Former POTUS Barry emerges from the woods but is he the help the DEM need to push forward and gain any traction – PB/TK
Obama lifts lid on post-presidency career with civic engagement forum at U. of C. -By Rick Pearson April 24 2017
President Barack Obama lifted the veil on his retirement Monday at a University of Chicago forum, engaging students with a message calling on them to use empathy and listen to those with whom they disagree.
“I have to say that there’s a reason why I’m always optimistic when things look like they’re sometimes not going the way I want. And that is because of young people like this,” Obama said in wrapping up the 80-minute forum on civic engagement, the closest he came to addressing his successor, President Donald Trump.
Indeed, there were no direct references to Trump, the Republican-controlled Congress or the continued attempts to repeal and replace his signature Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, or a host of executive orders the new president has used to overturn Obama policies.
Instead, the former president returned to the school where he was once a senior lecturer in constitutional law and opened the session by asking an audience filled with students, “What’s been going on since I’ve been gone?”
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