elders made to give us a better future.
You see, my mom, in her steady, quiet way, lived out that striving sense of hope every day of her life. She believed that all children — all people — have value, that anyone can succeed if given the opportunity.
She and my father didn’t aspire to be wealthy. In fact, they were suspicious of those who took more than they needed. They understood that it wasn’t enough for their kids to thrive if everyone else around us was drowning. So my mother volunteered at the local school, she always looked out for the other kids on our block.
She was glad to do the thankless, unglamorous work that for generations, has strengthened the fabric of this nation.
The belief that if you do unto others, if you love thy neighbor, if you work and scrape and sacrifice, it will pay off — if not for you, then maybe for your children or your grandchildren, those values have been passed on through family farms and factory towns, through tree-lined suburbs and crowded tenements, through prayer groups and National Guard units and social studies classrooms.
Those were the values my mother poured into me until her very last breath.
Kamala Harris and I built our lives on those same foundational values. Even though our mothers grew up an ocean apart, they shared the same belief in the promise of this country.
That’s why her mother moved here from India at 19.
It’s why she taught Kamala about justice, about our obligation to lift others up, about our responsibility to give more than we take.
She’d often tell her daughter, “Don’t sit around and complain about things — do something!”
So with that voice in her head, Kamala went out and worked hard in school, graduating from an HBCU, earning her law degree at a state school, and then she went on to work for the people.
Fighting to hold lawbreakers accountable and strengthen the rule of law, fighting to get folks better wages, cheaper prescription drugs, a good education, decent health care, childcare and elder care.
From a middle-class household, she worked her way up to become Vice President of the United States of America.
Kamala Harris is more than ready for this moment.
She is one of the most qualified people ever to seek the office of the presidency, and she is one of the most dignified — a tribute to her mother, to my mother, and probably to your mother too, the embodiment of the stories we tell ourselves about this country.
Her story is your story, it’s my story, it’s the story of the vast majority of Americans trying to build a better life.
Kamala knows, like we do, that regardless of where you come from, what you look like, who you love, how you worship, or what’s in your bank account, we all deserve the opportunity to build a decent life, all of our contributions deserve to be accepted and valued.
Because no one has a monopoly on what it means to be an American. No one.
Kamala has shown her allegiance to this nation, not by spewing anger and bitterness, but by living a life of service and always pushing the doors of opportunity open for others.
She understands that most of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward, we will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth.
If we bankrupt a business, or choke in a crisis, we don’t get a second, third, or fourth chance.
If things don’t go our way, we don’t have the luxury of whining or cheating others to get further ahead, we don’t get to change the rules so we always win.
If we see a mountain in front of us, we don’t expect there to be an escalator waiting to take us to the top. No, we put our heads down. We get to work. In America, we do something.
And throughout her entire life, that’s exactly what we’ve seen from Kamala Harris: the steel of her spine, the steadiness of her upbringing, the honesty of her example, and yes, the joy of her laughter and her light.
It couldn’t be more obvious, of the two major candidates in this race, only Kamala Harris truly understands the unseen labor and unwavering commitment that has always made America great.
Unfortunately, we know what comes next, we know folks are going to do everything they can to distort her truth.
My husband and I, sadly, know a little something about this.
For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us. His limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who also happened to be Black.
Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those “Black jobs”?
It’s his same old con: doubling down on ugly, misogynistic, racist lies as a substitute for real ideas and solutions that will actually make people’s lives better.
You see, gutting our health care, taking away our freedom to control our bodies, the freedom to become a mother through IVF, like I did — those things are not going to improve the health outcomes of our wives, mothers, and daughters.
Shutting down the Department of Education, banning our books —none of that will prepare our kids for the future.
Demonizing our children for being who they are and loving who they love — that doesn’t make anybody’s life better.
Instead, it only makes us small. And let me tell you, going small is never the answer. Going small is the opposite of what we teach our children. Going small is petty, it’s unhealthy, and quite frankly, it’s unpresidential.
Why would we accept this from anyone seeking our highest office?
Why would we normalize this type of backward leadership?
Doing so only demeans and cheapens our politics, it only serves to further discourage good, big-hearted people from wanting to get involved at all.
America, our parents taught us better than that, and we deserve so much better than that.
That’s why we must do everything in our power to elect two of those good, big-hearted people. There is no other choice than Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
But as we embrace this renewed sense of hope, let us not forget the despair we have felt, let us not forget what we are up against.
Yes, Kamala and Tim are doing great right now, they’re packing arenas across the country. Folks are energized, we’re feeling good.
But there are still so many people who are desperate for a different outcome, who are ready to question and criticize every move Kamala makes, who are eager to spread those lies, who don’t want to vote for a woman, who will continue to prioritize building their wealth over ensuring everyone has enough.
No matter how good we feel tonight or tomorrow or the next day, this is still going to be an uphill battle, so we cannot be our own worst enemies.
No, the minute something goes wrong, the minute a lie takes hold, we cannot start wringing our hands. We cannot get a Goldilocks complex about whether everything is just right.
We cannot indulge our anxieties about whether this country will elect someone like Kamala instead of doing everything we can to get someone like Kamala elected.
Kamala and Tim have lived amazing lives, I am confident they will lead with compassion, inclusion, and grace.
But they are still only human. They are not perfect. And like all of us, they will make mistakes.
But luckily, this is not just on them. No, this is up to us — all of us — to be the solution we seek, it is up to all of us to be the antidote to all the darkness and division.
I don’t care how you identify politically, whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, independent, or none of the above, this is our time to stand up for what we know in our hearts is right.
To stand up not just for our basic freedoms but for decency and humanity, for basic respect, dignity, and empathy, for the values at the very foundation of this democracy.
It’s up to us to remember what Kamala’s mother told her: Don’t just sit around and complain — do something.
So if they lie about her, and they will, we’ve got to do something.
If we see a bad poll, and we will, we’ve got to put down that phone and do something. If we start feeling tired, if we start feeling that dread creeping back in, we’ve got to pick ourselves up, throw water on our faces, and do something.
We have only two and a half months to get this done, only 11 weeks to make sure every single person we know is registered and has a voting plan.
So we cannot afford for anyone to sit on their hands and wait to be called upon, don’t complain if no one from the campaign has specifically reached out to ask for your support, there is simply no time for that kind of foolishness.
You know what we need to do.
So consider this to be your official ask: Michelle Obama is asking you to do something.
Because this is going to be close. In some states, just a handful of votes in every precinct could decide the winner.
So we need to vote in numbers that erase any doubt, we need to overwhelm any effort to suppress us.
Our fate is in our hands.
In 77 days, we have the power to turn our country away from the fear, division, and smallness of the past. We have the power to marry our hope with our action. We have the power to pay forward the love, sweat, and sacrifice of our mothers and fathers and all those who came before us.
We did it before and we sure can do it again. Let us work like our lives depend on it,
Let us keep moving our country forward and go higher — yes, higher — than we’ve ever gone before,
As we elect the next president and vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
And now it is my honor to introduce somebody who knows a whole lot about hope, someone who has spent his life strengthening our democracy. Please welcome America’s 44th president and the love of my life, Barack Obama.”
https://www.today.com/news/politics/michelle-obama-dnc-speech-2024-rcna167519
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