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Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 2005 to 2008 and served in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004. Obama is known for his signature policies including the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and his efforts in economic recovery following the 2008 financial crisis. His presidency was marked by significant legislative achievements and a focus on healthcare reform, climate change, and foreign policy initiatives such as the Iran nuclear deal.
Joe knows that the first job of a president is to keep us safe from all threats, foreign, domestic, or microscopic. When the daily intelligence briefings flash warning signs about a virus, a president can't ignore them. He can't be AWOL…
I love coming to Pennsylvania. You guys delivered for me twice and I am back here tonight to ask you to deliver the White House for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
So Joe is not going to screw up testing. He's not going to call scientists idiots. He's not going to host a super-spreader event at the White House.
This idea that somehow this White House has done anything but completely screw this up is just not true.
Eight months into this pandemic, cases are rising again across this country. Donald Trump isn't suddenly going to protect all of us. He can't even take the basic steps to protect himself.
It is not a great idea to have a president who owes a bunch of money to people overseas. That's not a good idea.
This was just reported in the last 48 hours. We know that he continues to do business with China because he has a secret Chinese bank account. How is that possible?
With Joe and Kamala at the helm, you are not going to have to think about the crazy things they said every day. And that's worth a lot. You're not going to have to argue about them every day. It just won't be so exhausting.
I can tell you, the presidency doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are. Donald Trump isn't suddenly going to protect all of us. He can't even take the basic steps to protect himself. Joe knows that a first -- the first job of a…
This pandemic would have been challenging for any president. But this idea that somehow this White House has done anything but completely screw this up is just not true.
With Joe and Kamala at the helm, you're not going to have to think about the crazy things they said every day. You'll be able to go about your lives knowing that the President is not going to retweet conspiracy theories about secret…
Having healthcare as a basic human right is probably one of the most important things that's happened to this country since the New Deal.
I think it was really based around this idea that, you know, wanting to remind people that their voice matters.
I never thought Donald Trump would embrace my vision, or continue my policies. But I did hope for the sake of the country, that he might show some interest in taking the job seriously. But it hasn't happened. He hasn't shown any interest…
Our democracy is not going to work if the people who are supposed to be our leaders, lie everyday, and just make things up. I mean, and we've just become numb to it, we just become immune to it every single day.
What? What? We're not going to have a president that goes out of his way to insult anybody who doesn't support him or threaten them with jail. That's not normal presidential behavior.
People vote when they see other people voting, when they see their peer group voting. So I think that the most important thing we can do in these closing 12, 13 days is for us all to model and advertise that it's the cool thing and the…
This is not a reality show, this is reality. And the rest of us have had to live with the consequences of him proving himself incapable of taking the job seriously.
When I was elected, we had the highest African-American turnout in history, but it was still only about 60 percent. Yes. When people say voting doesn't make a difference, we've never tried what it would look like if it was 80 percent…
He continues to do business with China, because he's got a secret Chinese bank account. How is that possible? How is that possible? A secret Chinese bank account. Listen, can you imagine if I had had a secret Chinese bank account when I…
You'll be able to go about your lives knowing that the president is not going to retweet conspiracy theories about secret cabals running the world or that Navy SEALs didn't actually kill bin Laden.
He hasn't shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends or treating the presidency like a reality show that he can use to get attention.
I'm very proud of my presidency, but I didn't immediately solve systemic racism by virtue of me being president. We didn't immediately lift everybody out of poverty or fix every school or address every issue and impediment that was going…
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