Posted on 07/16/2016 4:50:02 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
President Obama’s nostalgic speech in Springfield has local politicos wondering what he has planned after leaving the White House.
“I miss you guys,” Obama said during an address in the Illinois statehouse on the anniversary of his Presidential campaign announcement. He returned to his frequent theme of bringing civility and compromise to politics.
Next year I’ll still hold the most important title of all, and that’s the title of citizen. And as an American citizen, I understand that our progress is not inevitable — our progress has never been inevitable. It must be fought for, and won by all of us, with the kind of patriotism that our fellow Illinoisan, Adlai Stevenson, once described not as a “short, frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.” Obama will only be 55 when he leaves office next year and clearly wants to do more than paint self portraits.
His visit included a trip down memory lane to his old Senate office and a campaign-style stop to a popular lunch spot, The Feed Store. Obama has previously said Bentoh’s was his favorite during legislative sessions, but like many local businesses, they were forced to leave downtown as attacks on the state workforce damage Springfield’s economy.
Current Governor Bruce Rauner’s failure to attempt anything that remotely resembling governing has Illinois residents eagerly looking forward to replacing him in 2018. That’s just enough time for Obama to get settled in a new house and open his Presidential Library before running for Governor.
Rauner’s unpopular budget hostage taking makes him unlikely to win a second term but you can’t dismiss anyone willing to spend millions of his own dollars to fund a campaign. Perhaps only a former President can raise enough to match Rauner’s spending.
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Hopefully not. Isn’t he going to still be living in Washington D. C. so that his younger daughter can finish high school in the elitist school there?
Wouldn’t that be a demotion?
lol. poor illinois. just when you think it can’t get any worse . . .
Why in the world would he do that?
Without ValJar directing everything and Soros arranging riots his ineptitude will be very evident.
Barry plans on raking in the Clinton scale bucks and playing golf.
He returned to his frequent theme of bringing civility and compromise to politics.
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Yes, that is what I will miss most about BO -
his CIVILITY.
AND
COMPROMISE.... (MY way or the highway is compromise huh??)
Not a chance.
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but this guy does not like to work in the classic sense. He likes to have a position. There’s a difference. He won’t be U.N. Secretary, SCOTUS or anything else.
He’ll set up a foundation, talk, continue the graft of millions. And allocate some of those millions to continue to destroy traditional America.
Typical HuffPost leftist crap. The state is literally bankrupt and all the writer can think of is to gloat about how this will somehow improve the Rat's election chances.
I sure hope he does. Then the idiots there can have him back to enslave THEM!
It would be a fitting end for him and for the State of Illinois.
Gov. would be such a come down.
The ultimate horror ... His Arrogance lives to 90 years old, sucking off Sam, counting his “deferred earnings” from book advances, BLM Charity (Black Laundering Money), payments for long speeches where he says nothing (a continuance of the present but with huge payments), etc.
The real horror is that during this time he will be the Black Jimmah Cahtah on steroids who will haunt sane people with his insanity for another 40 years.
Rauner would probably beat Obama by 5-10 points in 2018.
He will have to do something to pay for his $10,000,000.00 a year vacations.
Judicial Watch: Obama Travel Cost Taxpayers over $79.5 million
When there is no news, they sit around and say, “Gee, what if....?” Then write a news story about it.
well, his bung hole buddy screwed up Chicago so the Mullah might as well finish the job in the rest of the state.
A better title would have been “does anyone want to be the Illinois Governor?”
That state is heading for a crash of epic proportions and there will be massive blood on the street when it happens. I don’t see any way the state can recover and they won’t change a thing. In the end the rest of us will likely bail them out. I will be pi$$ed off like everyone else not in Illinois, but I think it will happen. Our national leaders repeatedly reward bad behavior.
Ever try to shoot 18 holes in Illinois in January or February (pretty much November and March as well)?
If he doesn’t free-load off the UN, figure a cushy life as a Hawaiian on Penny Pritzker’s dime.
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