What Will Obama Do Now?

Steve Byas

Times have certainly changed for former presidents. When Harry Truman left office in 1953, he drove himself and his wife home to Missouri, and existed on a meager Army pension. In stark contrast, after leaving office on January 20, now ex-President Barack Obama had only a two-mile trip to the high-dollar D.C. neighborhood of Kalorama, where he is renting an 8,200-square foot home with nine bedrooms and eight-and-a-half bathrooms.

The talk that a President Hillary Clinton might name Obama to the Supreme Court quickly vanished when she lost to Donald Trump in November. Others have mentioned that Obama, a big basketball fan, might buy into an NBA team, or become a sports league commissioner, while others note that he could go back to being a “constitutional law” professor. He certainly could use his own presidency for examples of how the Constitution was often disregarded.

“You can actually pursue an agenda,” said Mark Updegrove, who runs the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library. Obama’s presence in the nation’s capital will certainly cause the liberal national press corps to “seek out” his opinion, which he will probably be happy to provide.

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