Servicemembers, Speech on Military Defense Strategic Review, Third Presidential State of the Union Speech, Iraq War Veterans and Families Gala Toast, To the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, Speech on Repealing Oil and Gas Subsidies, Speech Last month, we lost a giant of American democracy in John Lewis. Americans of all races joining together to declare, in the face of injustice and brutality at the hands of the state, that Black Lives Matter, no more, but no less, so that no child in this country feels the continuing sting of racism. There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. Barack Obama - Race Against Time - World AIDS Day Speech. President Obama discussed the recently passed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as well as the Troubled Assets Relief Program, the state of the economy, and the future of the country. Barack Obama - The Time Has Come for Universal Health Care.
on Entrepreneurship at Dreamplex in Vietnam, Press Conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. Air Force Academy Commencement Address, Presidential Endorsement of Hillary Clinton, Statement on the Shootings in Orlando, Florida, United State of Women White House Summit Address, Address to the Community of Orlando, Florida, Press Conference Following 2016 NATO Summit, Post Security Council Pentagon Press Conference, On the Explosions in New York and New Jersey, United Nations and stated "there is not a liberal America and a conservative America—there is the United States of America". So they're hoping to make it as hard as possible for you to vote, and to convince you that your vote does not matter. His last speech on behalf of the campaign was delivered at a rally at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on the eve of Election Day on November 7, 2016. They'll rescue the economy, like Joe helped me do after the Great Recession. at the American Red Cross, Second And gradually, we made this country more just, more equal, and more free. The 44th president has rarely criticized Mr. Trump by name, but he did not hesitate to denounce his successor Wednesday night.
But more than anything, what I know about Joe, what I know about Kamala is that they actually care about every American. So at minimum, we should expect a president to feel a sense of responsibility for the safety and welfare of all 330 million of us – regardless of what we look like, how we worship, who we love, how much money we have – or who we voted for. Perhaps the most emotional and evocative speech of Obama's political life, his eulogy for pastor and state senator Clementa Pinckney of Charleston, South Carolina â which ultimately became a eulogy for the eight parishoners who were killed alongside him, as well, gunned down in a racially motivated massacre â looms large. When Joe listens to a parent who's trying to hold it all together right now, he does it as the single dad who took the train back to Wilmington each and every night so he could tuck his kids into bed. This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes to win. Based on that ambiguity, Obama said that perhaps such laws should be examined.[47]. Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
After all, being a freshly minted young president-elect is altogether different from being, in effect, the establishment, and Obama's victories under both circumstances speak to a broad level of political skill.
[51] Speech had Obama singing "Amazing grace" with the emotional crowd. During this speech, made six days after George Zimmerman was found not guilty, Obama said, "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago."
Folks of every age and background who packed city centers and airports and rural roads so that families wouldn't be separated. Inspirational speeches from America’s first African American president. His unexpected landslide victory in the March 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Democratic primary had made him overnight a rising star within the national Democratic Party, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, Dreams from My Father. Here are 11 of the very best addresses he's given throughout that time.
So that our kids won't grow up on an uninhabitable planet. [61] Michael Grunwald of Politico called it a "stirring but fundamentally defensive speech. [7] The New Yorker opined that the speech helped elect Obama as the President of the United States.[8].
From pre-presidential oratory to his farewell address, the former president covers issues of race, unemployment, natural disasters, public tragedies, and his legacy of health care reform. They were on the receiving end of a democracy that had fallen short all their lives.
When he meets with military families who've lost their hero, he does it as a kindred spirit; the parent of an American soldier; somebody whose faith has endured the hardest loss there is.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi presided over the joint session and was accompanied by the President of the United States Senate, Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States.
They'll expand health care to more Americans, like Joe and I did ten years ago when he helped craft the Affordable Care Act and nail down the votes to make it the law. Unlike almost all prior and all subsequent convention keynote addresses, it was not televised by the commercial broadcast networks, and was only seen by a combined PBS, cable news and C-SPAN television audience of about 9 million.
Do it as early as you can and tell your family and friends how they can vote too. They understand that political opponents aren't "un-American" just because they disagree with you; the free press isn't the "enemy" but the way we hold officials accountable; that our ability to work together to solve big problems like a pandemic depend on a fidelity to facts and science and logic and not just making stuff up. Well, here's the point: this president and those in power – those who benefit from keeping things the way they are – they are counting on your cynicism.
They will get this pandemic under control, like Joe did when he helped me manage H1N1 and prevent an Ebola outbreak from reaching our shores. Barack Obama - Floor Statement on President's Decision to Increase Troops in Iraq.
In January of 2016, Obama gave an expansive and strikingly emotional speech about the spate of gun violence incidents and mass shootings that have occurred throughout his two terms in office, including the Charleston massacre, the terrorist-inspired killings in San Bernardino, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and the other approximately 30,000 Americans per year who are killed by guns. A nation that can inspire and mobilize others to overcome threats like climate change, terrorism, poverty, and disease.
Since its delivery, several academics have studied the speech, both for the various narratives it describes as well as its implications for racial reconciliation.
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