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Obama now on the campaign trail

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Not many former presidents decide to campaign during another presidential election. Actually, most advise against that move. Its been said that Barack Obama, specifically, enjoys governing much more than campaigning. But the former president felt the need to come forward on Oct, 21 to aid his former Vice President Joe Biden.

“The role of a president is to keep the United States people protected from all threats—foreign, domestic or microscopic,” Obama told an audience at a Philadelphia drive-in event. “Donald Trump is not going to take steps to protect all of us. He couldn’t even take basic steps to protect himself.”

In addition to calling out the current president’s “botched” pandemic response, Obama pointed out that because of it, Trump is the first president since Herbert Hoover to loose countless jobs for constituents.

“Trump wants full credit for the economy he inherited and takes zero claim for the pandemic he ignored,” Obama said, noting that more jobs were created in the last three years of the Obama-Biden administration that in the first three years of Donald Trump.

The Biden campaign has been billed as the “Battle for the soul of a nation” and during his speech, Obama stressed the differences there will be should a democrat sit in the White House again.

“You’ll be able to go about your lives without reading re-tweeted conspiracy theories,” Obama said. “That behavior matters. Character matters.”

The former president also pleaded for those who did not vote in the last election to take action on Nov. 3, stressing that a landslide democratic victory would be best and complacency by those who have lost faith in the government cannot be tolerated if citizens want a government that is more concerned and more responsive to the people.

“The government is not going to solve every problem,” Obama said. “But we can make things better. That’s what voting is about: Making things better.”

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