Analysis: President Obama's unusual flaying of his successor served as a historical marker — and a powerful political weapon for the Democratic ticket.
"For close to four years now, he’s shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends; no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves," Obama said.
In an exchange of emails with NBC News, Jeff Shesol, a speechwriter in President Bill Clinton's White House and a founding partner of the firm West Wing Writers, called Obama's speech"a civics lesson from the edge of a cliff." "But as Obama made so clear tonight, our democracy is under assault," Shesol said."Our system of self-government is in danger. In that light, it would be a dereliction of duty for him to tiptoe around Trump."
"When we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that's drowning out everything else ... We degrade the very causes for which we fight," she said."Going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold, hard truth. So let me be as honest and clear as I possibly can: Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country.
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