Our forever POTUS Barack Obama is truly always only one call away when it’s time to remind us that our votes matter. His latest campaign stops for Democratic candidates head of midterm elections prove that his commitment to our country has never ceased.
In Ohio, the former president hit the campaign trails for Amy Acton, the party’s nominee for governor, and former Sen. Sherrod Brown, and let the chopper spray on Trump and the incompetence of the Republican Party. In a such a meaningful midterm election, Obama’s presence and powerful oratory skills are a battle cry to get people to the polls despite the corruption being allowed to run wild in Washington.
“Now, two years ago, there were a lot of people who weren’t crazy about the guy’s character, but they were frustrated about post-Covid inflation,” Obama told the crowd. “They were seeing prices go up, and they heard him make a bunch of promises to get costs under control. In this case, this administration’s actions are directly responsible for rising costs. The current president chose to make a series of bad decisions. Most importantly, he decided to start an unnecessary war that nobody asked for, nobody voted for.”
He continued,
“After two years of chaos and cruelty and corruption and incompetence, the likes of which we have not seen in modern times, you get the chance to say, ‘Enough’s enough. We are going to change right here in Ohio.’”
Barack also had words for one of Trump’s wildest cronies, Vivek Ramaswamy, who disgustingly used his opponent Acton’s child sexual abuse against her in a disturbing ad which features her estranged mother. An ad that Trump threw his support behind when asked about the whether or not it crossed a line.
“We all know that guy — who is, like, thirsty,” Obama said about the ad and Ramaswamy. “Just wants to get attention no matter what, willing to do anything. And in recent days we’ve seen there is no line he won’t cross. I don’t know what’s happened where the standards of behavior have gotten so low that somebody can run an ad like that.”
Obama also made a stop in Michigan to stand beside Jocelyn Benson and Abdul El-Sayed as they make their bid for governor and senator respectively. El-Sayed has been on the receiving end of quite a bit of xenophobia and ignorance, something Barack knows well. However, the former professor’s run has been well-received in the state with lots of young voters flocking to his campaign. With many citing the similarities between he and Obama as candidates on ran on the ability to unite rather than divide.
“When you’ve campaigned in as many elections as I have,” Barack said in a post. “You can tell when an election comes along that just feels a little bit different—an election where people are so ready for something new, so hungry for something better, so sick and tired of being sick and tired that everywhere you go, it feels like change is in the air.”
Remember to exercise your right to vote this year!
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