Obama: once out of office, I’m gonna stop being polite and start getting real (like an activist)

[womanofthehills]

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.”

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/9/23/13029670/obama-after-presidency

[msongs]

1. la di da nt

[underthematrix]

2. Oh I'm so ready