Posted on 01/15/2017 2:16:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
CHICAGO — He may be leaving the White House but he isn't totally going away.
As President Obama gave his farewell address to the nation on Tuesday night, he also began the shift to a third stage of his political career. The once young, idealistic senator-turned-two-term-president will soon become an influential strategist and ally to those worried about the future with Donald Trump at the helm of the most powerful nation on the planet.
Obama nodded to this new role in his speech Tuesday. He did not directly criticize his successor, but used lines like "I reject discrimination against Muslim-Americans" that were clearly aimed at Trump and delighted the audience of more than 20,000 Democrats who crowded into McCormick Place to hear his final address as president.
His path forward is still evolving. Prior to November's election, Obama and his aides had hinted that the outgoing president would limit his future involvement in politics and instead focus on writing a book chronicling his eight years in office, use his foundation to expand his "My Brother's Keeper" program and give speeches and join boards, as other ex-presidents have done.
But now, Obama's chief achievements, such as his climate change policies and the Affordable Care Act, are in danger of being gutted by the Republican Congress, the Democratic Party is in disarray and much of the country — and the world — is uncertain what a Trump presidency will bring.
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Either of those crimes warrants the death penalty.
But as he sucks the oxygen out of the air for the Democrat party and its future candidate, I can easily see this backfiring on the Dems.
100% correct!
He needs to leave already.
I guess the Clintons are Beta now....or maybe even OMEGA!! Trump vanquished the CRIMINALS!
This will definitely backfire. Many times. And in many ways.
Everything this fool does screams third world punk.
perfect. obama is lethal to all democrats not named barack obama. the more they get of him, the better off we are.
His “movement”? What movement? He’s had 8 year to try to be effective and failed at it.
Look what the Democrat party has become. Look at the MSM and their enabling tactics. Look at all their fellow travelers.
Trump is going to be a big success, and by the end of his first term, the Democrats and the media will be seen for who they are.
Toast!
Obama will fall off the radar soon enough.He’s going to answer the call of the wild (gay bar/bathhouse)and disappear.It’s his instinct and he’s powerless to resist.
Obama’s team lost. He just can’t accept it.
Obama’s team lost. He just can’t accept it.
Classic American marketing — create a “problem” out of nothing, and then create a “solution” for the “problem”.
...and it comes out looking like this.
He is both, foreign agent and traitor.
He is also the one responsible for the decimation of the Democrat Party. They have lost over 1000 seats at every level and have virtually no bench to recruit for higher offices for a generation.
If he stays involved he may wipe them out completely.
It’s funny, liberals like to say that we are better off now than we were 8 years ago. But when I say Democrats need to get behind Trump now and be cooperative, they immediately reply that the Republican Congress wasn’t cooperative, and in fact stopped Obama from doing practically anything. When I say, “So I guess we are better off today because the GOP didn’t let him do anything?” They get really mad.
Looks like “Zippy the Pinhead”.
LOL so true. 8 years of golfing and trashing America when he’s outside the country.
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