On the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama made an impassioned speech in New Hampshire about women, daughters, and sexual predators. She started off speaking of Tuesday's International Day of the Girl celebration and ended with praise for Hillary Clinton. In between was a strong indictment of the Republican candidate's behavior:
So while I'd love nothing more than to pretend like this isn't happening, and to come out here and do my normal campaign speech, it would be dishonest and disingenuous to me to just move on to the next thing like this was all just a bad dream.
This is not something that we can ignore. It's not something we can just sweep under the rug as just another disturbing footnote in a sad election season. Because this was not just a "lewd conversation." This wasn't just locker-room banter. This was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior, and actually bragging about kissing and groping women, using language so obscene that many of us were worried about our children hearing it when we turn on the TV.