Obama critiqued Donald Trump in his address during the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Speaking from Philadelphia on night three of the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama offered a scathing criticism of leadership under his successor, President Donald Trump, and backed the nomination of his former vice president, Joe Biden.
The one constitutional office elected by all of the people is the presidency. So, at a 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. But we should also expect a president to be the custodian of this democracy.
Now, I know that in times as polarized as these, most of you have already made up your mind. But maybe you're still not sure which candidate you'll vote for or whether you'll vote at all. Maybe you're tired of the direction we're headed, but you can't see a better path yet or you just don't know enough about the person wants to lead us there.
Joe and Kamala will restore our standing in the world. And as we've learned from this pandemic, that matters. Joe knows the world and the world knows him. He knows that our true strength comes from setting an example that the world wants to follow. A nation that stands with democracy, not dictators. A nation that can inspire and mobilize others to overcome threats, like climate change and terrorism, poverty and disease.
So, I'm also asking you to believe in your own ability, to embrace your own responsibility as citizens, to make sure that the basic tenets of our democracy endure. Because that's what's at stake right now–our democracy. Last month, we lost a giant of American democracy in John Lewis. And some years ago, I sat down with John and a few remaining leaders of the early Civil Rights Movement. One of them told me he never imagined he'd walk into the White House and see a president who looked like his grandson. And then he told me that he had looked it up and it turned out that on the very day that I was born, he was marching into a jail cell trying to end Jim Crow segregation in the South.
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