Obama also paid tribute to President Joe Biden, saying he is a man he is “proud to call president, but even prouder to call my friend”
By Kehinde Okeowo
Former United States President, Barack Obama has urged fellow Americans to support Vice President, Kamala Harris in her 11th-hour bid to become the country’s next president, saying the US cannot afford “four more years of bluster and bumble and chaos”
He made the plea while taken to the stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Tuesday.
Speaking at the event he said, “We don’t need four more years of bluster and bumble and chaos. We’ve seen that movie – and we all know that the sequel’s usually worse.”
Obama, who walked onto the stage in Chicago to deafening applause from a crowd that had just heard from Obama’s wife Michelle and Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff, also paid tribute to President Joe Biden, saying he is a man he is “proud to call president, but even prouder to call my friend”.
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The first Black American ever elected to the White House, went on to aim a dig at his successor and Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
“Here is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago. There’s the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes.” the 44th American president added.
While hailing Democratic Party’s VIce presidential candidate, Tim Walz, Obama said, “Let me tell you something. I love this guy… You can tell those flannel shirts he wears don’t come from some political consultant, they come from his closet, and they have been through some stuff.”
He further emphasized the need for Kamala Harris to become the US president in November saying, ” We live in a culture that puts a premium on things that don’t last. Money, fame, status, likes. We chase the approval of strangers on our phones. We build all walls and fences around ourselves, and then we wonder why we feel so alone.”