Barack Obama Quotes
It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.
Obama, Barack. "Remarks by the President on the Election Results." Obama White House Archives, The White House, 9 Nov. 2016.
At the time he was probably sincere as the whites—especially the farmers—had a great deal of know-how and provided a backbone for the economy. However, as he lost popularity, in order to hang on to power, he established a dictatorship and 20 years later pitted the Blacks against the whites destroying the economy and the country in the process. See related quote.
Gerald Ford, who had never run nationally for office, succeeded to the presidency upon the resignation of Richard Nixon. While generally competent and extremely gracious, in the wake of Watergate he lost his only presidential election contest to Jimmy Carter in 1976:
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.