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Jolene Jackinsky was at Anchorage International Airport when she ended up in a waiting area for private flights, and she noticed a man she thought looked like Pres. Obama.
“As I got closer, I thought: Oh my God, it is [Pres.] Obama,” she recounted.
The former president then walked up to her and asked, “Who is this pretty girl?” and they group chatted for about 5 minutes, while Pres. Obama made jokes and posed for pictures with the child. http://nbcnews.to/2u7v5ct
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has a great new interview with President Obama in Vanity Fair. In the wide-ranging interview, they discuss Abraham Lincoln, Obama’s biggest regrets from his time in office, and how a visit to the pyramids reminded Obama that cable news doesn’t really matter.
But perhaps the most intriguing bit was when, in a brief discussion of Obama’s plans for his post-presidency, Obama hinted that he planned to start speaking out more like an activist than a president.
There are “things,” he told Goodwin, “that in some ways I suspect I’m able to do better out of this office.” He elaborated that because of the “institutional constraints” of the presidency, “there are things I cannot say.”
He went on to essentially say he wanted to use his post-presidential bully pulpit more like an activist than a venerable elder statesman. “There are institutional obligations I have to carry out that are important for a president of the United States to carry out, but may not always align with what I think would move the ball down the field on the issues that I care most deeply about,” he said.
And while vague, this is an intriguing hint that Obama is thinking about being a very different ex-president than we’ve been used to.
yeah, but what exactly did we witness?
i don’t know whether to be happy that a black man could be president or sad cause it didn’t change shit.
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proves that the system ain’t shit and never will be shit. still pretty happy though, if only to have seen the world fall in love with michelle.
You must’ve been sleep the whole time of his presidency because President Obama changed this country for the better and I shudder to think what my life would be like had he not have two terms.
Just a few things I’ve personally gained from his presidency:
*staying on my parents insurance till I was 26
*the federal government paying half my premium when I turned 27
*My IUD being completely free so I don’t have to worry about getting pregnant for the next 3 years.
*Being able to attend my gay best friend’s wedding and it actually being legal.
He may not have achieved everything he wanted too but I will forever be grateful for the change my Black President brought to this country.
really sick of children who are obviously too fucking young to have clear memories of the Bush Administration acting like Democrats and Republicans are no different
I get it, you’ve spent 8 years of your very young life with a Democratic president. You’re probably not old enough to have vivid memories of Katrina, the beginning of the Iraq War, and 9/11 (all things that would have been a lot less likely to happen under a Dem president – yes, even 9/11. Bush Administration ignored intelligence warnings and also immediately dismantled the Clinton Anti-Terror apparatus – 9/11 was completely preventable), but please stop saying that stupid shit if you don’t have a life memory.
oh btw Obama also SIGNIFICANTLY expanded Pell Grants and introduced really nice education tax credits that made it possible for me to get an education.
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