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Michelle Obama: WH being led with fear
Michelle Obama Mic Drop...
When asked how she views the world “right now,” former first lady Michelle Obama had less of an answer and more of a gut reaction.
She cringed and quietly groaned.“I don’t have much of a poker voice,” Obama said with a laugh.
Though she didn’t mention President Donald Trump by name — a leader who’s spent much of his early tenure trying to erase the legacy of her husband, former President Barack Obama — the former first lady did tell a Salt Lake City audience Thursday that “we are looking at two different administrations.”
One, she said, was built on hope. The other is being led with fear.
“It isn’t just us first,” she said, a reference to Trump’s “America First” agenda. “We live in a big country and a big world. … You can’t just want to help someone in a hurricane and not make sure they can go to the doctor when they’re sick.”
Her remarks, part of an hourlong moderated conversation, came on the last of a three-day tech conference hosted by Pluralsight, a Utah-based company. More than 1,000 attendees, mostly IT employees, raptly watched as she spoke, clapping loudly and nodding in agreement.
One woman in the audience suggested with a shout that Obama run for president.“Oh no! That’s still shocking. Like what? Are you kidding me? No,” Obama said. “No, running for office is nowhere on the radar screen but continuing in public service is something I will do for the rest of my life.”And while she acknowledged “things are tough right now” and suggested “we’re being tested,” Obama professed that she “continues to be hopeful” that the political climate will improve.
One avenue with potential, she believes, is technology. Echoing comments she made in June at Apple’s annual developer conference, Obama urged computing companies to invest in and hire more women (most major tech businesses, including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, have workforces where fewer than 20 percent of the technical employees are female, according to annual “diversity reports”).
http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2017/09/22/in-salt-lake-city-speech-michelle-obama-keeps-on-preaching-hope-as-she-cringes-at-climate-of-fear/
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