President Obama told Rolling Stone that he plans to be “very active” in politics once his time is up at the White House and it sounds like his progressive vision is going to get progressively worse.
This makes the tenth time Obama has graced the cover of the extremely left publication and apparently this “exit interview” was really hard on columnist Jann Wenner, whose words were practically written with his tears:
My final interview with President Obama in the White House had been scheduled for the day after the presidential election. I had hoped to look back on what he had achieved over eight years and the issues that mattered the most to him and to the readers of Rolling Stone, hear his advice for Hillary and about the road ahead.
Before flying down to Washington, D.C., on the morning after the staggering election results, I called and offered to postpone. This had to be one of the worst days of Obama's political life, and he hadn't had a moment to reflect on it, to be angry or to accept it.
But his office called back; Obama wanted to go ahead with the interview as planned. It was a dull, cloudy day, and the White House was nearly empty when I arrived. It had been a long and unhappy night, and now only a skeleton staff remained. It felt like a funeral.
Wenner recalled his last interview with Obama back in 2012 and how he ran into Sec. Hillary Clinton on his way out but added, “This time it was her ghost.” He sounds really broken up that Obama’s legacy won’t continue through a Clinton presidency, so he must have leaped with joy when the president told him about his future plans.
“I will continue to be very active, and Michelle is going to continue to be very active,” Obama said to the interviewer’s comfort. And here’s his initial plans on doing that:
“I think it is really important for us, as progressives – set aside the Democratic Party as an institution, but just anybody who wants to see a more progressive America – to think about how we are operating on the ground and showing up everywhere and fighting for the support of folks and giving them a concrete sense of what it is that we think will make their lives better, rather than depending on coming up with the right technocratic policies and sharing that with the New York Times editorial board. If we are not on the ground, and people are not hearing and seeing us face-to-face, then we'll keep on losing, even though I genuinely believe that the Republican prescriptions are not going to be as helpful to these folks.”
Obama said the entire approach by Democrats needs a complete overhaul and he has the vision:
“How do we rethink our storytelling, the messaging and the use of technology and digital media, so that we can make a persuasive case across the country? And not just in San Francisco or Manhattan but everywhere, about why climate change matters or why issues of economic inequality have to be addressed. So I will continue to be very active, and Michelle is going to continue to be very active – and [on] the very thing that brought us here, which is our belief that when you work with people on the ground at a grassroots level, change happens. When people feel disconnected from the institutions of government, they can swing back and forth in all sorts of ways.”
Other than plans for a future liberal utopia, the president has a few other “well-deserved” plans on the calendar:
“You know, I'm gonna sleep for a couple of weeks when I get out of here, take my wife on a well-deserved vacation. And I'll spend time in my first year out of office writing a book, and I'm gonna be organizing my presidential center, which is gonna be focused on precisely this issue of how do we train and empower the next generation of leadership.”
The Obamas certainly need ANOTHER vacation. But at least we know what to expect: we haven’t heard the last of Barrack Hussein Obama.



