Saturday, February 25, 2017

A POST-White House for Obama AFTER he leaves the White House... WTF!

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The president has entrusted the work of the Obama Foundation to his best friend, Marty Nesbitt, who is helping sketch out a post-White House mission.

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CHICAGO — President Barack Obama’s post-presidential center will return full circle to his community organizing days, making an outreach program to help the historically underprivileged South Side a focus. Obama is expected to pick a community engagement director to lead the effort before leaving the White House.
The search is already underway.
Details of the Obama Foundation’s mission and organization were shared with POLITICO in an exclusive interview with Marty Nesbitt, Obama’s best friend and the chairman of the foundation. Nesbitt said the planning includes a concerted effort to learn from the experiences of past presidents, including avoiding the financial tangles stemming from Bill Clinton’s decision to separate his presidential library in Little Rock and his family foundation in New York.
As much as the Obama team admires the work of the Clinton Foundation, Nesbitt said, “his [Clinton’s] physical presence is separate from his library. We will be all in one place. Everything that the president does will be from one central entity.”
When Obama leaves office in January 2017 at age 55, he will begin what could become the longest post-presidency in U.S. history. He is unlikely to be drawn back into politics, as Clinton was through his wife, already a senator and prospective presidential candidate by the time he left office.
Nesbitt sketched out a vision of an actively changing agenda that’ll keep Obama moving around the country and the world.
“I don’t see this being one thing forever,” Nesbitt said.

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