Video: Michelle Obama Rallies for Harris in Kalamazoo

Former first lady Michelle Obama spoke at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Kalamazoo, Michigan on October 26, 2024.

This video was submitted by Vox Populi frequent contributor Gerald Fleming:

I think it’s important for everyone to see, if you haven’t already, Michelle Obama’s magnificent speech in Michigan last night. It’s a tour de force rhetorically, of course, and an extraordinary appearance for a woman who does not like politics. But it’s more than that. It’s a clarion call whose content is essential—especially, I think, in the segment about women to women and about women to men. It’s long, but only about half as long as the usual deranged ramblings of the despicable Trump in his stump speeches.. 

I think this speech should be shared as widely as possible: it’s surely to be looked at historically as one of the most important of its time.

A personal note: my dad served two stints—one drafted and one volunteer, in World War II, some of which was in the 101st Airborne.. He was a lifelong Republican. Voted for Eisenhower. Nixon. But I can hear the clatter of his bones as he turns over in his grave in knowing that this fascist Trump is representing Republicans and might indeed be elected. We know that history does repeat itself—albeit different time, place, milieu. For me, born just a breath after WWII, I’m still in a state of shock that the European/wider history of that period—yesterday, really!—might indeed come to pass here.

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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, born January 17, 1964, is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017, being married to Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. 

Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. In her early legal career, she worked at the law firm Sidley Austinwhere she met her future husband. She subsequently worked in nonprofits and as the associate dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago. Later, she served as vice president for community and external affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Michelle married Barack in 1992, and they have two daughters.

Obama campaigned for her husband’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. She was the first African-American woman to serve as first lady. As first lady, Obama worked as an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity, and healthy eating. She has written three books including her memoir Becoming (2018) and The Light We Carry (2022). (source: Wiki)