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Former First Lady Michelle Obama, who for years many people have wished would run for president herself, resoundingly put her support behind Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz with her speech Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
She began speaking about the values her recently passed mother, Marian Robinson, instilled in her being similar to those values Kamala Harris’ late mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris poured into her. She contrasted those values with the lack of values displayed by the Republican presidential candidate: former President Donald Trump. She also referenced Trump’s fear of two highly educated Black people, former President Barack Obama and herself as First Lady when they occupied the White House. The former First Lady turned Trump’s moniker “Black Jobs,” which he’s described as being those jobs immigrants take away from Black people, squarely on its head, referring to the office of U.S. President being one of those “Black jobs” which he’s seeking, but should rightfully go to Vice President Harris.
Michelle Obama inveighed against the small-mindedness of Trump, and his support of culture wars, adding “demonizing our children for who they love doesn’t help anyone; going small doesn’t help anyone,” to build her case that “There’s no other choice but Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.”
Her attack on voter complacency was pointed and clear. She said, “We can’t afford for anyone in America to sit on their hands and wait to be called. Don’t complain if no one from the [Harris-Walz] campaign has specifically reached out to you to ask you for their support. There is simply no time for that kind of foolishness. You know what you need to do so consider this to be your official ask: Michelle Obama is asking you; no I’m telling you to do something!” The crowd broke out into chants of “Do something! Do something!”
“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 mother and fathers and all those who came before us.”
Michelle Obama reiterated the assignment at the end of her speech before introducing former President Barack Obama. “We did it before, you all, and we sure can do it again. Let us work like our lives depend on it and let us keep moving our country forward. And go higher, yes always 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.”
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At DNC Michelle Obama urges Americans to go higher than we’ve ever gone before
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