I love you Barack Obama

[malaise]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/04/24/in-chicago-obama-tells-young-leaders-that-special-interests-dominate-the-debates-in-washington/?utm_term=.60593712aac3
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In his first public appearance since leaving the White House in January, former president Barack Obama told young leaders here Monday that “special interests dominate the debates in Washington” and that getting involved in their communities is the best antidote to the divisiveness dominating the country's politics.

Obama, who has kept a relatively low public profile since the end of his second term, did not mention President Trump once during the 90-minute event at the University of Chicago, but said he was determined to galvanize younger Americans to do more politically because they were the ones best positioned to bridge the current political divide.

“The single most important thing I can do is to help in any way prepare the next generation of leadership to take up the baton and to take their own crack at changing the world,” said Obama, who sat onstage, wearing a black suit, white button-down shirt and no tie, with a half-dozen Chicago-area activists in their teens and 20s, as dozens more student leaders watched on.

He admitted that he failed to realize his “aspirational” goal of uniting Americans in red and blue states, but said the country is not as divided as it sometimes seems.

[lpbk2713]

1. He's right, as always.

It's going to be a long four years.

[malaise]

2. I'm hoping the lock the lunatic up

sooner than that

[treestar]

3. Nice to hear some words of wisdom and hope again

rather than the usual garbage we now hear daily.

[malaise]

4. Isn't that the truth

[cornball 24]

5. The whole world needs you BAraCK.

[Quanta]

6. I miss him so much

It felt good having a smart, decisive, forward thinking individual as President, didn't it?

[malaise]

7. Yep

Rational - sane - thoughtful and might I add gorgeous looking

Welcome to DU

[Auntie Bush]

8. Not as much as I do.

[panader0]

9. The young people he had on stage with him were quite impressive too.

But I did want to hear him dish on Trump. That was not the focus of his
appearance, and he has so much class--but at some point he needs to make
a major speech about what's happening in the White House.

[malaise]

10. Obama knows that ignoring him is painful to the

Con. That day will come sooner than most of us think.

[Egnever]

11. Me too

Will remain the best president of my lifetime probably till the day I die.

[nikibatts]

12. THAT!

[alwaysinflux]

13. I love him so much!!