Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris, giving her expected but crucial support

All those conservatives who spent this week pontificating and nattering about the Obamas’ lack of endorsement need fret no more.

Well, actually they’ll be fretting a whole lot more.

So much for Obama doesn't think that Kamala win nonsense.

The endorsement, announced Friday in a video showing Harris accepting a joint phone call from the former first couple, comes as Harris builds momentum as their party’s likely nominee after President Joe Biden’s decision to end his reelection bid and endorse his second-in-command against Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump.

Second powerful video put out by the campaign. They are wasting no time.

 giving the vice president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation’s two most popular Democrats.

To be expected, and many far right conspiracy theories soon to be to be expected from those spouting "replacement theory', 'anti-DEI' and other wack beliefs of identity politics. These true believers have been led to think it's President Obama backed by George Soros manipulating things. But Rupert M. has made himself and his family billions off the poorly educated gullible sorts that think grifters like Trump and Vance care one white about America, or anything else besides their respective bank accounts. The Kremlin media have provided Murdoch and many others in western media with disinformation, which has been parroted by the Kremlin's useful idiots on social media.

Well, Trump has Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock,...lets see Obama beat that.!!!

Harris to Trump: Let's have a debate!

Trump to Harris: Buk-buk-buk . . . Buk-baauukk!

Fake endorsement is just as bad as no endorsement.

It also highlights the friendship and potentially historic link between the nation's first Black president and the first woman, first Black woman and first person of Asian descent to serve as vice president, who is now vying to break those barriers at the presidential rank.

Highly intelligent, articulate POC like the Obamas are the bête noire of Trump.

They highlight how much his unearned privilege of wealth and connections just produced strings of failed businesses, a wasted education and an inarticulate mush-mouthed mess.

Trump was roasted by Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, D.C.. and went on his Birtherism conspiracy mania.

I think Trump didn't even realize the deep well of racism and conspiratorial thinking he could tap into and exploit.

Now you can see him and his MAGA cult trying to turn the same energy on Harris.

zibala

Fake endorsement is just as bad as no endorsement.

They made a video out of it! This is no fake endorsement.

They made a video out of it! This is no fake endorsement.

Like a movie? Where people act?

Trump is hiding in his Palace not knowing how to Tackle this Lady, one Analyst put it like this:

""Since 2016 Trumps last election run 20 million baby boomers have died, and 40 million Gen X has arrived ready to vote and 60% of those are Democrats, Mr. Trump can't attack VP Harris the way he attacked Mrs. Clinton 8 years ago and if he does he will drive all these young women and angry men into Mrs. Harris arms.""

zibala

They made a video out of it! This is no fake endorsement.

Like a movie? Where people act?

Yup. And it is very effective.

Hi Obama!

shes still losing all the swing states.

tell her she doesn’t need to hold the phone to her ear when it’s….on speaker. lol

tell her she doesn’t need to hold the phone to her ear when it’s….on speaker. lol

Good one!

No doubt. Seeing how trump almost got JFKed, they’re probably shaking in them boots.

Hervé L'EisaToday 07:39 am JST

However, the majority of polling doesn't bode well for Ms Kackler. A significant portion both dems and "independents" are less than enthusiastic about the undemocratic manner that the previously touted candidate was unceremoniously ousted.

You could probably measure the concern in the low double digits.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-president-democrats-opinion-poll-07-22-2024/

In any event, she is up against Captain Insurrection and the party of that hasn't won the popular vote in 20 years.

And it's no surprise the ardent Marxists would support a fellow Marxist.

Along with the Birther conspiracy the modern red-baiting McCarthyism seemed to have got its start around the Obama admin.

I doubt you could find a president other than Bush or Reagan who had a more neo-lib, and neo-con list of accomplishments foreign and domestic than Barack Obama.

But it is easier and lazier to just label anything you oppose as "Marxist".

The dumbing down of American political discourse.

Well, Trump has Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock,...lets see Obama beat that.!!!

Celebrity endorsements can be very powerful, but everyone keeps forgetting about poor old Chachi. Why is that? Oh, right.

Looking forward to seeing what happens when Taylor gives hers and gets the Swifties onboard.

Harris is going to win in November.

And Trump is going to deny and attempt to overturn the results. Unsuccesfully.

Past precedence.

> All those conservatives who spent this week pontificating and nattering about the Obamas’ lack of endorsement need fret no more. 

Well, actually they’ll be fretting a whole lot more.

Not at all, but it was strange why the Obama’s didn’t endorse her immediately, that is very telling because usual it won’t take that long, but now they do, after a week….ok

Celebrity endorsements can be very powerful, but everyone keeps forgetting about poor old Chachi. Why is that? Oh, right.

But Clooney and Roberts are powerful? You kidding me?

Looking forward to seeing what happens when Taylor gives hers and gets the Swifties onboard.

I’m looking forward when all the middle class find out that Kamala wants to ban oil and supports defunding the police and ICE.

So that’s the youth vote, Black vote and women’s vote sewn up. How many angry white men are there in the US? I don’t think it’s half.

I’m looking forward when all the middle class find out that Kamala wants to ban oil and supports defunding the police and ICE.

Do you think they’ll believe she wants to ban meat, then cows and someday people?

45 and his empty headed flock do.

You don’t believe that do you?

The Obamas and Harris kept Trump off the headlines all week.

Support for Kamala continues to grow, she is rising in the polls, Trump is scared and is looking for an excuse not to debate with Kamala..

Trump knows that Kamala is a prosecutor and knows how to deal with Trump's kind..

What a dilemma—“should I support this extremely incompetent candidate or continue with this deafening silence”—a problem of your own making, Obama—the DP ain’t democratic anymore. Poor Joe.

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We called to say Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office,” the former president told Harris, who is shown taking the call as she walks backstage at an event, trailed by a Secret Service agent.

Cringy af—because it wasn’t natural and genuine. Lmao.

bass4funk

Not at all, but it was strange why the Obama’s didn’t endorse her immediately, that is very telling because usual it won’t take that long, but now they do, after a week….ok

It's called a dramatic pause. And it is effective.

If Barak Obama was genuine in his endorsement for Kamala Harris nomination, Obama would have been lock-step behind Joe Biden, when Biden decision to turn the US election on its head suddenly became known.

Joe Biden insisting for weeks that he would remain the Democratic nominee, then only to bow to pressure dropping out of the race, throwing his approval fully behind Harris. Including over $100 million dollars plus of campaign funding.

At this point Obama refused to endorse kamala Harris, a clear “hedging of bets” for an “open nomination process” at the DNC convention, in the vain hope for another more competent candidate to emerge.   

Obama is a ruthless political operator, a manipulator, untrustworthy, a masterclass of self-interest laced with insincerity, measured, inclined to devious cunning manoeuvring.

Now suddenly a grinning, supporting, “Michelle and I” convert.  All calculated in its disingenuousness.

At least Harris can see hear Donald Trump coming, Obama false appearance, the Obama skilled "putting on an act" sunk Hillary Clinton, as Julian Assange many thousands of cables have proven.

The Obamas and Harris kept Trump off the headlines all week.

Yes, give the man a break for once.

Support for Kamala continues to grow, she is rising in the polls, Trump is scared and is looking for an excuse not to debate with Kamala..

Trump is not scared, when you have Kamala’s record to go with, it’s more of a comforting relief actually

Trump knows that Kamala is a prosecutor and knows how to deal with Trump's kind..

And to that point is where the fish will take the bait and get snagged. Lol

Since the Obamas endorsement of Harris is bringing to light how Trump's Birtherism and Tea Party conspiratorialism led to the MAGA cult of today, remember how Trump and the GOP used the specter of 'death panels' to fight against universal healthcare?

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-36180872

The former president’s speech was especially notable because he unveiled a full-throated attack on Trump as a threat to democracy, an argument that endures as part of Harris’ campaign.

The corporate funded MAGA movement needs to be stopped.

zibala

The Obamas and Harris kept Trump off the headlines all week.

This issue has nothing to do with you--and vice versa.

It has something to do with anyone who wants to comment even a non-American like you.

Do you think they’ll believe she wants to ban meat, then cows and someday people?

You believe that Trump will destroy Iran?

45 and his empty headed flock do. 

Kamala and….well, Kamala….lol

You don’t believe that do you?

Do you?

So that’s the youth vote, Black vote and women’s vote sewn up.

https://youtu.be/Et2mFBqaklc?si=EiuwwgKX1doS33mU

Far from it

How many angry white men are there in the US? I don’t think it’s half.

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Barack Obama just endorsed Joe Biden a few weeks ago and he was still losing. Not much of an endorsement.

Joe Biden supposedly had the Black vote, young vote and women vote sewn up too. Was still losing.

Kamala has the momentum! Still losing just 2 points better of losing than Biden

Now that Kamala is there, they claiming she increased the Black vote by 17 points over Biden and is now at 90%!

wait….we were being lied to and Joe was really only getting 73% of the Black vote?

MAGA is a band on the run.

I mean it’s quite suspicious that she would immediately surge that much with African Americans who had decided to not vote for Democrat nominee Biden.

Even more so considering neither Jamaica nor India are in Africa.

Kamala was lauded as an Indian American Senator from California as recently as her 2016 election.

How many angry white men are there in the US? I don’t think it’s half.

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Angry white men are more than half of the US? Are you sure about that Bass?

Obama endorsement was so powerful that Joe had to drop out weeks later. With Obama stooge George Clooney setting it off.

Joe couldn’t win, even with the Obama endorsement.

either Obama was fake and duplicitous when he endorsed Joe recently or just irrelevant.

Even more so considering neither Jamaica nor India are in Africa.

As someone who self labels themselves "Black" you seem totally unaware of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Vice President Harris’s campaign is dubbing Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) a “disaster” as former President Trump’s choice of a running mate, suggesting Trump could be soon be regretting his decision.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4794471-harris-jd-vance-trump-disaster/

Angry white men are more than half of the US?

And angry blacks are 13% of the U.S.? All of them

Are you sure about that Bass?

Looking the polls, would seem so

Even more so considering neither Jamaica nor India are in Africa.

Your Federal Government officially designate Jamaican ancestry US citizens as African American. Fact.

Jamaican ancestry is linked to the African slave trade. Fact.

The coup is complete.

Harris ought to be president NOW under the 25th Amendment. She is not because the people running her campaign have not yet subjected the nation to enough propaganda to persuade them that she is and don’t want to risk her falling on her face before November.

The scary thing is, if Biden’s poll numbers had been higher he’d still be the nominee despite his visible decline and not having been “as sharp as a tack” for months if not years.

As someone who self labels themselves "Black" you seem totally unaware of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Well, to a lot of black Americans they don’t feel she’s black, has the American black experience and therefore doesn’t represent them.

Vice President Harris’s campaign is dubbing Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) a “disaster” as former President Trump’s choice of a running mate, suggesting Trump could be soon be regretting his decision.

The Hill? Seriously, the same Hill that projected that Clinton would win or that Trump was washed up and that the right rejects him??? lol, yeah, ok.

If Joe Biden had full confidence in Kamala Harris, Biden could have backed Harris unequivocally, stood down resigned the Presidency through ill health and let the US electorate view Harris assume power, a probation if you will.

I suggest the reason for this is Joe Biden political ideology is "chalk and cheese".

Biden a solid liberal moderate, Harris a dedicated progressive.

This evident when Harris is challenged, on record, to foreign policy, Hamas/Israeli Gaza conflict and ceasefire negotiations.

Harris was unable to fully grasp the implications Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu was due to meet Donald Trump.

WATCH: Trump meets with Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago | LiveNOW from FOX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JAAJjhPvE

Harris ought to be president NOW under the 25th Amendment. She is not because the people running her campaign have not yet subjected the nation to enough propaganda to persuade them that she is capable of it. They don’t want to risk her falling on her face before November.

Harris is not fit for the job of POTUS.

But why isn't Harris POTUS right now? If Biden is not fit to be POTUS another 4 years, how is he fit to be so now? Harris should 25th him and take over.

But it won't happen. They'll let him continue to fail, doing their utmost to hide Harris' absolute inability to govern in hope that people won't notice until it's too late. Once she takes office, people will see. And be disappointed.

As someone who self labels themselves "Black"

and…? Im not Black because I didn’t vote for Biden?

So yes, Kamala was (and still is) the border czar.

The enormity of misery her failed border policies has caused. Human trafficking, abuse of children, drug trafficking.

itsonlyrocknroll

If Joe Biden had full confidence in Kamala Harris, Biden could have backed Harris unequivocally,

He did.

stood down resigned the Presidency through ill health and let the US electorate view Harris assume power, a probation if you will.

Why would he do that? Best to let Harris focus on the campaign and Biden focus on running the country.

I suggest the reason for this is Joe Biden political ideology is "chalk and cheese".

Or that it just doesn't make sense.

owzer

Harris is not fit for the job of POTUS.

Of course she is fit.

But why isn't Harris POTUS right now?

Because Biden is the elected president.

If Biden is not fit to be POTUS another 4 years, how is he fit to be so now?

Who said Biden isn't fit for another 4 years?

Harris should 25th him and take over.

Why would she do that?

But it won't happen. They'll let him continue to fail,

Fail? There isn't any evidence that he is failing.

Once she takes office, people will see. And be disappointed.

So you think Harris will beat Trump in the election? Me too.

We already saw the first time around that the orange felon / child rapist / treasoner / cult leader is unfit to lead.

Almost anyone would be better than that disgusting specimen.

Harris is a supremely better alternative.

The enormity of misery her failed border policies has caused. Human trafficking, abuse of children, drug trafficking.

Let's not forget that Donald Trump was single handedly responsible for blocking a huge border bill because he wanted immigration to continue so that he could make the Democrats look bad.

Just as he was responsible for thousands of deatha in COVID, he is responsible for thousands of illegal immigrants, because he blocked the restrictions.

The prosecutor versus the felon. Who will America choose?

wallaceToday  08:27 am JST “ Harris and the Obamas knocked Trump's ear and the VP chose off the headline. “

It’s called the honeymoon phase, Wallace. (But) Obama knows that Kamala doesn’t have what it takes to be President.

Well, to a lot of black Americans they don’t feel she’s black, has the American black experience and therefore doesn’t represent them.

Most African-Americans (not Elon Musk), you might say, don't have the same obsessions with racial purity as whites.

They celebrate their indigenous, European and Asian ancestors as well as their African ones.

Though they know which is the most important in shaping their identity in the America of today dealing with MAGAism.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/23/donald-trump-n-word-book

Well, to a lot of black Americans they don’t feel she’s black, has the American black experience and therefore doesn’t represent them.

In a choice between Harris and the Obamas or 45 and Vance who do you think ‘has the American black experience?

rcch

It’s called the honeymoon phase, Wallace. (But) Obama knows that Kamala doesn’t have what it takes to be President.

Why would he endorse her then?

In a choice between Harris and the Obamas or 45 and Vance who do you think ‘has the American black experience?

Who do you think has the experience of wanting lower food and gas prices? Who do you think people trust with the economy and who do you think the police would back.

bass4funkToday  07:58 am JST

Celebrity endorsements can be very powerful, but everyone keeps forgetting about poor old Chachi. Why is that? Oh, right.

“But Clooney and Roberts are powerful? You kidding me?”

true, you’re certainly more powerful.

Your Federal Government officially designate Jamaican ancestry US citizens as African American. Fact.

False.

bass4funkToday  08:10 am JST

Trump is not scared, when you have Kamala’s record to go with, it’s more of a comforting relief actually

trump’s record is abysmal. worst president in history,

Underworld, the opinion US people, the electorate, at the ballot box November 5th, will decide.

Obama hesitance, his surreptitious political scheming could well have an unintended outcomes.

Kamala Harris is a progressive, Joe Biden is a liberal centralist.

Harris role as VP was to drag, to placate appease the broad spectrum of progressives with the party.

Well, to a lot of black Americans they don’t feel she’s black, has the American black experience and therefore doesn’t represent them.

Then:

In a choice between Harris and the Obamas or 45 and Vance who do you think ‘has the American black experience?

Who do you think has the experience of wanting lower food and gas prices? Who do you think people trust with the economy and who do you think the police would back.

Deflection of the day!

Most African-Americans (not Elon Musk), you might say, don't have the same obsessions with racial purity as whites. 

Most Whites don’t care about race, they just want to live their lives without having a heart attack every time they go to the gas pump or grocery market. They want safe cities as well, they don’t want thugs overrunning them.

They celebrate their indigenous, European and Asian ancestors as well as their African ones. 

We all do.

Though they know which is the most important in shaping their identity in the America of today dealing with MAGAism.

So why are so many black men flocking to it?

This guy deserves a 4 mic drop on this, a real American

https://x.com/robsmithonline/status/1816111365905326431?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ

Your Federal Government officially designate Jamaican ancestry US citizens as African American. Fact.

Utter nonsense. Made up rubbish.

Why would he endorse her then?

Because as revenge for being pushed out, Biden immediately endorsed Harris.

that wasn’t supposed to happen, Biden was supposed to destroy Harris as disloyal to him first.

So this ruined Obama’s plan to choose who he wanted at the convention.

Obama tried to delay to see Harris fall apart but when Trump called him out for withholding the endorsement he had no choice.

Next day he endorsed. He still wants someone else. he knows Kamala is too far left to win.

itsonlyrocknroll

Underworld, the opinion US people, the electorate, at the ballot box November 5th, will decide.

Yes.

Obama hesitance, his surreptitious political scheming could well have an unintended outcomes.

It won’t. And he wasn’t surreptitious nor hesitant.

Harris is just Obama 2.0 - a brown face on a corporate agenda of genocide, endless for-profit war, theft of natural resources from countries which refuse to kneel to the US, Neo-colonialism, sanctions and all the rest. A fraud.

This is just a stitch-up by the Obama/Clinton factions and the big donors to keep anyone like a Bernie Sanders away from power. Just like Starmer in the UK.

Kamala was such a poor candidate just 3 weeks ago that there was so much fear about what would happen if Joe couldn’t make it to the election. They were determine me to drag his still warm carcass over the line if they had to.

if she is so great and will obviously win, they could have pushed him out months ago and made the swap.

now we supposed to buy that Obama thinks she is “the one”?

Barack is many things but he isn’t stupid. She gets “full support”, she loses, and is out of the way for 2028.

Why would he endorse her then?

Because as revenge for being pushed out, Biden immediately endorsed Harris.

that wasn’t supposed to happen, Biden was supposed to destroy Harris as disloyal to him first.

So this ruined Obama’s plan to choose who he wanted at the convention. 

Obama tried to delay to see Harris fall apart but when Trump called him out for withholding the endorsement he had no choice.

Next day he endorsed. He still wants someone else. he knows Kamala is too far left to win

Kamala’s endorsement really has addled their brains.

Obama's Harris endorsement is premeditated, a calculated apathetic reluctant languid "if I have to"

To later, if Harris was to fall on stony ground, November 5th "brief" privately, "I had my doubts from the beginning, but I did offer my support"

Kamala’s endorsement really has addled their brains.

It seems to be some sort of syndrome.

Even more so considering neither Jamaica nor India are in Africa.

The great majority of Jamaican people are, by definition and ethnicity, African-American. They have African roots, and live in the Americas.

Bizarre that some cannot see this.

Lets see, Harris has been endorsed by Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.

None of Trump's former high ranking Cabinet members are endorsing him and his Trump's own VP says he won't either. Lesson here: Anyone who works closely with Trump leaves and then becomes a "Never Trumper" and says he's unfit.

I also haven’t heard any of the other former living presidents endorse him either.

Very telling.

Israeli PM meets with Trump, touts Gaza ceasefire talks | ABC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TogvFOllVY

Do the US people/electorate really buy into this fakery?

Its as hollow as Jack Sparrow cockney accent.

Jamaicans are more commonly referred to as Caribbeans than "Americans" even if they live in the "Americas". None of my Jamaican friends would talk like that.

All of the illegal immigrants into the US are from the "Americas".

If I'm an American I'll vote for KH.

That bad mouth orange man needs to go!

I am referring to the Harris spontaneous call from Barak Obama, jump to around 3.30

The great majority of Jamaican people are, by definition and ethnicity, African-American. They have African roots, and live in the Americas. 

Bizarre that some cannot see this.

This discussion is a distraction from talking about the content of the article and keeps the posts coming! Then they will all delete all these off-topic discussions once their daily quota of comments are reached.

Simply, the people focused on this do not have a logical argument to support their boy, Trump!

About 50% or about 40 of Trump's former cabinet members have said Trump is unfit to be president.

Blacklabel

Why would he endorse her then?

Because as revenge for being pushed out, Biden immediately endorsed Harris.

that wasn’t supposed to happen, Biden was supposed to destroy Harris as disloyal to him first.

So this ruined Obama’s plan to choose who he wanted at the convention.

Obama tried to delay to see Harris fall apart but when Trump called him out for withholding the endorsement he had no choice.

Next day he endorsed. He still wants someone else. he knows Kamala is too far left to win.

Some crazy conspiracy theory you got there. Q-Anon?

The great majority of Jamaican people are, by definition and ethnicity, African-American. 

Not by any definition used by the US federal government.

100,000 new voter registrations in the last few days, 80% are young voters...

Your Federal Government officially designate Jamaican ancestry US citizens as African American. Fact.

False.

The great majority of Jamaican people are, by definition and ethnicity, African-American. 

Not by any definition used by the US federal government.

Your Federal Government officially designate Jamaican ancestry US citizens as African American. Fact.

Utter nonsense. Made up rubbish.

Actually the official US government definition is, as I originally posted, that Jamaican ancestry is categorized as African American.

Read this government website if you need clarification:

https://spd15revision.gov/content/spd15revision/en/2024-spd15/categories-definitions.html

Jamaicans are more commonly referred to as Caribbeans than "Americans" even if they live in the "Americas". None of my Jamaican friends would talk like that.

If they are Americans born and raised then that is what they are. What is up with all this tribalism??

All of the illegal immigrants into the US are from the "Americas".

We know, we know....

100,000 new voter registrations in the last few days, 80% are young voters...

Good

https://www.notus.org/2024-election/voter-registration-pennsylvania

bass4funk

Jamaicans are more commonly referred to as Caribbeans than "Americans" even if they live in the "Americas". None of my Jamaican friends would talk like that.

If they are Americans born and raised then that is what they are. What is up with all this tribalism??

You missed the point.

Fighto!Today 12:19 pm JST

Even more so considering neither Jamaica nor India are in Africa.

> The great majority of Jamaican people are, by definition and ethnicity, African-American. They have African roots, and live in the Americas.

Jamaicans do not think of themselves as coming from the "Americas" which means North America, USA, Central America, and all the various islands are the Americas. In all 35 countries.