Posted on 12/19/2016 6:44:36 AM PST by COUNTrecount
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will be transitioning from being players to coaches.
The soon-to-be former president and ex-first lady plan to stay involved in the Democratic Party — and, in an interview with NPR, are now pledging to develop talent as scouts and coaches.
“I’m less likely to get involved in all the nuts and bolts of electioneering. In that realm, I’m much more likely to just give advice,” President Obama said in the radio interview.
“What I am interested in is just developing a whole new generation of talent,” he said, citing people who worked on his campaign and “issues like climate change or conservation, criminal justice reform, you know, campaigns for a livable wage, or health insurance.”
Obama said he’ll be joined in his effort by his wife.
“That’s something that I think I can do well, I think Michelle can do well. That’s part of what makes me optimistic about our future because I know those young people are out there ready to lead, and when they start moving into more and more positions of authority, then I think the issues that I care most deeply about are going to be well served,” he said.
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Considering that Obama did more to destroy the DNC during the past eight years than any republican, I hope this is true.
VANguard of the US Commid Revolution Jones for POTUS! Sure Hussein...
VANguard of the US Commie Revolution Jones for POTUS! Sure Hussein...
Ex-Presidents are supposed to stay above the fray.
I think they should both join the Peace Corpse and work in Syria.
Obama knows how to develop farm talent....
Oh wait - the Dem bench was wiped out in his 8 years in office.
The guy is no Vince Lombardi. He doesn’t know to protect a legacy.
Not that he ever had one in the first place.
Excellent
I hope the media quotes the obama’s every day on every issue and they become the faces of the democrat party
And President Trump gets to continue to run against these 2 idiots for the next 4 years
62 million of us dislike them already - good base to build on !
Somehow I don’t see the “ Miss Me Yet” meme working in obama’s favor
Ah, so that the DNC can offer even MORE bitter, overbearing racists to the American voter.
And President’s are supposed to be part of the good Ol boy club and too noble to criticize their predecessors or respond to lies and slander
Good thing Trump us gonna break the mold
Given their imagined “success” rate, I’m all for that, as long as we don’t ever have to see or hear from the POS scum again.
IOW, Barry is going to seize party control once and for all - Clintonistas will be on the ‘outs’ in the party.
Its a quiet rat civil war.
Yep. *When they go low, we go high*
That worked. Go away and take the grifter with you.
They better hurry. When all the degreed millennial baristas become gainfully employed in the DJT admin, they ain’t gonna ditch their houses and boats and vacations to run back to the RATS.
With Obama at the helm, the Democrats lost the House, lost the Senate, lost the White House, and only control a handful of the Governorships in this country. By all means, go ahead and make him your “coach.”
They will be scouting for blacks and Muslims, of course.
Everyone, including Obama, should read and ponder Washington’s Farewell Address.
Please, please!
I meant that to read gainfully employed *during* the DJT admin, not actually IN it.
Obama doesn’t care if he drives white people out of the Dem party, as long as he can rule what remains of it.
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