Obama 3.0?

When he left the White House, President Truman moved back to Missouri and lived with his wife in a house  which had belonged to her family – the same house they had live in after they had married.   President Eisenhower, who had spent most of his adult life in the army, retired to a farm in Gettysburg, near the nation’s most famous battlefield. Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and both Bushes returned to their home states after their presidencies.  While some of these men remained somewhat active in politics after leaving office,  none tried to continue a career as a politician.  Each seemed able to walk away and find other things to become the main interests and activities of their remaining lives.

If some  reports in the press are true, Barack Obama intends to remain in Washington after leaving office and resume a career as a political activist, perhaps functioning as a spokesman for the opposition during the next administration.  If so, besides being an undignified spectacle of an arrogant narcissist who cannot give up the spotlight and accept that his time in it has passed, it would be pathetic. For it would indicate that for this man there is nothing in life to replace politics and the desire for power and no meaningful home to go back to.  It would also be yet more evidence the nation will be well rid of him in a few weeks.