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Obama: There's hope 'if we can train a million Baracks and Michelles'
Washington Examiner ^ | March 4, 2019 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 03/07/2019 6:50:03 AM PST by Perseverando

WINNIPEG, Canada — Former President Barack Obama said Monday these are "challenging times" but he remains hopeful because of the next generation of leaders that he aims to guide.

Touching on his "third act," the 44th president spoke of programs that have become a central pillar of his Obama Foundation and its $500 million presidential center project in Chicago.

He told a packed arena at Bell MTS Place how he plans to create a "university for social change" that will serve as a hub for young people in the U.S. and around the world who are skeptical of the "old institutions."

"If we train them — if we give them skills, support, financing, media training, spotlights, then they're the ones that are going to carry forward the solutions that we so desperately need," Obama said.

He then amplified a vision he shared in Japan last year in which the new global class of future leaders are molded in his or his wife Michelle Obama's image.

"If we could form a network of those young leaders, not just in the United States, but around the world, then we got something," he said, adding, "if we can train a million Baracks and Michelles who are running around thinking they can change the world" hope is achievable.

Loud applause ensued.

Obama also spoke about his two terms as president and his relationship with Canada and its leaders during hour-long-plus discussion with moderator Michael Burns, the former CEO of the Invictus Games.

He didn't talk directly about his successor in the White House, President Trump, or the 2020 election, but he did take a jab at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., provided a clue about how soon he might complete his first book since leaving office, and shared his admiration of Joe Biden, who was his vice president and is now looking at a bid for president.

Obama will continue his tour through Canada on Tuesday, with speaking events in Vancouver and Calgary.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hope; hopeandchange; moochelle; obama
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To: dandiegirl

I think they just executed him.......


61 posted on 03/07/2019 8:07:05 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Perseverando
if we can train a million Baracks and Michelles

One of each is one too many.

62 posted on 03/07/2019 8:07:25 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Perseverando

This was a call to action to all classroom teachers in the US AND Canada to ramp up the indoctrination on a daily basis in order to brainwash students.

Teachers are now referring to themselves as “Education Activists”


63 posted on 03/07/2019 8:16:31 AM PST by Be Careful
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To: Perseverando

Delusional!


64 posted on 03/07/2019 8:19:02 AM PST by TruthWillWin ([[[MSM]]])
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To: RevelationDavid

Yeah, it’s a lookalike.


65 posted on 03/07/2019 8:31:57 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Perseverando

” he plans to create a “university for social change” that will serve as a hub...”

So, once again leading from behind. Those already exist — its called our College and University system, otherwise knows as Democrat propaganda education.


66 posted on 03/07/2019 8:38:21 AM PST by falcon99
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To: Perseverando

I’ll give Barry one thing the dude could definitely give a speech

However it was all just recycled tripe

whereas if you listen to our great and wonderful president Donald J Trump speech on Saturday

that was a speech! Riveting


67 posted on 03/07/2019 8:39:12 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Boogieman

Boogieman wrote:

Yeah, it’s a lookalike.

..............................

Right!! Most def a lookalike.


68 posted on 03/07/2019 9:01:24 AM PST by RevelationDavid
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To: Perseverando
"If we could form a network of those young leaders, not just in the United States, but around the world, then we got something," he said, adding, "if we can train a million Baracks and Michelles who are running around thinking they can change the world" hope is achievable.

Am I detecting a bit of narcissism in that statement or am I reading too much into it? (/sarcasm)

69 posted on 03/07/2019 9:11:59 AM PST by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: Perseverando

Reminds me of the Tom Cruise movie of the alien Tet ship full of millions of cloned copies of only two people and they were released on earth to eradicate human survivors.


70 posted on 03/07/2019 9:20:59 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: Perseverando; FlingWingFlyer; RooRoobird20; butlerweave; Mr. K

71 posted on 03/07/2019 9:46:53 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Perseverando

Obama: There’s hope ‘if we can ****train**** a million Baracks and Michelles.

Democrats talk a lot about free things however thinking isn’t one of them.


72 posted on 03/07/2019 9:55:17 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Paladin2

Hope requires freedom — for which we know he has a deep hatred.


73 posted on 03/07/2019 10:09:59 AM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: Perseverando

They don’t have to be trained. They occur naturally without the slightest bit of training or learned skills.


74 posted on 03/07/2019 10:12:30 AM PST by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Perseverando

They don’t have to be trained. They occur naturally without the slightest bit of training or learned skills. Or cultural input of any kind. Used to be called savages.


75 posted on 03/07/2019 10:14:20 AM PST by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Perseverando

Train them to do what? Be grifters? Aren’t there enough of them already in the world?


76 posted on 03/07/2019 10:18:46 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Heart of Georgia

That’s a VERY good insight.


77 posted on 03/07/2019 11:01:42 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: rjsimmon

It would cause a run on XX Lg women’s jeans for the women and ‘mom’ jeans for the ‘guys’


78 posted on 03/07/2019 11:53:08 AM PST by allwrong57
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To: Perseverando

You left this country 20 trillion in debt, while heading back into the ice age. None of those kids have a future, thanks to you.


79 posted on 03/07/2019 5:11:47 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appeartertainment fie the derange that way.)
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To: Perseverando; trisham; onyx; SaveFerris; All
"Obama: There's hope 'if we can train
a million Baracks and Michelles'...."


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80 posted on 03/07/2019 5:16:09 PM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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