Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Retirement blues for Barack Obama


US President Barack Obama is a worried man - he would be completing his second term as President of the US but since there is no scope for a third term, he would have to leave the White House and become an ordinary American. Therefore, it is a question on everyone's lips on what he will do one year hence when he will have to vacate 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 21 January 2016.
Former presidents did not remain in Washington after living and working in the US capital's oldest public building. Jimmy Carter had gone to home to Georgia, and Ronald Reagan went back to California while Bill Clinton built a new life in New York. Once there, he created his foundation. His wife Hillary, the Democratic front-runner vying to succeed Obama, launched her political career as a senator.
There is no news on where the Obama family would go to on January 20, 2017, when the next president gets sworn in on Capitol Hill.
Would it be Chicago? Barack Obama had launched his political career there as a community organizer and celebrated his landmark 2008 election win. His presidential library and foundation will also be based in the Windy City. In fact, he had said last year that that he really became a man when he moved to Chicago. That is where he met Michelle, his wife, and Chicago was where his children were born.
But - the fact remains that there is no clear sign that Chicago would be their next destination.

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