Make Up Your Mind Obama

Enemy?

Hillary Clinton, who was once the candidate enemy of Barack Obama, is now campaigning for president with Obama’s full support. During the time they were simultaneously running for presidency, Obama said some hateful claims about Clinton to convince voters she was unfit for office so he could win. It is interesting now to see him try to justify those claims to convince voters to think the opposite of what he once said. Obama made an ad in 2008 that was condemning, attacking, and questioning Hillary as his opponent.  His main claim from the add was, “Hillary Clinton, she’ll say anything and change nothing.” These attack ads are extremely effective especially now that they are being dug up and used against Clinton in the 2016 election, even though Obama wants her to win. Politico quoted Trump saying, “I rarely agree with President Obama- however he is 100% correct about Crooked Hillary Clinton. Great ad!” The video ad is prime bait that Trump can, and is, using against Clinton claiming even her surrogates don’t see her as a good president.

Friend?

On the other hand, the man who has spent the last eight years in the White House leading this country and learning what it takes to be the President of the United States should have a good idea of what type of person would be fit to be President next. I personally have come to value his opinions highly, but I believe most citizens are overlooking what he has to say about the candidates. We should be taking into consideration that he is whole-heartedly supporting Hillary Clinton as president and has happily accepted to be one of her surrogates. As the president, he is obligated to support certain people and do certain things, but according to Obama in regards to the candidates he said to CNN, “Can I just say, I am really into electing Hillary Clinton. This is not me going through the motions here. I really, really, really want to elect Hillary Clinton,” Obama said. “We take for granted sometimes what is steady, and what is true. Hillary Clinton is steady. And she’s true.” A voter should take both sides of the argument into consideration to decide if Obama is being genuine in his support of Hillary or not. In my opinion, putting all the time and effort into being Clinton’s surrogate, implies that Obama does actually want her to be president. The attack ad from 2008 I think was simply him trying to play the political game of doing whatever it takes to beat out the other candidates.