by nolan d. mccaskill 11/01/16 10:41 am edt president barack obama predicted monday that hillary clinton will face conspiracies about her stamina and moods if she's elected america<u+2019>s first female president next week. in an interview on <u+201c>full frontal with samantha bee,<u+201d> obama likened clinton<u+2019>s potential experience in the oval office to what he faced as the nation<u+2019>s first black president, including the conspiracy propagated by now-republican presidential nominee donald trump that obama was born in kenya. story continued below <u+201c>i think the equivalent will be: she<u+2019>s tired, she<u+2019>s moody, she<u+2019>s being emotional, there<u+2019>s something about her,<u+201d> obama said. <u+201c>when men are ambitious, it<u+2019>s just taken for granted. <u+2018>well, of course they should be ambitious.<u+2019> when women are ambitious, <u+2018>why?<u+2019> that theme, i think, will continue throughout her presidency, and it<u+2019>s contributed to this notion that somehow she is hiding something.<u+201d> in the spirit of a halloween interview, the 44th president joked that he was <u+201c>dressed up as what happens when young people vote.<u+201d> and he limited his <u+201c>spooky<u+201d> halloween story to five words to describe what could happen if not enough voters turn out: <u+201c>donald trump could be president.<u+201d> <u+201c>ok, that was very scary,<u+201d> bee said. <u+201c>we<u+2019>ll make it even scarier for you: supreme court justice corey lewandowski; speaker of the house louis gohmert.<u+201d> <u+201c>that was pretty scary,<u+201d> obama chuckled. <u+201c>i<u+2019>m not sure i<u+2019>m gonna sleep well tonight.<u+201d> obama appeared on bee<u+2019>s late-night program hoping to reach millennials to encourage them to vote. <u+201c>it turns out that young people actually are more interested and engaged than i think we give them credit for. sometimes they get cynical <u+2014> hard to understand why after watching this campaign,<u+201d> he quipped. <u+201c>but malia, my oldest, she actually voted for the first time. the pride that she took, i think, in casting her ballot is a pride that i think a lot of young people feel, but you gotta talk to them about the things that they care about.<u+201d> clinton, he said, has a <u+201c>very specific plan<u+201d> about college affordability, for example, and her opponent doesn<u+2019>t. <u+201c>young people have a bigger stake in this election than anybody. i would hope that you<u+2019>d be willing to take about the same amount of time that you spend just looking through cat videos on your phone to make sure that democracy<u+2019>s working,<u+201d> he said as bee joked she was <u+201c>snapchatting myself as a bottlenose dolphin.<u+201d> for his part, obama also tried to reach young voters via snapchat on tuesday. the president was featured on <u+201c>good luck america<u+201d> with peter hamby on the app<u+2019>s discover stories. <u+201c>hold down the circle, like a video. sasha gave me a tutorial, by the way,<u+201d> obama noted as hamby and another man helped him record a snapchat video. <u+201c>all right, we good? people, this is barack obama. if i can figure out how to snapchat, you can figure out how to go vote.<u+201d> by michael grunwald by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz
obama predicts clinton will face criticism for being ambitious if elected - politico
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