<DEB>Dina GREBAUX a écrit le 17/11/16 13:32:27<MID>BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'll be honest, I have had to bite my tongue after a lot of the nonsense I've heard people say about Hillary in this election. I can only imagine what Bill and Chelsea been going through.

The vicious, crazy attacks, the double standards applied to her, they're nothing we've ever seen before. And what makes it worse is that most of the people saying this stuff, they don't really believe it. They know better.

Don't forget, when Hillary was a senator, when she was my secretary of state, she was really popular. People saw how effective she was. How she crossed party lines to get things done.

Before she announced her candidacy for president, Republican leaders described her, and I'm quoting now, as very impressive, someone who does a magnificent job, one of the most effective secretaries of state. Well, they were right then. I agreed with Republicans then. Hillary did a great job for America. She's a big reason why we're more respected around the world. But then, when it was politically expedient, those same Republicans began tearing her down.

And look, when you're subjected to unrelenting negative fire, it takes a toll. But here's the thing about Hillary, she doesn't complain, she doesn't buckle, she brushes it off. Like the American people, she is strong and tough. And she knows that government service is not about her, it's about you, your struggles, your dreams.

Throughout her career, Hillary has followed that Methodist creed her mom taught her. Do all the good you can for all the people you can in all the ways you can, for as long as you can. And she doesn't plan on stopping now. And that's how I know she will work her heart out for you.

For everybody who's still in need of a good job or a raise, for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty, for every student who needs relief from student debt, every immigrant who wants to contribute to this country they love, for every American who has not yet felt the progress of this past eight years, she will work and she will deliver. She won't just tweet. But she will need your help and she'll need help in Washington.

If you want Hillary to continue the progress we've made, you need to give her allies in the Senate like Katie McGinty.

You cannot -- there she is right there. You cannot just stick Hillary with Republicans in Congress who are already promising even more unprecedented dysfunction in Washington. That would be hard to do, but they're promising it. More shut downs, more obstructions, years of hearings and investigations.

You know, gridlock is not mysterious. It's not something that happens because both sides are being equally unreasonable. It has been a stated Republican strategy since I took office. And the only way to break it is to make those who engage in it pay a price by electing more Democrats tomorrow.

Look at Katie McGinty's opponent, Pat Toomey. Don't boo. Vote. I've given them credit for working with us on background checks, that 90 percent of Americans support. But you know, that position rings hollow when he supports a Republican leader, who blocked that bill. And it doesn't come close to making up for his repeated votes to give tax cuts to the wealthy, just like Donald Trump would. To block a higher minimum wage, just like Donald Trump would. To repeal the Affordable Care Act, just like Donald Trump would.

We do not need a Trump/Toomey economy. We need someone who's never forgotten her working class roots, the daughter of a restaurant hostess and a Philadelphia beat cop, somebody who went to college with the help of scholarships and student loans. Katie McGinty won't just be with you part of the way, she'll be with you all of the way and that's why you've got to vote for her.

Katie.

AUDIENCE: Katie! Katie! Katie!

[21:05:03] OBAMA: Pennsylvania, if you think endless gridlock will help your family, you should vote Republicans, but if you believe America can do better than that, if you care about creating jobs that families can live on and child care they can afford, if you care about equal pay for women and a higher minimum wage for workers, you need to vote for Democrats up and down the ticket. People like Hillary, people like Katie McGinty, people who will roll up their sleeves and move America forward.

Listen, I know we live in a cynical time and I know elections and all the negative ads tend to heighten that cynicism.

Just last week, a journalist asked me if I still believe the optimism I expressed that night back in Boston 12 years ago, that we were more than a collection of red and blue states, that there wasn't a liberal America or a conservative America, a black America or a white America, there was just the United States of America.

He asked me if I still held on to the hope of 2008, if I still believe in change. After all, he said, the country is so divided. Hillary's in such a close race with someone who stands in total opposition for all that you've ever stood for. Maybe your vision was misguided, he suggested, or at least very naive. And it was a fair question. I had to acknowledge that I hadn't fully accounted on the instruction we'd see when I first came into office and had to save the economy. I didn't anticipate the way social media would magnify our divisions and muddy up facts. Not of us knew then how deep the great recession would cut and how many people would suffer and how it would make so many people anxious about their futures and their kids' futures, even after the economy recovered.

But despite all of that, I told him, the answer is yes. I still believe in hope. I'm still as optimistic as ever about our future and that's because of you. The American people.

In my visits to schools and factories, war theaters, national parks, and the letters you've written me and the tears you've shed over a lost loved one, I have seen again and again your goodness and your strength and your heart.

In 2008, you gave me a chance, a skinny guy with a funny name. And for these past eight years, I saw how hard you worked in the face of impossible odds. I saw the values you teach your children. I saw the way you treat strangers in need. I've seen the young men and women in uniform who meet every mission, and the military families who serve and sacrifice just as well, and the wounded warriors who never, ever quit.

You bet on me all those years ago, and I will always be grateful for the privilege you gave me to serve. But I'll be honest with you. I've always had the better odds, because I've always bet on you. And America, I'm betting on you one more time. I'm betting that tomorrow, most mom and dads across America won't cast their vote for someone who denigrates their daughters from the highest office in the land. I'm betting that most Americans won't vote for someone who considers minorities and immigrants and people with disabilities as inferior. Who considers people who practice different faiths as objects of suspicion. I'm betting that tomorrow, true conservatives won't cast their vote for someone with no regard for the constitution. I'm betting that young people turn out to vote because your future is at stake. I'm betting that men across this country will have no problem voting for the more qualified candidate, who happens to be a woman. I'm betting that African-Americans will vote in big numbers, because this journey we've been on was never about the color of a president, but the content of his or her character. I'm betting that America will reject the politics of resentment and the politics of blame and choose a politics that says, we are stronger together. I am betting that tomorrow, you will reject fear, and you'll choose hope. I'm betting that the wisdom and decency and generosity of the American people will once again win the day. And that is a bet that I have never, ever lost.

[21:10:20] Philadelphia, in this place, where our founders forged the documents of freedom, in this place where they gave us the tools to perfect our union, if you share my faith, then I ask you to vote. If you want a president who shares our faith in America, who has lived that faith in America, who will finally shatter a glass ceiling and be a president for each and every one of us, then I am asking you to work as hard as you can this one last day to elect my, fellow Americans, this fighter, this stateswoman, this mother, this grandmother, this patriot, our next president of the United States of America, Hillary Clinton!

It's going to be permanently there for you.<FIN>