Barack Obama’s Convention speech was magnificent. A speech for the ages. If you missed it tonight, you’ll just have to find a way to listen to it. It’ll inspire you and empower you. Trust me on that.— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 20, 2020
This is the best I can manage:
Barack Obama: "I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously. That he might come to feel the weight of the office & discover some reference of democracy that was placed in his care. But he never did." pic.twitter.com/TJdRWvqBTa— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2020
Obama: "Trump has not grown into the job because he can't. And the consequences of that failure are severe. 170,000 dead. Millions of jobs, gone. Those at the top have taken more than ever. Our worst impulses unleashed. Our proud reputation around the world badly diminished." pic.twitter.com/20loURp8yq— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2020
Obama: "What I know about Joe & Kamala is...[they understand] our ability to work together to solve big problems like a pandemic depend on a fidelity to science & logic & not just making stuff up...this POTUS, & those who enable him, have shown they don't believe in these things" pic.twitter.com/OYSWanxkaP— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2020
Obama: "This POTUS & those in power, those who benefit from keeping things the way they are, they're counting on your cynicism. They know they can't win you over w/their policies, so they're hoping to make it as hard as possible for you to vote, to convince it doesn't matter." pic.twitter.com/MIprYfdtoi— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2020
Obama: "Black Americans chained & whipped & hanged, spit on for trying to sit at lunch counters, beaten for trying to vote. If anyone had a right to believe this democracy didn't work & couldn't work, it was those Americans ... [but] instead of giving up, they joined together." pic.twitter.com/UVBkpXUwqe— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2020
Obama: "This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that is what it takes for them to win." pic.twitter.com/CfoGDPaIXw— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2020
President Obama delivered a speech that said President Trump is incapable of growing into the job of the presidency, has used it to his own benefit and treated it like one big reality TV show.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 20, 2020
In response, President Trump anger tweeted his speech. https://t.co/x7cpWxZpH7
This speech is quite good, but I'll be honest I'm still a bit shook by a former president saying that if Trump is reelected our democracy won't survive— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) August 20, 2020
I was thinking that Obama was giving a really good Obama speech. Then, about halfway home, I realized I was hearing Patrick Henry and Dr. King, harmonizing. Jesus, that was something.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 20, 2020
And earlier that same day the President was in front of the cameras:
Mark Meadows: “There is no evidence that he’s NOT saving the world from satanic pedophile cannibals.”— minnesorta (@minnesorta) August 20, 2020
Just to remind you that what Hillary said tonight was important, too:
"This can't be be another woulda, shoulda, coulda election" -- Hillary Clinton pic.twitter.com/pERhk7Xoxu— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2020
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