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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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The comrades just won't go away.
1 posted on 03/07/2019 6:50:03 AM PST by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

He was in Canada?
Is there a Man’s World there?
Both of em belong in GITMO...locked up.


2 posted on 03/07/2019 6:51:42 AM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Perseverando

Where’s his TV Show?


3 posted on 03/07/2019 6:52:11 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Perseverando
" hope is achievable"

WTF?

4 posted on 03/07/2019 6:53:11 AM PST by Paladin2
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Obama: There's hope 'if we can train a million Baracks and Michelles'

Unfortunately, you already have. There are millions of whiny, ungrateful, self-serving, narcissistic, anti-American, hateful, lazy, villainous people that continue to push this country to the brink of ruin.

5 posted on 03/07/2019 6:53:34 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Perseverando

Ayers writing another book for him??


6 posted on 03/07/2019 6:53:41 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Paladin2

In pre-production. “Basketball Jeopardy” for the cable channel Animal Planet.


8 posted on 03/07/2019 6:54:11 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: Perseverando

“...The comrades just won’t go away....”

And the bad part is we are PAYING (in more ways than one) for it....


9 posted on 03/07/2019 6:54:51 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Perseverando

What change is he talking about? Can’t he ever be specific? He talks about tearing down the old institutions but little else. I guess once everything is gone, rainbows and butterflies will appear.


10 posted on 03/07/2019 6:55:02 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Perseverando

The Obamas couldn’t train a Kitten to use a Litter Box even though it’s built in to the Kitten ,LOL


11 posted on 03/07/2019 6:56:00 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Perseverando

“I love me, I really love me.”


12 posted on 03/07/2019 6:56:09 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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Good gawd, talk about malignant narcissism!!

Hey Bath House Barry and Chewbacca, your pathetic “legacy” is one of FAILURE in every possible aspect.

MILLIONS and MILLIONS of Americans rejected your sorry skinny @ss and your policies in 2016, we don’t even want ONE Obama/Chewbacca!


13 posted on 03/07/2019 6:56:10 AM PST by RooRoobird20 (She will "Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves” a)
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To: Perseverando

yikes!!!!!!!!!!


14 posted on 03/07/2019 6:58:13 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Paladin2

How dare you question the wisDUMB he imparts. After all, doesn’t he supposedly have an iq of a buhzillion or something? Let the fawning commence. PUKEFEST 2019!


15 posted on 03/07/2019 6:58:43 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Perseverando

We already have a surplus of philosopher kings and queens unwilling to lift a finger to do any real work and BO thinks we need a million more?


16 posted on 03/07/2019 6:59:05 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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"if we can train a million Baracks and Michelles who are running around thinking they can change the world" hope is achievable.

When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

17 posted on 03/07/2019 7:00:06 AM PST by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies & other DemoKKKrats: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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the lib socialists do love to leave the U.S. and trash it don’t they?


18 posted on 03/07/2019 7:00:09 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: Perseverando

I don’t think there’s a million she-males in America.


19 posted on 03/07/2019 7:00:49 AM PST by Crucial
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To: Perseverando

Well, there’s a little narcissism, eh?


20 posted on 03/07/2019 7:01:16 AM PST by BBQToadRibs
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