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Young Obama: The American Dream Is to Be Like Donald Trump
Washington Free Bacon ^ | 05/12/2017 | Madeleine Weast

Posted on 05/12/2017 1:57:06 PM PDT by ForYourChildren

An excerpt from one of former President Barack Obama's previously unpublished law school papers revealed he believed the American dream was to be like Donald Trump, although he called such a goal "unfounded optimism."

At age 29, Obama wrote a paper with friend Robert Fischer titled "Race and Rights Rhetoric" in his last year at Harvard Law School. An excerpt of the paper was published in a biography of Obama's early life, titled Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, Vice reported Friday.

Obama had written that the average American mindset can be summed up in one sentence: "I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will."

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americandream; bho44; biography; idol; obama; obamapaper; obamatrump; risingstar; trump
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To: HarleyLady27

He should be relegated to doing “Sham Wow” commercials.


21 posted on 05/12/2017 3:43:04 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: HarleyLady27
Adopts heavy Jamaican accent...

I see big things in your future, you can all me now...

22 posted on 05/12/2017 3:44:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: DoughtyOne
'Jump high Jimmy and you can have a fish'...
23 posted on 05/12/2017 3:45:09 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: DoughtyOne

ROFL...I posted that picture on the wrong thread...ROFL!!!


24 posted on 05/12/2017 3:46:27 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

“:^)


25 posted on 05/12/2017 3:47:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: HarleyLady27

I thought you were showing us what the idiot would look like after he grew up to be like Donald Trump.


26 posted on 05/12/2017 3:49:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: ForYourChildren

By selling the US to the highest bidder.


27 posted on 05/12/2017 4:35:38 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: ForYourChildren

Only this little sh## wants to take it from us and give it to them


28 posted on 05/12/2017 6:27:06 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: ForYourChildren
"Young Obama: The American Dream Is to Be Like Donald Trump"

Did he speculate on the Cuban dream?


29 posted on 05/12/2017 7:40:34 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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