Thursday, September 29, 2016

Obama for Hillary? Or Against Trump?

A couple of weeks ago, President Barack Obama voiced his support for Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. Or more so his distaste for Donald Trump.

After all the criticism that Obama has received from Trump throughout the election (claiming he wasn't born in the US, threatening to do away with Obamacare if he gets elected, the list goes on...), these speeches are certainly justified.

First, while addressing the Congressional Black Caucus gala on Saturday, September 17, 2016, he stated the he would consider it a “personal insult” if black voters didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton.

He supported that statement with the instance where Donald Trump spoke inaccurately about the fact that “there’s never been a worse time to be a black person.”

Obama continued his speech by talking about how Trump has spent his entire career trying to fight against equality and civil rights and has “shown no regard for working people most of his life.”

In a second speech, at a DNC fundraiser in New York on Sunday, September 18, 2016, Obama spoke about how sexism in the United States is the reason why we haven’t yet had a woman president.

Obama said, “ There’s a reason why we haven’t had a woman president; that we as a society still grapple with what it means to see a powerful woman. And it still troubles us in a lot of ways, unfairly, and that expresses itself in all sorts of ways.”

He also said flat out “This guy is not qualified to be president.”

And most recently, Public Policy Polling has devised a poll to see how Obama would have been doing in this presidential race as compared to how Hillary is doing. And the results of that poll showed that the results would not be much different; Obama would only do slightly better, as in only a few points more.

So maybe Obama can actually relate to how Clinton is feeling during this race? I believe it's more of that fact that Obama doesn't support Trump.

3 comments:

  1. I agree with you here about Obama not supporting Trump, I read somewhere that out of the remaining past Presidents all of them are Clinton supporters, and I don't blame them. Many people feel like Trump is not qualified to be president, he does not have a political background and in my opinion he is never prepared for any of his speeches, he spends more time making fun of other people then actually showing us how he will, "make america great again".

    I have seen memes on social media where Obama says hes not leaving the White House if Trump becomes president, or hes on the phone with Hillary and they are making fun of Trump. Yes these are just making fun of him but in a way they do show Obama's true feelings, and lack of support for Trump.

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  2. I read this post. Then I went back and read it a second time. But I still don't understand what argument you are making.

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  3. This blog post is definitely interesting to think about during this election. We all kind of figured that Obama would end up voting for Clinton instead of Trump, it is very informative to see exactly why he does not agree with the candidate. However, I do believe that to make this argument more structured and informative you could have added in more about why Obama dislikes Trump. You could have done this by adding in more quotes that he has said. I know not too long ago, Obama spoke out publicly why Donald Trump should not be president. It could have been a good addition to your argument.

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