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.
Pothead slackers and anti-American trannies? Seems like someone is working on that...
Hope has already prevailed. We managed to survive 2008-2016 in tact.....more or less any way.
There. Fixed-a-mundo
...chicks with dix and their manservants...
ROFL
The World would be doomed with more like the Obama radical Muslims and SDS Students they inspired with Bill the Bomber Ayers.
He is still mindlessly vomiting nonsensical platitudes.
One of eAch is already more than enough thank you.
The Clone Wars is becoming a reality.
My first thought exactly. Now I'm thinking there are about 40 million of them. Lets add "godless" to their attributes.
“Obama: There’s hope ‘if we can train a million Baracks and Michelles’
That’s what all the democrat pre-K programs are for.
So, we endured 8 lonnnnnggg years of The Won and he didn’t deliver on the promised ‘hope’?
I’m beyond shocked!
“...the 44th president spoke of programs that have become a central pillar of his Obama Foundation...”
Wonder if that’s modeled after the Clinton Foundation?
Apparently, it's hard.
Amen, Amen, Amen, you certainly said a mouthful that time preacher.
“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,”
I’m actually surprised that he did not say:
If [I] train them if [I] give them skills, support, financing, media training, spotlights, then they’re the ones that are going to carry forward the solutions that [I] so desperately need,”
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