Barack
Obama's wife stole the show with this touching and sensational speech
at the Democratic Convention while supporting Hillary Clinton.
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama stole the show at the US Democratic National
Convention with this touching and fantastic speech about her husband's 8
years in power as the President of America.
Read the full speech and watch the inspiring video below.
(Applause) Thank you all. Thank you so much. You know, it’s hard to
believe that it has been eight years since I first came to this
convention to talk with you about why I thought my husband should be
president.
Remember how I told you about his character and convictions, his
decency and his grace, the traits that we’ve seen every day that he’s
served our country in the White House?
I also told you about our daughters, how they are the heart of our
hearts, the center of our world. And during our time in the White House,
we’ve had the joy of watching them grow from bubbly little girls into
poised young women, a journey that started soon after we arrived in
Washington.
When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will
never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10
years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns.
And I saw their little faces pressed up against the window, and the only thing I could think was, what have we done?
See, because at that moment I realized that our time in the White
House would form the foundation for who they would become and how well
we managed this experience could truly make or break them. That is what
Barack and I think about every day as we try to guide and protect our
girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight, how
we urge them to ignore those who question their father’s citizenship or
faith.
How we insist that the hateful language they hear from public figures on TV does not represent the true spirit of this country.
How we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you
don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go
high.
With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our
kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role
models. And let me tell you, Barack and I take that same approach to our
jobs as president and first lady because we know that our words and
actions matter, not just to our girls, but the children across this
country, kids who tell us I saw you on TV, I wrote a report on you for
school.
Kids like the little black boy who looked up at my husband, his eyes wide with hope and he wondered, is my hair like yours?
And make no mistake about it, this November when we go to the polls
that is what we’re deciding, not Democrat or Republican, not left or
right. No, in this election and every election is about who will have
the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of
their lives.
And I am here tonight because in this election there is only one
person who I trust with that responsibility, only one person who I
believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and
that is our friend Hillary Clinton.
See, I trust Hillary to lead this country because I’ve seen her
lifelong devotion to our nation’s children, not just her own daughter,
who she has raised to perfection, but every child who needs a champion,
kids who take the long way to school to avoid the gangs, kids who wonder
how they’ll ever afford college, kids whose parents don’t speak a word
of English, but dream of a better life, kids who look to us to determine
who and what they can be.
You see, Hillary has spent decades doing the relentless, thankless
work to actually make a difference in their lives…advocating for kids
with disabilities as a young lawyer, fighting for children’s health care
as first lady, and for quality child care in the Senate.
And when she didn’t win the nomination eight years ago, she didn’t get angry or disillusioned.
Hillary did not pack up and go home, because as a true public
servant Hillary knows that this is so much bigger than her own desires
and disappointments.
So she proudly stepped up to serve our country once again as secretary of state, traveling the globe to keep our kids safe.
And look, there were plenty of moments when Hillary could have
decided that this work was too hard, that the price of public service
was too high, that she was tired of being picked apart for how she looks
or how she talks or even how she laughs. But here’s the thing. What I
admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She
never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on
anything in her life.
And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.
I want someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone who
knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the
issues a president faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled
down to 140 characters.
Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the
military in your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a
thin skin or a tendency to lash out. You need to be steady and measured
and well-informed.
I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose
life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for
ourselves, we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
And we give back even when we’re struggling ourselves because we
know that there is always someone worse off. And there but for the grace
of God go I.
I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in
this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that
our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created
equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.
And when crisis hits, we don’t turn against each other. No, we
listen to each other, we lean on each other, because we are always
stronger together.
And I am here tonight because I know that that is the kind of
president that Hillary Clinton will be. And that’s why in this election
I’m with her.
You see, Hillary understands that the president is about one thing
and one thing only, it’s about leaving something better for our kids.
That’s how we’ve always moved this country forward, by all of us coming
together on behalf of our children, folks who volunteer to coach that
team, to teach that Sunday school class, because they know it takes a
village.
Heroes of every color and creed who wear the uniform and risk their
lives to keep passing down those blessings of liberty, police officers
and the protesters in Dallas who all desperately want to keep our
children safe.
People who lined up in Orlando to donate blood because it could have been their son, their daughter in that club.
Leaders like Tim Kaine who show our kids what decency and devotion look like.
Leaders like Hillary Clinton who has the guts and the grace to keep
coming back and putting those cracks in that highest and hardest glass
ceiling until she finally breaks through, lifting all of us along with
her.
That is the story of this country, the story that has brought me to
this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the
lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but
who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that
today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.
And I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.
And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all our sons and
daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the
United States.
So, look, so don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t
great, that somehow we need to make it great again. Because this right
now is the greatest country on earth!
And as my daughters prepare to set out into the world, I want a
leader who is worthy of that truth, a leader who is worthy of my girls’
promise and all our kids’ promise, a leader who will be guided every day
by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our
children.
So in this election, we cannot sit back and hope that everything
works out for the best. We cannot afford to be tired or frustrated or
cynical. No, hear me. Between now and November, we need to do what we
did eight years ago and four years ago.
We need to knock on every door, we need to get out every vote, we
need to pour every last ounce of our passion and our strength and our
love for this country into electing Hillary Clinton as president of the
United States of America!
So let’s get to work. Thank you all and God bless.
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