Posted on 08/22/2015 4:56:48 AM PDT by RightGeek
The closest I’ve ever come to glimpsing hell was on Monday, when I read an article in the New York Times headlined, “With High-Profile Help, Obama Plots Life After Presidency.”
Reporters Shear and Harris reveal the “methodical effort taking place inside and outside the White House as the president, first lady, and a cadre of top aides map out a post-presidential infrastructure and endowment they estimate could cost as much as $1 billion”
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Post-presidencies have become as competitive and grueling as presidencies themselves, requiring elaborate libraries and foundations, meaningful causes, books and speeches and appropriately timed social media indignation, all with the goal of remaining, even tangentially, in the media spotlight. Having a post-presidency that is, in the words of David Plouffe, “a blend” of the reticent George W. Bush and the money-grubbing Bill Clinton will still be expensive. But this money, unlike the big-dollar donations that fueled his two campaigns, Obama seems happy to fundraise.
He’s happy because planning for his retirement allows Obama to corral large groups of extremely rich and powerful people for the express purpose of discussing his favorite subject: himself.
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I tried to imagine the scene as President Obama sat back in his chair, sipped his first extra-dry Grey Goose martini of the night, and asked this hand-selected group of bold-faced names, seemingly plucked at random from Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential” issue, what he should do with his life. The pomposity, the self-importance, the snide remarks, the raised eyebrows, the sidelong glances, the oblique references to Taos and Nantucket and St. Tropez and Telluride, the mutual self-regard, the flattering small-talk, the knowing head-nods and chin-pulls, the pretentious lips-pursing—all of this combustible vanity squeezed into the pressure-cooker of the residential dining room. It’s a wonder the house didn’t explode.
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I’ll only believe soebarkah is actually out of office if I’m not blown to bits in a thermonuclear war by then.
Good thing you posted the barf alert. I also agree with your low cost alternative. It is where he belongs after all...
(yes I know Zemeckis was the director of FG)
A truly great President does not need to “create” a legacy, his or her legacy is their greatness. They could leave office and retire to the country, never to again utter a peep and they would still be remembered for their greatness.
Where are they getting 1 billion from????
Spielburg needs to step out of his fantasy movies and into reality
Rich liberal donors like Spielberg
Retirement was the best thing that ever happened to Jimmy Carter. Had he gone and did nothing his history in the books would be awful. At least now they can focus on Habitat for Humanity and still have some dignity. I think that is why Nixon will always be historically a disaster because he didn’t do anything post resignation.
I find this both disgusting and encouraging at the same time.
The reasons for disgust are obvious—corruption, influence peddling, disregard for the country, egomania.
The reasons for encouragement are different: If Obama really wants a nuke to go off over the country, or have the country completely overwhelmed or in utter internal chaos, what good will his post-Presidential plans do him, Mooch, and the Moochlets?
Small comfort, I know. But even though this cosmic jerk is wrecking the country, he is still planning to skim the cream from it after his term ends. Armageddon can wait, apparently.
Very true. President Reagan immediately jumps to mind.
“I find this both disgusting and encouraging at the same time.”
true, and it all reminds me of this verse:
“Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.” Daniel 5:1
I’d like to see him make an appearance on Dancing With The Stars.
Dancing the Tyburn Jig.
Next stop for Obama is the UN leadership. There he can continue his tradition of fraud & deceit while collecting a fat paycheck.
This might be what happens...UN Leadership, after he has destroyed America to make us a UN lackey.
Anal cavity???
As I understand it; Obama believes that EVERY other country has the RIGHT to nuclear bombs. So, BOOM!
I have personally met and briefly chatted with Spielberg 2 or 3 times. Very pleasant fellow,,,,,,, I guess as long as the subject was not politics.
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