President Barack Obama went emotional in his farewell speech in front of the Chicago crowd
CHICAGO, United States of America – The first black American president, Barack Obama, has bidden goodbye as the Chief Executive of the dubbed as most powerful country in the world in a moving and emotional farewell message.
The emotional outgoing president sought to comfort a nation on edge over rapid changes in the economy, persistent security threats and the election of billionaire Donald Trump.
The valedictory speech of Obama in his hometown of Chicago was a public meditation on the many trials the United States faces as he takes his exit as President-elect Trump enters the White House on January 20.
For the challenges that are new to their nation, he offered his vision for how to overcome them, and for the persistent problems Obama was unable to surmount, he presented positivism that others will.
Obama told the crowd of about 18 thousand countrymen, “Yes, our progress has been uneven. The work of democracy has always been hard, contentious and sometimes bloody”.
He admitted that for every couple of steps forward, their nation seems to take a step back but Obama argued that his faith in America had only been made stronger by what he has witnessed in the past eight years in two terms as President.
He then declared that the future belong to the Americans.
President Obama, brushing away tears with a hanky, paid a tribute to the sacrifices made by his First Lady Michelle, praising her for taking on her role “with grace and grit and style and good humor”. He also thanked Michelle for making the White House a place that belongs to each and every American.
He also paid tribute to his two daughters – Maila Ann and Sasha – who also had their own share of sacrifices, when they started to live at the White House on Pennsylvania as young girls, and from where they would leave as young ladies.
The Obama family will soon make their way out the national arena to be replaced by business mogul Donald Trump, a guy that the outgoing leader extremely argued as someone who poses a dire threat to the future of the United States.
As the emotional Obama was about to end his almost one hour televised speech, he reminded the Chicago crowd that he is about to be replaced by a Republican, and the audience began to boo.
But he later pacified the nation, reminding them that one of the great strengths that the American nation has is the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next, who is going to lead the most powerful nation in the next four years.
Watch the video of the moving and emotional farewell speech of Obama below:
Awwwwwww, how touching. . . NOT!
I’m no longer gonna play golf during every taxpayer-paid holiday trips to Hawaii, boooo-hoooo…
I can no longer can (removed)(removed)inate unsuspecting goat grazing Muslims in the desert with drone-launched Hellfire missles.
I could no longer kidnap and detain suspected enemies of the US and lock them up in Guantanamo without due process guaranteed in the Constitution.
Duterte and Putin can now freely kick both cheeks of my (removed) and I cannot retaliate with SOCOM units as I am now powerless outside the President’s office.
My greatest window-dressing vanity project, the Obamacare, now being ripped to shreds by the Trump administration.
Woe unto me, ex-POTUS, leaving my country owing trillions of debt to a resurgent China and beaten to the draw by Putin who was the victor in Syria.
And my greatest modus operandi of perpetuating my legacy flushed down the drain with Hilarious Hillary’s resounding defeat at the polls .