In speeches, Michelle and Barack Obama addressed several issues which they cast as double standards within the Republican party by pressing home what they felt were the core values of the women who raised them, to draw parallels with Kamala Harris and her family, while calling out Donald Trump and his values.
Michelle Obama laid waste to the would be second term prospects of Trump. The former first lady raised the roof “Hope is making a comeback,” she informed the crowd.
Mrs Obama said. “That if you do unto others, if you love thy neighbour, if you work and scrape and sacrifice, it will pay off, if not for you then maybe for your children or your grandchildren.”
She then described how most Americans, unlike Trump “will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth”.
“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us. His limited, narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working, highly-educated, successful people who happen to be black.”
She took aim at a recent comment by Donald Trump who had told an audience of black journalists that migrants were coming to take “black jobs”.
“Who’s gonna tell him? Who’s gonna tell him? That the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those black jobs,” bringing down the house.
She finished her speech with a call to action for Democrats, gently chastising party members who prefer to sit around and give out.
In consolidating the feelings of the crowd, firmly in the palm of her hand she said:
“You know what you need to do,” she said. “Consider this your official invitation. Michelle Obama is asking.”
Her husband, former Presideny Barack Obama walked on stage after his wife to U2’s City of Blinding Lights to deadpan!
“I’m the only person stupid enough to speak after Michelle Obama,” he told the crowd.
The former US president praised Kamala Harris, describing her as “someone who sees you and hears you and will get up every single day and fight for you.”
“Yes she can,” he said, recalling his own campaign slogan of 2008.
He too took direct aim at Donald Trump.
“Here’s a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago.”
“It has been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that’s actually going to get worse. Now that he’s afraid of losing, there’s the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes.”
“We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos. We have seen that movie before, and we all know that the sequel is usually worse.”
Barack Obama chastised his own party members not to ‘cancel’ wavering Democrat voters.
“If we want to win over those who aren’t yet ready to support our candidates, we need to listen to their concerns and maybe learn something in the process,” he said.
“After all, if a parent or grandparent occasionally says something that makes us cringe, we don’t automatically assume they’re bad people. We recognise that the world is moving fast, that they need time to make a little effort to catch up.”
The Obamas plotting a way forward for the under pressure party ahead of November's elections.
