09-07-2018, 02:59 PM
Today, Barrack Obama received an ethics award and gave a speech to the students and staff at Illinois University. He's set to hit the mid-term campaign trail for the Dems.
In the speech, Obama described the problems with today's politics, gave brief examples of how it's come up in our nation's past (fueled by both sides of the aisle), criticized the Congress for failing in its duty to check the Executive, described President Trump as "the symptom, not the cause" of the extreme partisan divide we're now living under, took credit for accomplishing economic recovery and growth during his terms, etc...
He then compelled the audience to do the one thing that can help fix the problems we're experiencing now and check the Executive branch -- VOTE in the midterms.
Here are some clips from what I thought was a very good speech:
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsAUFhsWszY
In the speech, Obama described the problems with today's politics, gave brief examples of how it's come up in our nation's past (fueled by both sides of the aisle), criticized the Congress for failing in its duty to check the Executive, described President Trump as "the symptom, not the cause" of the extreme partisan divide we're now living under, took credit for accomplishing economic recovery and growth during his terms, etc...
He then compelled the audience to do the one thing that can help fix the problems we're experiencing now and check the Executive branch -- VOTE in the midterms.
Here are some clips from what I thought was a very good speech:
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsAUFhsWszY