Pres. Obama's Howard U. commencement address takes on BS directly. Wonderful...

[Surya Gayatri]

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"It's great to have passion, but you've got to have a strategy. And, your plan better include voters and votes..."

ETA:

[BlueCaliDem]

1. WoooHOOOO! Our President is slowly coming out to campaign for our gal!

[Surya Gayatri]

3. That rapier-sharp thrust was directly to BS's underbelly...

Pres. BHO is DEFINITELY in GE mode!

[stonecutter357]

2. K&R!

[yallerdawg]

4. We also caught his...

"Comrade Bernie" remark at the White House Correspondence Dinner.

Something the M$M doesn't vet much...

[Surya Gayatri]

6. The MSM didn't even blink on that...go figure!

[UtahLib]

5. Bitterly discounting certain voters is a very bad strategy. eom

[Surya Gayatri]

7. You mean like the whole southern tier of the US? Well, yeah.

Not to mention PoC in all big US cities.

[UtahLib]

8. +1. nt

[Cha]

12. Not to mention Guam!

[George II]

31. You Islanders are always sticking up for each other.....

....

[Cha]

40. Guam Guam Guam!

Rejoicing about Guam!

George Guam

[pandr32]

19. Yep!

[uponit7771]

22. +1

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

29. Nobody will call BS and his supporters out on their racism. NO ONE!!

[Surya Gayatri]

32. Certainly not the MSM. If anyone dares to mention the "R" word, the pundits all

feign outrage. They won't even call out Trump's "Birther" movement for what it is--a white supremacist, KKK-like attempt to marginalize a Pres. of color.

Witness Rob Reiner's moment of truth-telling on Morning Scar last Thurs., and the phony, affected "shock" of Joe & Mika.

[brer cat]

33. +1000 nt

[sufrommich]

9. I was watching and thinking the same thing.

He also said ideological purity feels good but doesn't make change in the system. He's being very honest with these graduates.

[Surya Gayatri]

11. HRC can take whole swaths of this address and integrate them into her stump speech.

[sufrommich]

13. I think we're seeing parts of Obama's speech on

the 2016 campaign trail. Nobody says it like Obama.

[Surya Gayatri]

18. He's a matchless orator. We'll not see his like again.

[Walk away]

10. He is the one!

[Surya Gayatri]

15. How I LOVE this man...I'll be in mourning once he's no longer on the Presidential stage.

[Walk away]

20. I keep telling everyone...he's not going anywhere! He and Michelle are going to help...

change the world! They are going to mobilize the "Obama Coalition" for 2018. I just know it. I believe, with Hillary as POTUS and a Democratic Senate, the Party is going to unify and take back the House! I think the transformation he spoke about in 2008 has only just begun.

[Surya Gayatri]

24. He truly cares and he WILL translate that caring in to action...yeessss!

He is innately wise enough to understand that his"legacy" will not be a question of his immediate policies being continued, but of the nation being truly transformed over the longer term.

[drray23]

26. I completely agree

As soon as Hillary is the official nominee the president will go out and help her. Imagine the combined power of the Obama and Clinton political machines as far as fund raising and GOTV efforts go. Trump is not going to see what hits him.

[LiberalFighter]

14. I really like listening to him when speaks.

I like Hillary too but the President is much better.

[Surya Gayatri]

17. NOBODY does it better...nobody. Even Big Dawg can't match him.

Love how he brings tears to my eyes and hope to my heart.

[sufrommich]

16. The girl they showed crying was the "Sierra" he was talking about.

She turned down Harvard to go to Howard.

[uponit7771]

23. +1

[uponit7771]

21. The whole speech was another Obama great one, America will miss this man !!

[Tarheel_Dem]

25. He reminded them that change isn't about just electing a POTUS. It's about what we do...

between presidential elections. He mentioned voter turnout in 2014 specifically. For all their passion, they haven't learned the very basic lesson, that ALL elections have consequences. He also reminded them that they should show up to vote for school board and sheriff. Learn who your state's Attorney General is, and who the DA is, and learn the difference.

It was classic Obama, even though I missed the first 15 minutes of it.

[Surya Gayatri]

34. He wisely used that podium to school the whole US electorate

in "real-politik".

If you refuse to get involved, whether out of indifference or ideological purity or complacency, you don't get to change the system or complain about it.

[Tarheel_Dem]

35. Exactly. Some of them feel that if they show up every four years they can change the world. But...

what they don't seem to realize is that we have 3 "co-equal" branches of government, and the executive is just one branch. BS still hasn't convincingly explained why he'll be able to get things done better than Obama, without a cooperative Congress. People marching outside the Capitol sounds great, but with the acute partisanship & gerrymandering we're experiencing, marching won't be enough.

[Surya Gayatri]

37. Every time the Bern gets up on his "milllion marchers revolution" high-horse,

I do this (along with thousands of others):



He sounds like nothing so much as a naive teenager, who's just discovered Marx's Das Kapital, but who hasn't yet read the chapter on its failed implementation during the 20th Century.

[Tarheel_Dem]

38. He's a 72/3 year old juvenile. And that's kinda sad if you really think about it. Nothing wrong...

with being idealistic, but you have to let realism seep in every once in awhile.

[Walk away]

27. Obama, Biden and Kerry are all starting to campaign for Hillary already.

I think the entire Democratic party (except those 6 people endorsing Bernie) are going to start working for her now. It can't be with bells and whistles until Cranky Bernie & Jane go home. But it is starting already!

[fleabiscuit]

28. A YouTube link...

President Barack H. Obama Speech Howard University (5-7-16)

[Surya Gayatri]

30. Great! It's already on YouTube...thanks for finding and posting!

This was one for posterity...

[Tarheel_Dem]

36. Thanks for posting. I missed the first 15 minutes.

[SharonClark]

39. Love Obama - thanks for the link

[DemonGoddess]

41. LOVED this speech!

What's funny is even my staunchly R hubs liked it. He doesn't like Obama much, but he appreciated what was being said in the speech.

Me, I got goosebumps listening!

[Surya Gayatri]

42. I can't help it--when BHO is on his best form, I invariably get goosebumps and teary eyes! LOL!

Now that's someone who knows his oratory. He can move people to listen to their better selves.