Opening Night At The DNC: Michelle Obama Nailed It
Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 26th, 2016
Good morning!
I know that probably every one of you saw Michelle Obama’s speech last night during the first evening of the DNC. In my opinion she is the quintessence of intelligence, grace, style, and beauty. I was so drawn in by her words…so moved by her honesty, and inspired by her optimism. This girl is REAL.
I loved that her speech was all about the children and the future of our country and how Hillary is the girl who will stick in there and persevere, no matter what. Michelle Obama: I hear you. I’m with her too.
Her speech, as many have already stated, will be anthologized, quoted, and replayed for years to come. Let me begin by replaying it for you right now. Unlike the featured article, I am posting the full speech. Enjoy it again.
From the Huff Po:
FLOTUS LIKE A BUTTERFLY STING LIKE A BEE
Michelle Obama: Who Do You Want For Your Children’s Role Model?
The Democratic Convention crowd went wild.
PHILADELPHIA ― First lady Michelle Obama on Monday asked Americans to decide who they want serving as a role model for their children ― Donald Trump orHillary Clinton.
This election, Obama said during her speech at the Democratic National Convention, “is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives.”
The crowd waved purple signs that read simply, “Michelle.”
Obama made clear that this election will determine who will give hope to the next generation, or instill fear.
“Every word we utter, every action we take, we know they are watching,” Obama said. “We as parents are their most important role models.”
That responsibility, Obama said, carries into her role as first lady, and her husband’s job as president.
“We know that our words and actions matter not just to our girls, but to children across this country,” she said.
Taking a jab at Trump and others who have questioned the president’s citizenship and his faith, Obama repeated the advice she and the president have shared with their children.
“When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level,” she said. “No, our motto is: ‘When they go low, we go high.’”
Obama recalled a simple but telling moment her husband shared with a little boy to tell those in Wells Fargo Center and watching across the U.S. that this election comes downs to more than party divisions stirring Democrats as the convention begins.
“Kids like the little black boy who looked up at my husband with eyes wide, and he wondered, ‘Is my hair like yours?’” Obama said. “Make no mistake about it, this November when we go to the polls that is what we are deciding. Not Democrat or Republican. Not left or right.”
And the only person she trusts with the future of her daughters and other American children is Hillary Clinton.
“I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters,” she said. “I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life work shows our children that we don’t seek fame and fortune for ourselves.”
A president “can’t have a thin skin or a tendency to lash out,” she said. “You need to be steady and measured and well informed.”
In a nod to disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters, Obama noted Clinton’s loss to her husband in 2008. “Hillary knows this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointments.”
Instead, Obama said, Clinton decided to keep coming back to put “cracks in the highest and hardest glass ceiling” and take the country along. It’s that story of America, she said, that brought her to Philadelphia to deliver her speech.
It’s the story of generations who lived their lives in the U.S. feeling the “lash of bondage … the sting of segregation,” but who kept “striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today, I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.
“And I watch my daughters, two beautiful and intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.”
Now, because of Clinton, Obama said her daughters will “take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.”
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President Obama: You must be so proud. Michelle Obama is a Wonderful Woman Of The World.
Readers: I’m 👉🏼 With Her.
Mike, TM: Thanks for the very informative post. You answered many questions that I had as I was perusing online. As usual the stakes are high. I’m looking forward to hearing how Putin arranged to get the UK out of the EU. I find it fascinating that hours after the Brexit vote, many British frantically googled: ”What is the EU?” and “What will Brexit mean for the UK?” I couldn’t understand why people voted to leave the EU when they weren’t quite sure what their vote to leave would mean. Or was it just Big L, littla a…when it came to getting to the polls to vote or ? Perhaps your revealing of Putin’s antics will expose the truth.
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July 26th, 2016 at 12:28 pm
I JUST popped up this video on YT and have a headset in right before I opened here, I should’ve known you’d post it : )
She’s inspiring, luv her.
Beatrice (#3 I think) I wondered why a girlZ would hesitate to address me directly…I’m quite accessible and always answer. and you said it about white privilege “pry it from our cold dead hands’ … that’s the ONLY reason I can think of that a bunch of white men and a lot of totally misguided (I’m being kind) white women would have allowed Trump to stand for anything BUT WP…it’s a sad state of affairs. & I’m still stunned that he got this far with the whole campaign, Pathetic.
#12 & I’ll address #14 also, because I was going to state ‘George Washington Carver” bc as a kid of 9 years old, I loved autobiographies and biographies for my favorite reading, when I brought home that BIO and read it, I addressed the family and told them just how smart and how much GWC invented and asked why isn’t he mentioned about these things, that’s when I saw it … my father looked at my mother, she looked at her plate and the family protected the WP stance in few words and then asked why are you reading about black men anyway, can you believe that response??
…that’s where I learned to observe human behavior not listen to the words of anyone and I became very intrigued by how people formed their beliefs and their most misguided beliefs are always formed by fear…and religions instill that fear based thinking best, explains the box of rocks thinking (it’s a deep hypnosis)
I’m sorry, I forgot who said ‘shades of Zen Lill’ when addressing Dawn the other day, but I liked the sound of that sexy compliment…
Luv, Zen Lill and PS “Let’s get to work” – Michelle Obama
July 26th, 2016 at 4:11 pm
Bernie just asked that all the votes be awarded to Clinton.
“I move that the convention suspend the procedural rules … and I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee.”
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders speaking during the roll call vote at the Democratic National Convention.
Now let’s give Sanders and Warren and Booker and Brown etc. a Democratic majority in the Senate.
/SB
July 26th, 2016 at 4:15 pm
https://youtu.be/m2r_eXmWBHg
/SB
July 27th, 2016 at 6:53 am
Social Butterfly#2. Amen
July 27th, 2016 at 6:56 am
Yes my daughters will take for granted that they can be POTUS if Hilary gets elected. Just as black people can take for granted that a black man can be POTUS because Obama DID get elected.
So everybody who cares. Let’s get out and vote. Don’t forget Michelle, and Social Butterfly’s suggestion that we also give her coattails.
July 27th, 2016 at 6:57 am
WOW!!!! Social Butter that link featuring Tim Wise was just AWESOME!
July 27th, 2016 at 7:00 am
OMG Zen Lill#1, I had that same experience with my parents. I was going to do my Peanut essay for 11th grade.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:01 am
I love Michelle Obama. I am not black, but she looks like me and I see her being the center of attention. It makes me so happy to know that if you have a message, the color of your skin doesn’t matter.
Thanks for the article Michelle.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:06 am
Zen Lill, I grew up loving books by Alexander Dumas. My parents who are college professors never told me he was black.
When I learned, he was and asked them why they never bothered, they said “niggers don’t have the brains we have, but sometimes a bit of white blood enables them to excel in small ways.
I didn’t know my parents were bigot because I just assumed the negative things they implied about OTWs were true.
Like you said Zen Lill a “deep Hypnosis.”
July 27th, 2016 at 7:26 am
I was really hoping Michelle would just walk out and repeat Melania’s speech verbatim with complete sincerity. Missed opportunity.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:28 am
Ignoring all the shit with Bill Clinton, Hillary had 8 years in the Senate and 4 as SoS. That’s an insane amount of experience.
I agree with Michelle Obama 100%. Hilary is the most qualified and the best candidate for POTUS.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:30 am
I too like Michelle’s speech, but Hilary has some bit of controversy every inch of the way. Lets not forget she started her career as a Goldwater Girl, campaigning for Barry Goldwater.
She comes of as not giving a fuck about anyone, unless they have something to give her.
Michelle genuinely cares.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:31 am
Tremendous speech. I felt like I was there.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:32 am
Helen#11, Yes, an insane amount of experience in the Senate sponsoring no bills of importance and 4 years as SoS fucking up the ME. Insane experience indeed.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:38 am
I love her poise and elegance.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:39 am
I’m a black woman and she makes me so proud to be black.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:40 am
What a way to sponsor someone. Hilary must have been elated.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:41 am
Michelle I tweeted all my friends that you would post this speech while i was listening to it.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:42 am
Michelle, how come I couldn’t get it to be the first post? Why do you only allow your regulars to start your blog?
July 27th, 2016 at 7:45 am
My family hates Michelle. I suspect as Zen Lill said it is “deep hypnosis.” They are against “race mixing.” So my asian boy friend can’t pick me up or drop me off.
I’m 22 and living at home. My parents support my education and I need the support. It is so humiliating having to be dropped off a block from home.
Racism is just terrible.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:46 am
Patty#19, that’s because Zen Lill and Social Butterfly are figments of Michelle’s imagination.
No one is that clever or smart all the time. Get a clue.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:48 am
Michelle, thanks for the post. Next to meeting you our fan club would most like to meet Michelle Obama.
Let’s double up on the Michelles. Put you two together and make the world better. I bet Obama would find you fascinating too.
July 27th, 2016 at 7:49 am
Great speech by a great FLOTUS!
July 27th, 2016 at 8:29 am
12 Craiggg really?! We’re going there again? Ok I’m fake, if you’re into archetype patterning it’s makes sense that she who is a smart powerhouse of petite and brunette gone beautifully Grey maybe you think she needs Zen Lill and Alycedale and Social Butterfly to do what, prop her up? She does just fine on her own. I almost spat out my delicious latte over that one, unbelievable after all this time…this proving some people just can’t wrap their heads around the obvious.
Scott, Brittany & Lucy, it’s a disillusioning day when you hear that from your primary caretakers/parents isn’t it? Made me very sad … My mother is also a sexist and thinks I’m too outspoken lol I cut her slack now bc she’s older and that won’t change but it’s challenging at times.
Luv, Zen Lill
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