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Obama Urges Ohioans to Vote and Defeat Demagogues
Former
President Barack Obama warned of "demagogues" that will
exploit "America's history of division" at a campaign rally
on Thursday, September 13 in Cleveland for Ohio Democratic
nominees for governor, Richard Cordray, and lieutenant
governor, Betty Sutton. Obama said "in a healthy democracy,"
people of "good will in both parties" would "call out"
bigots and fearmongers.
"If there's a democracy where everyone is participating and
paying attention and listening and voting, people of both
parties call out the fear mongers and then they work to
compromise and to get things done," Obama said at the rally.
"But when there's a vacuum in our democracy, when we don't
vote, when we take our basic rights for granted other voices
fill the void and demagogues who promise simple fixes to
complicated problems," he said. |
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Photos by Mychal Lilly
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