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The Obamas Endorse Harris: 'This Is Going to Be Historic'

The former president and first lady threw their weight behind the presumptive Democratic nominee

Barack and Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination for president, sharing the news in a joint phone call.

A video released by the campaign suggests the former president and first lady called Harris on Thursday while the vice president was in Houston, where she addressed the American Federation of Teachers and received a briefing on recovery efforts following Hurricane Beryl.

“We called to say, Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office,” Barack Obama is heard telling Harris in a 55-second video of the call.

“This is going to be historic,” Michelle Obama tells Harris.

leadore ,
@leadore@lemmy.world avatar

Brace yourself for a massive disinformation campaign against Harris as soon as they recover from the initial shock. Don’t buy into any crap you see about her going forward. Eat no for breakfast.

TranscendentalEmpire ,

Don’t buy into any crap you see about her going forward. Eat no for breakfast.

This is the exact attitude that led Republicans into being able to believe that Trump is an upright and moral citizen…

No one should write a blank check of virtue for any politician. Valid criticism is important, without it we’re just going to be led around by the nose by those who have access to power.

If we don’t hold liberal politicians to the same standards we utilize for conservatives, then we will end up with the same type of shit bags they have.

Badeendje ,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

There is a biiiig difference in the timing and source of the news. And especially in the short term every new bit of news about her should at least be treated as suspect.

TranscendentalEmpire ,

No news should be taken at face value in the modern era, that doesn’t mean we can just tell people to just say no to any criticism about her.

For example… I don’t appreciate her little memo equating protesting a genocide to antisemitism. Is the memo she posted from her personal Twitter account just fake news?

Shawdow194 ,
@Shawdow194@kbin.run avatar

Republicans: > "We want change and Biden out"
Democrats: > "Great, vote for Harris"
Republicans: > "noOoo noT like tHat!"

danc4498 ,

That’s not allowed!!! Call the foul ref!!!

andrew_bidlaw ,
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

‘Stop counting!’, says the man who thinks math is what you burn and inhale if you are poor.

ryan213 ,
@ryan213@lemmy.ca avatar

Well, that’s surprising. /s

MyOpinion ,

Republicans are so angry these days with Harris. First it was the Obama’s did not indorse her because she can’t win now they are just really angry. They know they are going to lose. I love it.

Steve ,

This is frustrating. She couldn’t handle a primary run 5 years ago. Now the entire Party is just lining up as if she’s unquestionably the greatest candate the world has to offer.

Prior to this, the only Democrat less popular than her, was Biden.

Nobody knows what she’ll actually do in office because she’s only ever said or supported whatever will help her at the moment.

SteveFromMySpace ,

She isn’t on death’s door, she doesn’t want to jail people for pronouns, she supports a woman’s right to choose, the list goes on. The election is months away and it’s likely her vs trump.

Consider rolling up your sleeves and working on social and political causes to help see people and policies you like make it to the top. I have personally found it very fulfilling to volunteer at the local and state level in particular.

Love her or hate her, she is better than Trump in literally every way. The decision is obvious and complaining won’t put someone you like more on the ballot.

Steve ,

Is that really the best we can hope for? Or ask for? Someone who’s better than Trump?

dwindling7373 ,

Feel free to fund an entirely new party or even a new constitution, in the meantime you just need to take 2 hours off your massive, world changing project and vote for Kamala Harris.

Samvega ,

If people are only ever given the choice between a terrible option and a mediocre option, they will start to question the system which gives them these choices.

dwindling7373 ,

Apparently not.

Steve ,

I’ve been donating monthly to the Forward Party since it started. I could work on a new constitution.

idiomaddict ,

Great, please do.

KevonLooney ,

I thought you were going to say:

“Is that really the best we can hope for? ‘Working on social and political causes to help see people and policies you like make it to the top’?”

And I was like “yeah, it is the best we can hope for”.

Steve ,

That is what I’m asking for. Everyone else seems content with backing a “winner”.

KevonLooney ,

I don’t know if you understand. People are donating and volunteering, for Kamala Harris. You don’t want more participation, You just want people to support your personally chosen candidate (who remains nameless).

Steve ,

I haven’t seen one I like this cycle. Neither major party has nominated one I really liked in 40 years. The Dems came close a couple times.

tamal3 ,

It really is amazing how poor our choices are. There are many competent humans out there, but it’s not obvious from our options. Seems like a direct result of the 2 party winner-takes-all political system.

SteveFromMySpace ,

I haven’t seen one I like this cycle

Not one person? Really? You want people to satisfy you with a good candidate this November and you can’t even name one you like?

This is why people ready to vote blue this November get annoyed at these conversations. You aren’t serious people.

jj4211 ,

This sentiment is really impractical in a functional democracy of over 300 million people, if you can’t find anyone in 20 candidates that have run over the past 40 years from the two major parties you were willing to vote for.

Your perfect candidate that you hold out for isn’t going to be the perfect candidate for a lot of people. Part of the whole give and take is building consensus around most broadly acceptable candidates, rather than just taking your ball and going home when none of the viable candidates perfectly suite you.

Steve ,

Oh I voted in every election since I could. Just never for someone I believed in. It was only ever hope.

jj4211 ,

Ah, well that’s reasonable sounding. Perhaps the burden of understanding nuance of candidates is that you’ll always be disappointed when it comes time to reconcile with millions of others.

tamal3 ,

I hear you, but it’s also fun to see how excited Democrats are right now. It’s partly shock and relief at Biden dropping out, but I think there’s also real excitement in the mix!

Steve ,

That’s true. Even I’ve felt a couple times.

Asidonhopo ,

I’m skeptical but giving her a chance. Apparently her voting record in the Senate wasnt that far off from Bernies general position (although not “statistically closest to Bernie” like this circulated meme was saying)

At least she seems like she’s got some good energy and getting people engaged to vote and participate.

Gerudo ,

My wife and I have never been the biggest fans of Harris. We said the night Biden stepped down that she was the natural pick, but not the best pick.

She and her team have changed our minds. Harris actually attacking Trump and the right, embracing a younger crowd, along with some policies that she has mentioned, have us on board. Give her some time to lay out HER platform, not just Biden 2.0, and I think she’s going to surprise a lot of people. I am one of those excited.

postmateDumbass ,

If anything, it will be stuff from California that she has to worry about. Always been clouds around her but nothing specific i can recall.

Samvega ,

Is that really the best we can hope for?

I don’t expect the human world to meet my moral standards. That might sound sad, but it preserves my sanity.

Steve ,

It is sad, and it makes me depressed.

Samvega ,

My moral standards are special because I hold myself to them, regardless of whether anyone else cares.

kent_eh ,

Is that really the best we can hope for?

Got any actual suggestions, or are you only here to complain that any candidate isn’t a 100% perfect match for everything you want in the world?

Steve ,

I’d be thrilled for someone who isn’t an obvious self centered opertunist. Someone with principals that aren’t power for its own sake. I thought that was Obama. Honestly I still believe he has that in him. I know it’s Bernie, and Yang. I’m sure there are more out there. But our system itself keeps them from getting to the top.

tootoughtoremember ,

In July, of an election year, in the US? Yes, that’s the best you get.

Make a time machine, convince Biden to drop out 8-12 months ago, then you can have your open primary season.

Steve ,

That’s a plan, I can get behind.
But I would go to 5 years ago.

BananaOnionJuice ,
@BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Why go 5 years when you could go back and ensure the convicted felon loses to Hilary.

Steve ,

That’s a good point. And a better plan.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

You know who else couldn’t handle a primary run (twice) before they were elected president? Joe Biden.

Steve ,

Yah. I don’t know why anyone thought he was a good option either.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

And yet he won despite you not knowing why.

Steve ,

Is winning the only hurdle? That’s so depressing.

Rentlar ,

It is very depressing, yes. But a candidate that is 10/10 on every possible good measure that loses to Trump due to Democratic infighting, will be a worse outcome to someone that is mediocre in some respects but can win. It is the most important hurdle, and at the very least I can say the Democrats have some semblance of a strategy now that they didn’t have before, and that’s reason for hope.

Steve ,

I’d be happy for 5/10

Shawdow194 ,
@Shawdow194@kbin.run avatar

Then vote for that candidate

aesthelete ,

I’d be happy

I’ll believe it when I see it.

Steve ,

Yah. That’s fair.

I’m not sure I’ve even been truly happy since I was a child who didn’t know anything.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

When it comes to stopping Project 2025? Yes, that is the only hurdle. Work on the rest after that.

Steve ,

That’s not something well ever “stop”. That’s an ongoing eternal fight. And you don’t win by only playing defense. You need to try to score also.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

We will never stop a specific agenda that has been laid out in great detail in a plan Americans are souring to the more they hear about it?

The sounds like what some people told me about Biden in 2020. Why vote for him? He’s the same as Trump.

Except he isn’t. By most measures.

Steve ,

Who said that? Did I? I never said any of that. Read my previous comment again.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Your previous comment:

That’s not something we’ll ever “stop”. That’s an ongoing eternal fight.

My response:

We will never stop a specific agenda that has been laid out in great detail in a plan Americans are souring to the more they hear about it?

Then I told you a different claim that your comment sounded like.

So yes, you did say that it is not something that we will never stop.

Steve ,

Did the agenda get stopped? Project 2025 exists. So the right wing religous agenda is ongoing, is it not?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

What a strange question. The agenda didn’t get stopped because the election hasn’t happened yet. Which is why they need to be beaten first so it can be stopped.

You do understand that it’s called “Project 2025” because they want to implement it in 2025, right?

Steve ,

Project 2025 exists because electing Biden didnt stop anything. P25 is simply the latest label for the same agenda that’s been going on since forever. That’s what never ends.

The conservative religious right has waxed and waned for millennia. But it never stops.

You’re missing the forest to the trees.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Okay, well then I guess we should give up. You’re right, don’t vote for Harris. She doesn’t pass the purity test. Let Trump win.

Steve ,

I never had a chance to vote for her. I was never offered any other options. That’s what my first comment was all about.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Did you canvass for anyone else to challenge Biden in a primary?

Steve ,

Would there have been a debate if I had?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Possibly. But you clearly didn’t canvass. If you’re not going to put in the work to canvass for another candidate, it’s pretty silly to complain that you weren’t given a choice.

Candidates don’t get on ballots by magic. It takes work.

Steve ,

No they wouldn’t. The party leaders were all in on Biden until 3 weeks ago. The last thing they want is for the public to choose “their” candate.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a great excuse for never trying, isn’t it? “They don’t want us to do it.”

ImADifferentBird ,
@ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Biden couldn’t handle a primary run in 2008, but he killed in 2020.

Times change. Circumstances change. People change. And if the enthusiasm that has come out over the past week, both from her and from the party base, is any indication, Harris in 2024 is in a much better place than she was in 2020.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly, after his failed 1987 primary challenge, I’m surprised he ever got back on his feet in terms of politics at all.

He plagiarized a speech by a British politician and got caught, he was involved in a scandal involving his law school grades and he lied about his participation in the civil rights movement (or at least greatly exaggerated it).

en.wikipedia.org/…/Joe_Biden_1988_presidential_ca…

On top of that, after dropping out, he had two brain aneurysms.

It’s pretty amazing he got elected president in 2020.

Samvega ,

It’s pretty amazing he got elected president in 2020.

America is a country where some areas have such high rates of diabetes, people fully expect to lose limbs due to circulation issues.

It seems that you can simply train many people to expect their options to limited.

Orbituary ,
@Orbituary@lemmy.world avatar

Biden didn’t kill it in 2020. Bernie won the first few states, so the DNC freaked out and pushed the other candidates to drop out and endorse Joe. After that, the media lined up to declare him the presumptive nominee. The DNC hates progressives.

Kamala was a better speaker than Joe in 2020. Her comments about being one of the black kids on the busses aimed at Biden was accurate and scathing. But she followed the party mandate and bowed out.

Why is everyone’s memory so short about these things?

She’s a far sight better than Trump or Biden.

Zipitydew ,

Bernie won a couple states that never help determine the election. Then Biden won by a lot in swing states. If Bernie won swing states it would be different. He didn’t. His appeal isn’t and wasn’t as good in the specific places the Presidency is won.

It sucks because I picked him in both primaries. But the reality is Biden had broader appeal where it mattered. Any Dem candidate is going get 170 EC votes along the coasts. It’s between the coasts where the election is won. And Biden did better in all those places.

Orbituary ,
@Orbituary@lemmy.world avatar

To my point, he was doing better until the others started to drop out. But that’s all academic now. My opinion hardly matters, but I stand by my belief that the DNC hates progressive politics and would rather lose than support a populist progressive.

Zipitydew ,

Pete won Iowa, Bernie won New Hampshire and Nevada. Everyone (6 total candidates) was still in for South Carolina which Biden dominated. Pete and Amy dropped out at that point. But Bloomberg joined and Warren was still in. Gabbard was too but we all know was a joke candidate.

Biden was against 4 options going into Super Tuesday. Biden won 10 of the 15 primaries on Super Tuesday. Came in 2nd for the couple he didn’t win. After that is when Bloomberg got chased back out, and Warren dropped out realizing she was stripping votes from Bernie.

Bernie was ahead for all of 3 weeks. And at that point only 3 states were in. What truly happened in that time is a lot of media spin. Because they had nothing much to report on and kept belaboring over almost nothing of consequence. By the time my chance landed here in Illinois it was obvious Biden had it in the bag. Bernie dropped out himself only a couple weeks after.

Asidonhopo ,

Kamala is apparently more progressive than we knew, her voting record was pretty close to Bernie’s in the Senate. By being the vp and then Biden dropping out we seem to have gotten a more prog candidate than we could have otherwise?

TheDemonBuer ,
@TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world avatar

Nobody knows what she’ll actually do in office

I don’t have any reason to believe Harris would do anything radically different than what Biden would have done. That makes her far from ideal, in my opinion, but nonetheless still much better than Trump. That’s the only thing the Democrats really have going for them at this point: they remain better than the only other viable political alternative. Admittedly, that is a LOW bar, in my opinion, but that’s where we are in America right now. I have given up trying to make America the way I want to be, and am instead focused primarily on harm reduction.

Steve ,

Agreed. Just kind of more of the same seems likely. I just think we could use and deserve better.

Nastybutler ,

Other than his stance on Palestine, I think Joe (and his administration) did an excellent job under the circumstances. He was the right man at the right time

Steve ,

His domestic work was acceptable. My only gripe there is not pushing harder on the minimum wage. He could’ve replace the parliamentarian.

MagicShel ,

Oh. Look. It’s the exact message we all knew was coming. “Good thing we got rid of Biden, but now we have another terrible candidate.”

Steve ,

Yes! Exactly!
All the Democrats seem capable of, are terrible presidential candates. Obama seemed like a great candate for a … Change. But turned out to be quite mid.

Plopp ,

Prior to this, the only Democrat less popular than her, was Biden.

Well at least she’s more popular than Biden then.

Steve ,

Yes. That’s our great hope. Someone slightly better than the worst option.

Plopp ,

I mean, it is what it is, sadly. It’s basically impossible to get good candidates in a flawed first past the post system where there are only two realistic parties and both are controlled by the corporate elite that benefit from the status quo. Good candidates get squashed.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

she was in a primary with biden in the center and about 15 other progressives on the left. she was always popular; it’s just bernie occupied the left flank of the primary and everyone else was crumbs.

Xanis ,

Alright. Here’s your chance:

Who would you choose?

Be prepared to defend your answer.

Steve ,

No idea.
The party never presented any real chance to compare options. That’s the problem. We could’ve had a dozen debates with anyone polling over 0.1%. Like the Republicans. But that never happened.

If we had, maybe it’d be clear she’s the best choice.

Xanis ,

You know these things about Harris and yet can’t supply us with a single potential alternative? Now I am aware you’re likely no expert. Though to have a fair opinion one must be able to account at least somewhat for both sides of the equation.

Please stop dismissing Harris if you can’t make even the smallest argument for why someone else may be better. It’s potentially damaging and right now, as much as I wish we could debate about it for hours, we need to stop fascism first.

edit: By the way, thank you for admitting you don’t know. That alone is something we should all respect.

Steve ,

Who dismissed Harris?

Isn’t Fascism the one where leaders are chosen by an elite few, without the input of the public?

Got_Bent ,

Michelle: When they go low we go high.

Kamala: Let the meme trolling begin!

If we do end up descending into a Draconian hellhole of an autocratic dictatorship at least the election run-up is going to be exponentially more entertaining than it was going to be with Joe.

I say that dictatorship part because don’t think for a second that the GOP is gonna just roll over and die. Expect hard-line challenges to vote counts in every single swing state.

ChronosTriggerWarning ,

I say that dictatorship part because don’t think for a second that the GOP is gonna just roll over and die. Expect hard-line challenges to vote counts in every single swing state.

I’ve been saying this since Sunday. We just blew up the Death Star, but the Empire is still a threat. The fight ain’t over, yet.

NewNewAccount ,

How did we blow up the Death Star? No victories have been achieved yet.

This is more like Han hanging over the reigns of the Millenium Falcon to Lando in RotJ. The battle hasn’t even begun.

WindyRebel ,

Well, I can’t wait to see who’s chosen to play Nien Nunb.

disguy_ovahea ,

The list of things “the Democrats want to take away” is going to be massive.

Nastybutler ,

So far their biggest whinge is plastic straws. Not the hill most voters are willing to die on

Kellamity ,
  • guns
  • freedom
  • profitable good healthcare
  • freedom
  • national security
  • guns
  • white supremacy The American Way
  • Your rights if you count
  • christianity?
  • freedom
  • transphobia family values
  • the cops’ ability to commit unchecked violence
  • guns and freedom
  • 1940s textbooks

All of these things are at risk.

Reverendender ,

Donald Trump could very well roll over and die and I would be ok with that. The only downside is not getting to know that he is in prison being miserable

Got_Bent ,

Somehow he’d still have a voice in prison. Kinda like all those interviews with Ted Bundy and Charles Manson et al.

His biggest misery would be to be alive and completely silenced.

idiomaddict ,

So a stroke.

Well, he’s old as fuck and eats McDonald’s for most meals. I’m also not sure if anyone would notice, so there’s a good chance it would be a bad one.

billiam0202 ,

The Heritage Foundation and its plan to cement autocratic fascist rule in the US will survive Trump.

leadore ,
@leadore@lemmy.world avatar

Which is why they got trump to pick Vance for VP, who is young and all in on project 2025, to be their chosen figurehead for the future. They don’t care about or like trump; they’re just using him as their vehicle to get in power and that’s it. After that they’re fine with/hoping for him to drop dead ASAP after the inauguration so they can usher in their full agenda. Meantime trump is only the symbolic figurehead and if by chance he doesn’t go along with their plans (unlikely), they can always use the 25th Amendment to get rid of him.

Reverendender ,

I can’t imagine a Vance presidency

vxx ,

There’s a “simple” solution to prevent their civil war plans. You got to crush them at the voting stations so hard that every question about foul play gets destroyed in its roots.

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