Michelle Obama speaks to homosexual delegates at the DNC to lay out her husband’s homosexual agenda if elected President

Michelle Obama at LGBT at the DNC

Thank you

Oh I am honored and thrilled, what a welcome! I should stay here all afternoon!

Thank you, thank you for that welcome.  I wanna thank…(audience shouts in support)…I wanna thank the Chairman for that fantastic introduction, and welcome from all of you…I am pleased to be here today with …another fellow servant I admire, Tammy Baldwin.

In the…years since Tammy made history by becoming the first woman elected to Congress from Wisconsin, and the first openly gay non-incumbent elected to the House, yet she has become a strong advocate for making healthcare available for all Americans, and I wanna thank Tammy.  Now low income women can be screened for breast and cervical cancer, and more veterans with vision problems can be treated because of her work.  People suffering with paralysis have more reasons to hope for a cure all because of the work …that Tammy has done.  And I wanna thank her.

I also want to thank two people who are leading the fight for equality, whom I believe just walked in, so I’m still trying to figure out who is here.

Joel Solmonese…Thank you for your work.  Chuck Wolf--you and your thousands of supporters across the country are working to make our nation a place where everyone gets a shot, regardless of their sexual orientation.  So thank you for your vision, thank you for your leadership.  It’s setting the tone for what we are doing here this week.  It means so much to me and to Barack.  It is a pleasure to be here with all of you during this exciting week!

Celebration of this wonderful party, our country and the better future that we can build together. A future where we strengthen the middle class, and we protect our families, and we restore a sense of fairness and opportunity for every single American in this country.   And, I’m particularly glad to be here on a week that commemorates some of the great strides our nation has made towards equality and justice.  As you know, I mentioned this in my speech, 88 years ago today, the 19th amendment became law. Guaranteeing a woman’s right to vote, the smartest move we made in this country!

And Thursday will be the 45th anniversary of when Martin Luther King stood up in front of the Lincoln Memorial and told this world about his dream for America, just 45 years ago.  And, we all know in our country’s journey toward equality is not finished yet, we know it right here in this room.  It has been 5 years since Lawrence vs. Texas, and 39 years since Stonewall, but still we’ve got work to do before we achieve equality…(applause)…We have a lot of work to do this week.  This week we are going to celebrate just how far we have come and …how deep our spirits’ capacity to break through any barriers that stand in our way to the progress of this nation.  Hasn’t this just been an amazing year?  Or 18 months…..This campaign of 2008--it has just been amazing—it’s been extraordinary to see our country and this party grow.  We have seen people who have never talked about politics before---Ever…but not just knocking on doors but they are voting for the first time.  I cannot tell you how many people I have talked to that said…“This is the first time in my life, I cast a vote.” …And they’re writing checks, and they’re knocking on doors because they’re all hungry for the change that we need right now. They see it, and Hillary Clinton’s historic candidacy banished forever that notion that a woman cannot be President.

(applause)

And to think, and as you know I’ve got those two little girls—you saw them—they’re cute (laughter)…and because of the work this year that Sen. Clinton has done and millions of supporters, little girls like mine and all these little girls around the country can dream a little bigger, they can think about their sights, who they will be, and who they will become has changed forever, thanks to this year.

In just 2 days we’re gonna make history, again, by nominating this guy, that I‘m married to, Barack Obama, to be the next President.

(Applause)

In the words of my husband, “We are fired up and ready to go!”

As you can imagine, I am here today as a very proud spouse who believes that, I know, Barack is going to be an extraordinary President.  I know that in every fiber of my body.  And, I’m here as an American who loves her country …and …I know (applause) in my heart not just what I’ve seen from my own life journey, but what I’ve seen over these last 19 months, that we can overcome in this nation any challenge that we face. But, most of all I’m here as a mother.  No matter how many typos or caricatures they make--I am a mom first.

That’s who Michelle Obama really is.  And our girls, I talk about them---they’re the first thing I think about every day whenever I’m on the campaign trail, working a rope line, and I see the face of some child out there--I think about our girls.  So for me, the issues that we’re facing in this election this year… issues of education, a better economy, national security, healthcare, the environment--these aren’t political issues for me and for many of us, this is all personal, it is all very personal.

And that is why I believe Barack will be an outstanding President, because he gets it.  He understands the challenges that people across our country are facing everyday and those challenges are very real. He has been working his whole career to help take that load off the regular folks, and to help them build better lives, and to have a fair shot and to be able to offer a future to their children and to their grandchildren.

And last night, I told you the story of how Barack and I first got to know each other, when we went to his work in a community meeting.  And, Barack stood up and talked about the world as it is, and the world as it should be.  When I heard that conversation--for me--a light turned on within myself.. …and he said something very simple.  He said, “All too often we settle for the world as it is because we think it is the best we can do--even when it doesn’t reflect our values and aspirations as a nation.”  We often felt that it won’t change, we can’t do anything any differently, this is the best we can do, we’re blessed--maybe we shouldn’t ask for more, we’ve all said that at some point in time in our lives.  But, Barack reminded us on that day that we also know what the world should look like……we know in our hearts……as individuals living and breathing, we know what fairness, and opportunity, and justice looks like!  And it is up to us, to fight and work hard to close the gaps between the two ideals--to make a world as it is and the world as it should be--one in the same.

(applause)

And, I’m here because I know, I have lived with the man for 20 years and I say this…he has not let me down once.  He has spent his entire life trying to build a career based on that struggle to narrow the gaps.  And wherever he has a chance, he uses his God given talents to move that bar.  That’s what he did all those years ago working in churches…helping families build better lives, and it is what he did when he turned down a big law firm to become a civil rights attorney all those years ago.  That’s what he did as a state senator. 

Before entering the U.S Senate, he was a champion of the law that amended the Illinois human rights act in our state.  It prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

(Applause). 

It was discrimination, not just in the workplace, but in housing and every public place within that state.  And in 2004, in the middle of a very tight race for the U.S. Senate, a race that Barack Obama wasn’t suppose to win--a familiar story in Barack’s career---Barack went on record during that race, supporting a complete repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act.

(Applause)

When he got to the U.S. Senate, he voted to protect our constitution from the stain of discrimination by voting against the Federal Marriage Amendment.

(Applause)

He also supported, in his career, full funding for the Ryan White Care Act and has pledged…(Applause) a national HIV/AIDS strategy to combat this continuing epidemic right here in the United States.  (Applause) 

He has also spoken out against the stigma surrounding HIV testing, which is still plaguing so many of our communities, which you all know---a lot of that is due to homophobia.  Barack has led by example.  When we took our trip to Africa and visited his home country in Kenya, we took a public HIV test----for the very point of showing folks in Kenya that there is nothing to be embarrassed about in getting tested.   We did it….. (Applause)

Barack has also worked to expand healthcare, pass welfare reform.  He’s worked to ensure that the brave men and women who serve this country…that they don’t have to fight a new battle when they come back from service.  That battle to get healthcare, to get to the front of the line and to get the services they need to live a full and healthy life.  And, that includes mental healthcare.  Barack has been fighting for…(Applause)…

Barack is running for President because he believes that if you work together, and we come together that we can build that world as it should be---we can do it.  And he says, ‘That in the world as it should be—what does that look like?  Now, in the world as it should be, we can work together to repeal laws like DOMA and ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ and we can (applause)….we can oppose devisive constitutional amendments that would strip civil rights and benefits away from LGBT Americans because discrimination has no place in a nation founded on the promise of equality.  (Applause)