With less than six months left in his presidency,President Obama is already making plans for what comes next. And through the next chapter of his life is still a blank page, Obama himself has hinted at one of the most ambitious and wide-ranging post-presidential second acts in American history.
Criminal justice reform. Immigration. Race relations. Gun control. Nuclear non-proliferation. If there's an issue Obama has been associated with as president, the odds are he's talked about continuing that work after his presidency.
In short: returning to community organizing. "I'll go back to doing the kinds of work that I was doing before, just trying to find ways to help people," he told middle schoolers last year. "Help young people get educations, and help people get jobs, and try to bring businesses into neighborhoods that don't have enough businesses. That's the kind of work that I really love to do."
Right. Or he's just waiting on the "event" that will allow him to do all those things while still in office (third term).
