An angry Obama puts himself on the ballot
The president delivers a rip-roaring speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner.
By Edward-Isaac Dovere
09/17/16 11:11 PM EDT
It was part mockery, part shock-to-the-system wake-up call.
Donald Trump is a nasty, hateful charlatan selling a false message to African-Americans and the rest of the country that puts everything President Barack Obama has done in office and stood for at risk, Obama said Saturday night, in a rip-roaring speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner in Washington.
Declaring he would consider it “a personal insult, an insult to my legacy” if black turnout falters for Hillary Clinton, Obama did what he got reamed for doing almost exactly two years ago, in the heat of midterm elections in which disdain for him was the defining force: Yes, he said, he is pretty much on the ballot in November.
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