PoliticusUSA: Michelle Obama Annihilates Trump As The GOP’s Bad Week Just Got A Whole Lot Worse

[ailsagirl]

Just when Republicans thought that it couldn’t get worse, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke out against everything Donald Trump represents while addressing graduates at the CCNY commencement ceremony.

NOTE: The "good stuff" comes at 11:45 (it's all good but this is where she delivers her moral argument re who we are as a country)

The argument that Obama made against Trump was devastating because it wasn’t political. The argument that the First Lady made was a moral argument about who we are as a country. The question that First Lady Obama’s remarks asked the country is, does Donald Trump accurately represent who we are? If this election is contested on moral terms, Donald Trump has no chance of winning.

Trump and his angry Twitter account can’t match the power and popularity of President and First Lady Obama. Michelle Obama is speaking out, and the Republican Party’s bad week just got a whole lot worse.

[riversedge]

1. Thank you Michele Obama.

[gratuitous]

2. When you're taking the correct side of the discussion

It's pretty easy to dismantle the demagogue. Clearly, the entire Republican party and its apparatus were not equal to the task, which is how they got Donald Trump as their presidential nominee.

Democrats need to articulate their position, align it with the majority of Americans who believe in that position, and get about the business of cleaning this clown's clock come November.

[tanyev]

3. Nice. I sure hope we continue to see them a lot after they leave the White House.

[ailsagirl]

4. kick

[mountain grammy]

5. My favorite first lady in history has always been Eleanor Roosevelt,

but Michelle is extraordinary. I love this woman! I feel lucky to have been here while she graced America as our first lady.

[ailsagirl]

6. She IS extraordinary

I feel lucky, too.

I shall miss them!!!

[rug]

7. I just love all these Democrats finally pounding trump.

I hope it's relentless.

[ailsagirl]

8. It can only escalate

We still have SIX months to go-- that's a long time and a lot can happen.

[Arazi]

9. She's a bad ass! Love her and the President

[Henhouse]

10. "...every single day when I wake up in a house that was built by slaves..."

“More than anything else, graduates, that is the American story,” she said. “And, graduates, it’s the story that I witness every single day when I wake up in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters, two beautiful black young women, head off to school, waving goodbye to their father, the president of the United States; the son of a man from Kenya who came here to America for the same reasons as many of you: to get an education and improve his prospects in life.”

Ours is an imperfect country but our greatness is in our aspirations to be better then we were.

[AngryAmish]

11. Annihilates