Barack Obama urges Democrats to take a stand ‘This is a moment of great urgency and you are right to be concerned’
During a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Beverly Hills on Thursday, President Barack Obama weighed in on America’s toxic state of affairs and gave an eye-opening speech urging supporters to join the movement and take a stand, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
“This is a moment of great urgency and you are right to be concerned,” Obama said.
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Obama also blamed members of the Democratic party and cautioned against looking for a miracle candidate or “the next Barack Obama” to turn the tide and make a difference.
“Do not wait for the perfect message, don’t wait to feel a tingle in your spine because you’re expecting politicians to be so inspiring and poetic and moving that somehow, ‘OK, I’ll get off my couch after all and go spend the 15 to 20 minutes it takes for me to vote,’” Obama said, reports Politico.
“Because that’s part of what happened in the last election. I heard that too much.”
And now here we are.
Obama added: “If we don’t vote, then this democracy doesn’t work.”
Obama admitted some of his own faults and shortcomings during his presidency.
“If I have a regret during my presidency, it is that people were so focused on me and the battles we were having, particularly after we lost the House, that folks stopped paying attention up and down the ballot.”
While he didn’t mention Trump directly Obama did allude to Trump’s hateful practices saying:
“Fear is powerful,” he said of the Trump administration rhetoric.
Obama spoke about Trump’s one-sided approach to his presidency.
“We are seeing the consequences of when one vision is realized, or in charge.”
“There’s a fundamental contrast of how we view the world,” he said about the differences between Republicans and Democrats.
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But Barack Obama did talk about Trump indirectly and his obsession with news shows and social media.
“All these people that are out here kvetching and wringing their hands and stressed and anxious and constantly watching cable TV and howling at the moon, ‘What are we going to do?,’ their hair’s falling out, they can’t sleep,” Obama said.
“The majority of the American people prefer a story of hope. A majority of the American people prefer a country that comes together rather than being divided. The majority of the country doesn’t want to see a dog-eat-dog world where everybody is angry all the time.”
And the Trump administration is big mad Obama said: “They’re mad even when they win.”
But Barack Obama also encouraged his supporters to keep fighting for what’s right.
“Reality has an interesting way of coming up and biting you, and the other side has been peddling a lot of stuff that is so patently untrue that you can get away with it for a while, but at a certain point, you confront reality. The Democrats’ job is not to exaggerate; the Democrats’ job is not to simply mimic the tactics of the other side. All we have to do is work hard on behalf of that truth. And if we do, we’ll get better outcomes.”
