{"id":113029,"date":"2024-10-11T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113029"},"modified":"2024-10-11T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:52:51","slug":"obama-tells-black-men-its-not-acceptable-to-sit-out-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113029","title":{"rendered":"Obama tells Black men it\u2019s \u2018not acceptable\u2019 to sit out election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\">Pittsburgh<\/span><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm242z953001o1unt8fnghvn0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Former President Barack Obama on Thursday admonished Black men who he believes have not adequately supported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/09\/politics\/harris-billion-fundraising-election\/index.html\">Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 presidential campaign<\/a>, telling them it\u2019s \u201cnot acceptable\u201d to sit out this election and suggesting they might be reluctant to vote for Harris because she\u2019s a woman.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24o7cb900053b6mxcdb2h9n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The striking comments by Obama, made to a small group of voters in a surprise stop at a local Harris campaign office in Pittsburgh, were part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/11\/politics\/obama-the-hopey-changey-guy-tries-to-close-the-deal-for-harris\/index.html\">more forceful campaign message<\/a> delivered by the former president on Thursday as polls continue to show a neck-and-neck race. At a\u00a0rally in the city later that evening,\u00a0Obama issued some of his most searing public criticisms of his successor to date.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24o6wcr00003b6m75b6rzh5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The lack of energy some see around Harris\u2019 campaign, Obama told the group, \u201cseems to be more pronounced with the brothers.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24o882u000a3b6mld1xdbla@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou\u2019re thinking about sitting out or supporting somebody (in former president Donald Trump) who has a history of denigrating you, because you think that\u2019s a sign of strength, because that\u2019s what being a man is? Putting women down?\u201d Obama said. \u201cThat\u2019s not acceptable.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24o882u000b3b6mv1yemf3p@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The problem, he suggested, was less complicated than some are making it out to be \u2013 and that it often comes down to sexism.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24o882u000c3b6mr5bswzxj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou\u2019re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses, I\u2019ve got a problem with that,\u201d Obama said. \u201cBecause part of it makes me think \u2013 and I\u2019m speaking to men directly \u2013 part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren\u2019t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you\u2019re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24o882u000d3b6me0lqt1v8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            As CNN reported, Harris had been focused on turning out Black men even before she took over as the Democratic nominee, trying to get the enthusiasm there for President Joe Biden.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24o882u000e3b6m2k9ppfke@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe concern is that the couch is going to win,\u201d one person close to the Harris team told CNN. \u201cWe need to make sure that Black men, Hispanic men, don\u2019t sit on the couch. Because if they don\u2019t vote at all. That\u2019s (a) vote for him.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24o882u000f3b6m7qib5nx7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In response to the Harris campaign\u2019s struggle to recreate, in short order, the multiracial Biden coalition of 2020, campaign operatives and allies have been offering a similar directive to the Obama delivered in Pittsburgh, often privately working to make the case to voters in\u00a0close-up, intimate spaces.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24o882u000g3b6mx3h31xie@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Last month in Milwaukee, Harris\u2019 brother-in-law, Anthony West, quietly attended a local meeting of the NAACP \u2013 a technically nonpartisan group whose members are filled with influential, mostly Democratic state activists and organizers.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24o882u000h3b6mkho74xdy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In a recording of the meeting obtained by CNN, he made the case for Harris in strong terms.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24o882u000i3b6mctb5a10c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cRemember you were raised by a strong Black woman, a strong Black woman took care of you, fed you, gave you an opportunity in life,\u201d West told the NAACP audience, urging those in attendance to take the message home.\n    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cm24o8n42000l3b6mw5wnxpbp@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"get-off-your-couch-and-vote\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n        \u2018Get off your couch and vote\u2019<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/video-resource\/instances\/cm24nvasd00013b6mxg2qqxlf@published\" data-component-name=\"video-resource\" data-editable=\"settings\" class=\"video-resource\" data-fixed-ratio=\"16x9\" data-parent-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/video-resource\/instances\/cm24mwale0001356mi7ej673n@published\" data-video-id=\"me5fd3f54f00742bc03d6a304cabaa37696b3ea1c0\" data-media-id=\"me5fd3f54f00742bc03d6a304cabaa37696b3ea1c0\" data-live=\"\" data-analytics-aggregate-events=\"true\" data-custom-experience=\"\" data-asset-type=\"hlsTs\" data-auth-type=\"none\" data-content-type=\"mediasource-clip\" data-medium-env=\"\" data-autostart=\"disabled\" data-show-ads=\"true\" data-source=\"CNN\" data-featured-video=\"true\" data-headline=\"Obama rebukes claims about Trump's economy\" data-has-video-player=\"true\" data-description=\"&lt;p&gt;During a speech at Vice President Kamala Harris'\u00a0campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, former President Barack Obama reacted to claims that the US economy was 'pretty good' when former President Donald Trump first entered office.&lt;\/p&gt;\" data-duration=\"00:56\" data-source-html=\"&lt;span class=&quot;video-resource__source&quot;&gt; 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Why would we go along with that?\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000i3b6mwgfmf5r0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Obama, addressing a buzzing crowd, drew sharp contrasts on policy and character \u2013 ripping Trump and talking up Harris on both fronts \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/10\/politics\/video\/barack-obama-trump-sell-stuff-digvid\">and cast his successor as the mascot for a dangerous<\/a> and increasingly nasty version of the country. Obama in past campaigns has relished mocking and criticizing Trump, but his speech and delivery on Thursday were stinging and unusually visceral.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000j3b6mkf1sal5c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf you had a family member who acted like (Trump), you might still love them, but you\u2019d tell \u2018em, \u2018You got a problem,\u2019 and you wouldn\u2019t put him in charge of anything,\u201d Obama said. \u201cAnd yet, when Donald Trump lies or cheats, or shows utter disregard for our Constitution, when he calls POWs \u2018losers\u2019 or fellow citizens \u2018vermin,\u2019 people make excuses for it.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000k3b6m4h4z8qre@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Turning his attention to voters who have expressed concern about Trump\u2019s potential return to the White House and others who might not be paying close attention to the campaign, Obama\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-harris-election-10-10-24\/index.html\">issued a blunt call to action<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000l3b6m9ydmqyi2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhether this election is making you feel excited or scared, or hopeful or frustrated, or anything in between, do not just sit back and hope for the best. Get off your couch and vote. Put down your phone and vote. Grab your friends and family and vote,\u201d Obama said. \u201cVote for Kamala Harris.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000m3b6mgzilwro6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Obama also sought to push back against an argument that has been at the core of Trump\u2019s campaign: That he represents a departure from the stale status quo.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000n3b6mrivivpv9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI get it why people are looking to shake things up. I mean, I am the \u2018hopey-changey\u2019 guy. I understand people feeling frustrated and feeling we can do better,\u201d Obama said. \u201cWhat I cannot understand is why anybody would think that Donald Trump will shake things up in a way that is good for you.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000o3b6mes5kbzb7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Throughout his speech, Obama described Trump as uniquely greedy and duplicitous.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000p3b6mvxcv9dkq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump\u2019s tax plan, he said, was a giveaway to \u201cto billionaires and big corporations.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000q3b6mkriuii4v@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump\u2019s pledge to impose harsh tariffs on foreign trade, Obama said, amounted to a glorified \u201csales tax\u201d that would cost the average family thousands of dollars.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000r3b6m1k8u3otc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump\u2019s claim to having guided a robust economy, he fumed, was ahistorical nonsense.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000s3b6m4xtqsttd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYeah, it was pretty good (when Trump took office in 2017) \u2013 because it was my economy,\u201d Obama said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t something he did. I had spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time. So just in case everybody has a hazy memory, he didn\u2019t do nothing except those big tax cuts.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000t3b6m9sigi3fp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump\u2019s promises, Obama concluded, were either outrageously false or dangerously simple.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm24348x4000u3b6mvr1fmwnl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf you challenge Trump to elaborate and enumerate his \u2018concepts,\u2019 he will fall back on one answer,\u201d Obama said. \u201cDoesn\u2019t matter what the issue is, housing, health care, education, paying the bills \u2013 their only answer is to blame immigrants.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph paragraph_contributors inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_contributors\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm242zb7c00003b6m1m53fehf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN\u2019s Eva McKend contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/10\/politics\/obama-pittsburgh-trump\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Former President Barack Obama on Thursday admonished Black men who he believes have not adequately supported Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 presidential campaign, telling them it\u2019s \u201cnot acceptable\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113029\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}