Michelle Obama told supporters in Philadelphia on Wednesday that candidates don’t change once they become president and that America “needs an adult in the White House.”
The first lady never mentioned Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the rally at LaSalle University. But there was no question that she was warning voters that candidate Trump would be the same as President Trump.
“The presidency doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are,” she told the cheering crowd.
She referred to several comments Trump made during and after Monday’s debate, including his apparent acknowledgment that he’s paid no taxes some years. Trump said that makes him “smart.”
“If a candidate is erratic and threatening, if a candidate traffics in prejudice, fear and lies on the campaign trail, if a candidate thinks not paying taxes makes you smart, or that it’s good business when people lose their homes; if a candidate regularly and flippantly makes cruel and insulting comments about women, about how we look, how we act — well, sadly, that’s who that candidate really is,” she said. “That is the kind of president they will be.”
She said the country needs a leader who is steady and measured because when making war-or-peace decisions, “the president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally. No, we need an adult in the White House, I guarantee you.”
Later Wednesday, she appeared at a rally for the Democratic presidential nominee at the University of Pittsburgh, where she changed the wording to “grown-up.”
She cast Clinton as a tough, compassionate fighter who doesn’t back down and who loves her country.
“Experience matters, preparation matters, temperament matters,” she said. “Hillary Clinton has it all. She’s the real deal.”
She told the crowd in Pittsburgh she understands some voters are uninspired this year, but this election is too important not to vote.
“Either Hillary Clinton or her opponent will be the next president this year. The stakes are too high to take that chance” by not voting or casting a protest vote for someone else, she said. “It isn’t about voting for the perfect candidate. There’s no such thing.”
Trump’s campaign reacted to Obama’s speech with a statement saying Clinton is in “panic mode” in Pennsylvania because polls show the Republican presidential nominee surging in the battleground state.
(AP)
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Though I agree with her that a leader should be steady and measured, her husband failed to fulfill that role himself.
His show of protest against Netanyahu by not having any direct contact or visits with him showed Obama to be less then adult like in his reactions and certainly not measured by any means.
His recent remarks that he will be personally insulted if people do not vote for Clinton was arrogant, childish, and downright manipulative. Time to look in the mirror before pointing fingers.
I guess obama’s book is full of lies. He himself wrote that he was born in Kenya. Did he lie then or is he lying now? Look it up. Google it. The left-wing media won’t tell you anything about it so as not to embarrass obama.
It’s bad enough that he is married to a really ugly machshefa.
well, supposedly we had an “adult” in the white house the last 8 years, and look where that got us!
A responsible, modest, intelligent, hard working, ethical adult in the White House. We have plenty – has she ever talked to the staff who do the real work (the cooks, guards, secretaries, etc.). Oh, she means as President. That would be something we haven’t tried for while. Perhaps she plans to endorce Gary Johnson?
Has she spoken to her loser husband lately?
Yes his Muslim upbringing and beliefs didn’t change while this man-child played being the American president for the last 8 years.
Your headline writer needs to occasionally do a reality check. After 18 months of Trump’s vulgarity, name calling, and flagrant lies, a simple comment from the First Lady that perhaps he is not acting like a “grown up” is somehow considered “mean”. Give me a break. Even the leaders of his own party are in a non-stop apologizing mode for the Donald and I suspect there isn’t a Jewish parent who would want their husbands to talk about women the way he does. And don’t say “well Hillary said this or that”. Its about Trump and our First Lady. She is well liked and considered a classy lady and great mother. Not sure we can say anything positive about the Donald in terms of his language (This is not a policy issue)
I only wish she had said that 8 years ago, and to her own golfer first.
Classy lady? Why was her license to practice law revoked? How much of our tax money has she blown on her expansive staff and world travel with her family? Classy? I think not. Her and her Kenyan born husband have used the office of the presidency as their personal playground to entertain celebrity friends. As for an adult, her man child spouse is just as petty as Trump. Remember using the IRS against political opposition. And of course everything is racial. I must be a racist since I oppose his Communist policies. I must be an Islamophobe for wanting to control immigration of Muslims from enemy countries into the USA. Of course, an adult luke Obama knows better than me.
G’hador – actually, I thought the first line of your post was rather mean. Sarcasm seems to be a liberal trait. Some of us actually like straight talk, not rhetoric. We’ll be voting for Trump; we think he’s adult enough and a better choice than Obama, Clinton and their ilk.