Thank you, President Obama
For eight years of extraordinary service.
You and Joe Biden were my dream team.
The one and only time where my first and second choices became the nation's executive team.
No, you weren't perfect. No one is. You were a corporate Democrat, but you ran the country beyond labels. You were always pragmatic, and had the best interests of the whole country, even those who irrationally despised and hated you, and were determined to derail you at all costs.
I won't go through the whole litany of your achievements here. Anyone can find those who bother to look up FACTS. Anyone who can't see what America's position is compared to before you were President have blinders on that I alone am incapable of removing.
Your calm demeanor, your constant appeals to our better nature, your willingness to work and compromise with a side that would never cooperate, all of it will be sorely missed. Especially as we now descend into absolute madness.
The only hope we have is the people, not our political parties. Not our broken and fractured media. We must take up the cause. Only by our resistance and insistence on preserving what is best and right and good will we have a chance to make it through these dark years.
To me, this is the most compelling part of the speech, and speaks to the very heart of what's gone wrong with our political culture -
But we’re not where we need to be. All of us have more work to do. After all, if every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hardworking white middle class and undeserving minorities, then workers of all shades will be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves.
God bless you, President Obama and Vice-President Biden, and your families. God bless you and keep you.
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