Learn English Michelle Obama This is not politics as usual with BIG Subtitles

so I’m going to get a little serious

here because I think we can all agree

that this has been a rough week in an

already rough election this week has

been particularly interesting for me

personally because it has been a week of

profound contrast see on Tuesday at the

White House we celebrated the

International Day of the girl and let

girls learn and it was a wonderful

celebration it was the last event that

I’m going to be doing his first lady for

let girls learn and I had the pleasure

of spending hours talking to some of the

most amazing young women you will ever

meet young girls here in the US and all

around the world and we talked about

their hopes and their dreams we talked

about their aspirations see because many

of these girls have faced unthinkable

obstacles just to attend school

jeopardizing their personal safety their

freedom risking the rejection of their

families and communities so I thought it

would be important to remind these young

women how valuable and precious they are

I wanted them to understand that the

measure of any society is how it treats

its women and girls

and I told them I told them that they

deserve to be treated with dignity and

respect and I told them that they should

disregard anyone who’d amines or

devalues them and that they make they

should make their voices heard in the

world and and I walked away feeling so

inspired just like I’m inspired by all

the young people here

and I was so uplifted by these girls

that was Tuesday and now here I am out

on the campaign trail in an election

where we have consistently been hearing

hurtful hateful language about women

language that has been painful for so

many of us not just as women but as

parents trying to protect our children

and raise them to be caring respectful

adults and as citizens who think that

our nation’s leaders should meet basic

standards of human decency

but the fact is that in this election we

have a candidate for president of the

United States who over the course of his

lifetime in the course of this campaign

has said things about women that are so

shocking so demeaning all right I simply

will not repeat anything here today and

last week we saw this candidate actually

bragging about sexually assaulting women

and I can’t believe that I’m saying that

a candidate for president of the United

States has bragged about sexually

assaulting women and I have to tell you

that I I can’t stop thinking about this

it has shaken me to my core in a way

that I couldn’t have predicted

so while I’d love nothing more than to

pretend like this isn’t happening and to

come out here and do my normal campaign

speech it would be dishonest and

disingenuous to me to just move on to

the next thing like this was all just a

bad dream this is not something that we

can ignore it’s not something we can

just sweep under the rug as just another

disturbing footnote in a sad election

season because this was not just a lewd

conversation this wasn’t just locker

room banter this was a powerful

individual speaking freely and openly

about sexually predatory behavior and

actually bragging about kissing and

groping women using language so obscene

that many of us were worried about our

children hearing it when we turn on the

TV and it make matters worse it now

seems very clear that this isn’t an

isolated incident

it’s one of countless example of how he

has treated women his whole life and I

have to tell you that I listen to all of

this and I feel it so personally and I’m

sure that many of you do too

particularly the women the shameful

comments about our bodies the disrespect

of our ambitions

and intellect but the belief that you

can do anything you want to a woman it

is cruel it’s it’s frightening and the

truth is it hurts it hurts it’s like

that sick sinking feeling you get when

you’re walking down the street minding

your own business and some guy yells out

vulgar words about your body or when you

you see that guy at work that stands

just a little too close stares a little

too long and makes you feel

uncomfortable in your own skin it’s that

feeling of Terror and violation that too

many women have felt when someone has

grabbed them or forced himself on them

and they’ve said no but he didn’t listen

something that we know happens on

college campuses and countless other

places every single day it reminds us of

stories we’ve heard from our mothers and

grandmothers about how back in their day

the boss could say and do whatever he

pleased to the women in the office and

even though they worked so hard

jumped over every hurdle to prove

themselves it was never enough we

thought all of that was ancient history

didn’t we and so many have worked for so

many years to end this kind of violence

and abuse and disrespect but here we are

in 2016 and we’re hearing these exact

same things every day on the campaign

trail we are drowning in it and all of

us are doing what women have always done

we’re trying to keep our heads above

water just trying to get through it

trying to pretend like this doesn’t

really bother us maybe because we think

that admitting how much it hurts makes

us as women look weak maybe we’re afraid

to be that vulnerable maybe we’ve grown

accustom to swallowing these emotions

and staying quiet

because we’ve seen that people often

won’t take our word over his or maybe we

don’t want to believe that there are

still people out there who think so

little of us as women too many are

treating this as just another day’s

headline as if our outrage is overblown

or unwarranted unwarranted as if this is

normal just politics as usual but New

Hampshire yeah be clear this is not

normal this is not politics as usual

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this is disgraceful it is intolerable

and it doesn’t matter what party you

belong to Democrat Republican

independent no woman deserves to be

treated this way none of us deserves

this kind of abuse and I know it’s a

campaign but this isn’t about politics

it’s about basic human decency it’s

about right and wrong and we simply

cannot endure this or expose our

children to this any longer not for

another minute and let alone for four

years

now is the time for all of us to stand

up and say enough is enough

this has got to stop right now

because consider this if all of this is

painful to us as grown women what do you

think this is doing to our children what

messages are our little girls hearing

about who they should look like how they

should act what lessons are they

learning about their value as

professionals as human beings about

their dreams and aspirations and how is

this affecting men and boys in this

country because I can tell you that the

men in my life do not talk about women

like this and I know that my family is

not unusual

and to dismiss this as everyday locker

room talk is an insult to decent men

everywhere the men that you and I know

don’t treat women this way they are

loving fathers who are sickened by the

thought of their daughters being exposed

to this kind of vicious language about

women they are husbands and brothers and

sons who don’t tolerate women being

treated and demeaned and disrespected

and like us

these men are worried about the impact

this election is having on our boys who

are looking for role models of what it

means to be a man

in fact someone recently told me a story

about their six-year-old son who one day

was watching the news they were watching

the news together and the little boy out

of blue said I think Hillary Clinton

will be President and his mom said well

why do you say that

and this little six-year-old said

because the other guy called someone a

piggy and he said you cannot be

President if you call someone a piggy so

even a six-year-old knows better

a six-year-old knows that this is not

how adults behave this is not how decent

human beings behave and this is

certainly not how someone who wants to

be President of the United States

behaves because let’s be very clear

strong men strong men men who are truly

role models don’t need to put down women

to make themselves feel powerful people

who are truly strong lift others up

people who are truly powerful bring

others together and that is what we need

in our next president we need someone

who is a uniting force in this country

we need someone who will heal the

that divide us someone who truly cares

about us and our children someone with

strength and compassion to lead this

country forward and let me tell you I’m

here today because I believe with all of

my heart that Hillary Clinton will be

that president

see we know that Hillary is the right

person for the job because we’ve seen

her character and commitment not just in

this campaign but over the course of her

entire life the fact is that Hillary

embodies so many of the values that we

try so hard to teach our young people we

tell our young people work hard in

school get a good education we encourage

them to use that education to help

others which is exactly what Hillary did

with her college and law degrees

advocating for kids with disabilities

fighting for children’s health care as

first lady affordable child care in the

Senate we teach our kids the value of

being a team player which is what

Hillary exemplified when she lost the

2008 election and actually agreed to

work for her opponent as our secretary

of state earning sky-high approval

ratings serving her country once again

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we also teach our kids that you don’t

take shortcuts in life and you strive

for meaningful success in whatever job

you do well hillary has been a lawyer a

law professor first lady of Arkansas

first lady of the United States a u.s.

senator Secretary of State and she has

been successful in every role gaining

more experience and exposure to the

presidency than any candidate in our

lifetime more than Barack more than bill

and yes she happens to be a woman

and finally we teach our kids that when

you hit challenges in life you don’t

give up you stick with it well during

her four years as Secretary of State

alone Hillary’s faced her share of

challenges she’s traveled to 112

countries negotiated a ceasefire a peace

agreement a release of dissidents she

spent 11 hours testifying before a

congressional committee we know that

when things get tough Hillary doesn’t

complain she doesn’t blame others

she doesn’t abandon ship for something

easier no Hillary Clinton has never quit

on anything in her life so in Hillary we

have a candidate who has dedicated her

life to public service someone who has

waited her turn and helped out while

waiting she is an outstanding mother she

has raised a phenomenal young woman she

is a loving loyal wife she’s a devoted

daughter who cared for her mother until

her final days and if any of us had

raised a daughter like Hillary Clinton

we would be so proud we would be proud

and regardless of who our opponent might

be no one could be more qualified for

this job than Hillary no one and in this

election if we turn away from her if we

just stand by and allow her opponent to

be elected then what are we teaching our

children about the values they should

hold about the kind of life they should

lead what are we saying in our hearts in

our hearts we all know that if we let

Hillary’s opponent win this election

then we are sending a clear message to

our kids that everything they’re seeing

and hearing is perfectly okay we are

validating it

we are endorsing it we’re telling our

sons that it’s okay to humiliate women

we’re telling our daughters that this is

how they deserve to be treated we’re

telling all our kids that bigotry and

bullying are perfectly acceptable in the

leader of their country is that what we

want for our children and remember we

won’t just be setting a bad example for

our kids but for our entire world

because for so long America has been a

model for countries across the globe

pushing them to educate their girls

insisting that they give more rights to

their women but if we have a president

who routinely degrades women who brags

about sexually assaulting women then how

can we maintain our moral authority in

the world how can we continue to be a

beacon of freedom and justice and human

dignity

well fortunately New Hampshire here’s

the beauty we have everything we need to

stop this madness you see while our

mothers and grandmothers were often

powerless to change their circumstances

today we as women have all the power we

need to determine the outcome of this

election we have knowledge we have a

voice we have a vote and now November

the eighth we as women we as Americans

we as decent human beings can come

together and declare that enough is

enough and we do not tolerate this kind

of behavior in this country

remember this in 2012 women’s votes with

the difference between Barak winning and

losing and Keith Singh swing states

including right here in New Hampshire so

for anyone who might be thinking that

your one vote doesn’t really matter or

that one person can’t really make a

difference consider this back in 2012

Barack won New Hampshire by about forty

thousand votes which sounds like a lot

but when you break that number down the

difference between winning and losing

this state was only 66 votes per

precinct just take that in if 66 people

each precinct had gone the other way

Barack would have lost so each of you

right here today could help swing an

entire precinct and win this election

for Hillary just by getting yourselves

your families and your friends and

neighbors out to vote you can do it

right here but

you could also help swing an entire

precinct for Hillary’s opponent with a

protest vote or by staying home out of

frustration because he was the truth

either Hillary Clinton or her opponent

will be elected president this year and

if you vote for someone other than

Hillary or if you don’t vote at all then

you are helping to elect her opponent

and just think about how you will feel

if that happens

imagine waking up on November the 9th

and looking into the eyes of your

daughter or son or looking into your own

eyes as you stare into the mirror

imagine how you’ll feel if you stayed

home or if you didn’t do everything

possible to elect Hillary

we simply cannot let that happen we

cannot allow ourselves to be so

disgusted that we just shut off the TV

and walk away and we can’t just sit

around wringing our hands now we need to

recover from our shock and depression

and do what women have always done in

this country we need you to roll up your

sleeves we need to get to work because

remember this when they go low we go

and voting ourselves is a great start

but we also have to step up and start

organizing so we need you to make calls

and knock on doors and get folks to the

polls on Election Day and sign up to

volunteer with one of the Hillary

campaign folks who are here today just

waiting for you to step up and young

people and not so young people get on

social media share your own story of why

this election matters why it should

matter for all people of conscience in

this country there is so much at stake

in this election see the choice you make

November 8th could determine whether we

have a president who treats people with

respect or not a president who will

fight for our kids for good schools for

good jobs for our families or not a

president who thinks that women deserved

a right to make our own choices about

our bodies and our health or not that’s

just a little bit of what’s at stake so

we cannot afford to be tired or turned

off and we cannot afford to stay home on

Election Day because on November the 8th

we have the power to show our children

that America’s greatness comes from

recognizing the innate dignity and worth

of all our people on November the 8th we

can show our children that this country

is big enough to have a place for us all

men and women folks of every background

and walk of life and that each of us is

a precious part of this great American

story and we are always stronger

together

on November 8th we can show our children

that here in America we reject hatred

and fear and in difficult times we don’t

discard our highest ideals no we rise up

to meet them we rise up to perfect our

union we rise up to defend our blessings

of liberty we rise up to embody the

values of equality and opportunity and

sacrifice that have always made this

country the greatest nation on earth

that is who we are and don’t ever let

anyone tell you differently hope is

important hope is important for our

young people and we deserve a president

who can see those truths in us a

president who can bring us together and

bring out the very best in us

Hillary Clinton will be that president

so for the next 26 days we need to do

everything we can to help her in Tim

Kaine win this election I know I’m gonna

be doing it are you with me are you with

me be ready to roll up your sleeves get

to work knocking on doors all right

let’s get to work

thank you all god bless

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