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.
I think they just executed him.......
One of each is one too many.
This was a call to action to all classroom teachers in the US AND Canada to ramp up the indoctrination on a daily basis in order to brainwash students.
Teachers are now referring to themselves as “Education Activists”
Delusional!
Yeah, it’s a lookalike.
” he plans to create a “university for social change” that will serve as a hub...”
So, once again leading from behind. Those already exist — its called our College and University system, otherwise knows as Democrat propaganda education.
I’ll give Barry one thing the dude could definitely give a speech
However it was all just recycled tripe
whereas if you listen to our great and wonderful president Donald J Trump speech on Saturday
that was a speech! Riveting
Boogieman wrote:
Yeah, it’s a lookalike.
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Right!! Most def a lookalike.
Am I detecting a bit of narcissism in that statement or am I reading too much into it? (/sarcasm)
Reminds me of the Tom Cruise movie of the alien Tet ship full of millions of cloned copies of only two people and they were released on earth to eradicate human survivors.
Obama: There’s hope ‘if we can ****train**** a million Baracks and Michelles.
Democrats talk a lot about free things however thinking isn’t one of them.
Hope requires freedom — for which we know he has a deep hatred.
They don’t have to be trained. They occur naturally without the slightest bit of training or learned skills.
They don’t have to be trained. They occur naturally without the slightest bit of training or learned skills. Or cultural input of any kind. Used to be called savages.
Train them to do what? Be grifters? Aren’t there enough of them already in the world?
That’s a VERY good insight.
It would cause a run on XX Lg women’s jeans for the women and ‘mom’ jeans for the ‘guys’
You left this country 20 trillion in debt, while heading back into the ice age. None of those kids have a future, thanks to you.
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