Michelle Obama denounces the 'bragging about sexually assaulting women'

[Sunlei]

First lady Michelle Obama delivered Thursday an impassioned denunciation of Donald Trump, calling the recently unearthed comments by the Republican presidential nominee "shocking" and "demeaning," and below "basic standards of human decency." Speaking at a rally for Hillary Clinton in Manchester, New Hampshire, Obama lit into Trump over a video that surfaced last week in which he can be heard talking about being sexually aggressive with women.

"I can't believe I'm saying a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women," Obama said.

Her voice quivered as she recalled a meeting with young women at the White House on Tuesday.
"I told them they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect," Obama said. "I wanted them to understand that the measure of any society is how it treats women and girls."

Obama said the comments made by Trump in the video recorded in 2005, had left her "shaken." "I can't stop thinking about this," she said. "It has shaken me to my core in a way I could not have predicted."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/13/politics/michelle-obama-donald-trump-election-2016/index.html

[Iliyah]

1. Glad and it must be said. The GOP are notorious for allowing rapist to be normal

and victimizing the victims.

[Sunlei]

3. Obamas, Bidens all of our greatest Americans are out this week with inspiring speeches.

I am so proud of them all.

[Pachamama]

2. She was simply amazing....

This speech brought tears to my eyes and to my partner, who then turned to me during the speech and said that as a man he too is very hurt about the demeaning and degrading message about women that Trump and his supporters are defending and that she speaks for him.

This speech should be watched by all....

[Sunlei]

5. Here is the speech at the 10/13 Clinton campaign event. Just uploaded to youtube.

[sheshe2]

8. Thanks for the link, Sunlei.

I just got home, off to watch!

[Tanuki]

4. I was so glad to hear her emphatically name what he bragged about as sexual assault, not for one

second allowing something so serious and damaging to be smirked away as "locker room banter." We all need to keep that reality front and center in any discussion.

[Sunlei]

6. “To dismiss this as everyday locker-room talk is an insult to decent men everywhere”

[uponit7771]

7. +1

[sheshe2]

9. Good for Michelle!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

10. Even though the RWers despite Michelle with a deeeply racist passion,

she is admired and liked by most Americans. They need to hear her words on this.