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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