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.
He was in Canada?
Is there a Man’s World there?
Both of em belong in GITMO...locked up.
Where’s his TV Show?
WTF?
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.
Ayers writing another book for him??
In pre-production. “Basketball Jeopardy” for the cable channel Animal Planet.
“...The comrades just won’t go away....”
And the bad part is we are PAYING (in more ways than one) for it....
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.
The Obamas couldn’t train a Kitten to use a Litter Box even though it’s built in to the Kitten ,LOL
“I love me, I really love me.”
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!
yikes!!!!!!!!!!
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!
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?
When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
the lib socialists do love to leave the U.S. and trash it don’t they?
I don’t think there’s a million she-males in America.
Well, there’s a little narcissism, eh?
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