Posted on 06/18/2019 9:50:41 AM PDT by jazusamo
Life outside the White House has been sweet for former President Barack Obama, with perhaps the most difficult thing being the one he does best: politics.
Mr. Obama is navigating a landscape in which he must fit his obvious relish for the celebrity lifestyle with an unwritten code of conduct for past chief executives, a world that is his for the taking yet tradition dictates he do so incrementally. It’s a political scene where players may covet his endorsement or desire his invisibility.
Mr. Obama enjoys tremendous post-presidential popularity within the Democratic Party’s rank and file, but he has not always followed the unwritten rules of the Presidents Club.
Rather than ride into the sunset, he still lives Washington, residing in the multimillion-dollar Kalorama neighborhood about 2 miles from the White House. He also has stayed in the limelight by taking expensive vacations with celebrities, attending major sports events, visiting charities and, most important, campaigning for fellow Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections.
While there is no Emily Post for onetime leaders of the free world, former presidents typically do not thrust themselves so publicly into elections just two years after leaving office, historians say.
They also avoid criticism of their successors. President George W. Bush never voiced his opinions on the policies of the Obama administration that followed his.
Mr. Obama, on the other hand, has frequently criticized President Trump. But given the vitriol that Mr. Trump has generated from the left, Mr. Obama’s relative reticence has been noted.
“I’d say especially when you put him in comparison with the other invective that gets thrown around, some from his own people, he’s been surprisingly restrained,” said Allen C. Guelzo, an American history professor at Gettysburg College. “Tactful, even.”
The Obama endorsement
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He can shun it as he never was a part of the American culture.
He is a marxist muslim collaborator and the work of islam (the devil) is never done
bttt
He spent last week in a $70,000 A WEEK French estate. Not exactly “walking the walk”.
What a fraud he was. I mean, isn’t this the same guy who said that at some point, you’ve made enough money and you don’t need that much? Now look at him. Raking it in and no indication he wants to give it away. Low-class shysters, that whole family.
Raking in money, but not at the frantic pace of the Clintons.
Zero never was one of us, still a usurper in chief.
Buck Ofama!
-PJ
The Greatest Fraud Ever (and self-described “mongrel”) should experience Justice for his criminal acts (which are many). Justice demands he be held to account. It would be good for Free America if this loser were made accountable.
Never happens. I wonder why.
Yep “fraud” is a good way to describe him, like so many in his party.
“He also has stayed in the limelight by taking expensive vacations with celebrities, attending major sports events, visiting charities and, most important, campaigning for fellow Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections.”
Gotta say, I read a lot of news, and I’m seeing almost nothing about Obama. Being in “the limelight” perhaps is not what I thought it was.
Nice work if you can get it.
Just think, peons like us are required to pay millions a year, for the next 30-40 years , on secret service details, full salary pension for life, medical, dental. ...you name it.
I feel so honored. How about you?
Obama is in hiding. He is NEVER in a place where he is engaging others in conversation and it is recorded, since it would reveal him to be the idiot he is.
Exactly my thoughts on post 16. Obama is in hiding and basically on the run.
It should be no surprise to anyone that he is shunning the unwritten rules for ex-presidents, as he shunned the written rules for presidents when he occupied the office. He should be in prison.
So true.
The guy always thought he was above the rules anyhow.
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