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Obama: There's hope 'if we can train a million Baracks and Michelles'

[Washington Examiner] 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.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-05 00:55|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 The current inventory appears extraordinarily excessive.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-05 01:02|| 2019-03-05 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 This is so yesterday - we have Alexandria and Ilhan now.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-03-05 02:49|| 2019-03-05 02:49|| Front Page Top

#3 People who want to lead, but can't are the worst.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-05 06:23|| 2019-03-05 06:23|| Front Page Top

#4 He still hasn't figured out how making excuses for hip hop morons and lying black academics has killed the bench for that fever dream...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-05 08:31|| 2019-03-05 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 He still hasn't figured out how making excuses for hip hop morons and lying black academics has killed the bench for that fever dream...

If you're the .0000012% who succeed as moron hip hop artists or football players, you're still a segment of the sampling. We must "keep our eye on the prize".

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-05 08:37|| 2019-03-05 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps they could be trained to do something useful, like spot-welding or small appliance repair.

Posted by SteveS 2019-03-05 09:04|| 2019-03-05 09:04|| Front Page Top

#7 and put them on "Ark B" so they survive climategeddon in 12 years?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-05 09:47|| 2019-03-05 09:47|| Front Page Top

#8 I would recommend septic tank fluid removal for his trade?(via his suction yapper) Then he could stop his self-absorbed, Self-centered, ELITIST BULL&HIT dispersal

Posted by ranture 2019-03-05 09:49|| 2019-03-05 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Barack who? His only remaining legacy is the hostile race relations he ginned up for votes.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-03-05 12:02|| 2019-03-05 12:02|| Front Page Top

#10 #9, exactly right. I am genuinely surprised at the speed at which a former president has been marginalized. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing--I think his policies were bad--but we really hear very little about him these days.

Posted by Tom 2019-03-05 12:56|| 2019-03-05 12:56|| Front Page Top

#11 TDS is too widespread for BHO to keep himself in the news.

Posted by Silentbrick 2019-03-05 13:46|| 2019-03-05 13:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Just what the country needs - the next generation of arrogant, condescending, self-righteous socialist busybodies.

Posted by Raj 2019-03-05 14:05|| 2019-03-05 14:05|| Front Page Top

#13 We already have that Raj. See AOC for details.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-03-05 17:32|| 2019-03-05 17:32|| Front Page Top

#14 Barack and Michael are popular in Canada?

Posted by JohnQC 2019-03-05 17:33|| 2019-03-05 17:33|| Front Page Top

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