FLOTUS Michelle Obama is currently campaigning for Hillary Clinton, and she’s most recently made a speech to 700 university students in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Her speeches are usually motivational and about ‘coming together as a country’ to make positive change, but this speech was different.
Obama says she could not ignore what was currently happening; she couldn’t just brush past it and continue as normal. She is, of course, speaking of the current sexual assault allegations and admissions from Hillary’s opponent, Donald Trump.
Since video footage emerged of Trump saying he could “grab women by the pussy” because of his fame and wealth, women have been coming forward all over the US to tell their story about being assaulted or intimidated by the mogul before he decided to run for President.
The First Lady is simply not having it. Her voice shakes as she speaks about what is currently happening, and says,
“This is not normal, this is not politics as usual. This is disgraceful, it is intolerable, and it doesn’t matter what party you belong to. No woman deserves to be treated this way — none of us deserves this kind of abuse.I can’t believe that I’m saying that a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women. I can’t stop thinking about this — it has shaken me to my core.I feel it so personally. It’s like that sick, sinking feeling you get when you’re walking down the street minding your own business and some guy yells out vulgar words about your body, or when you see that guy at work that stands just a little too close, stares a little too long so you feel uncomfortable in your own skin.I can tell you that the men in my life do not talk about women this way. To dismiss this as everyday locker-room talk is an insult to decent men everywhere.”
She encouraged voters to “stand up and say enough is enough” and denounce the sexual abuse and mistreatment of women, saying,
“We simply cannot endure this, or expose our children to this any longer — not for another minute, and let alone for four years.This has got to stop right now.”
Watch:
Source: NY Times.
Photo: C-Span.
