The quest to build a million Obamas
Hunter Schwarz
By Hunter Schwarz, CNN's COVER/LINE
Updated 11:20 AM ET, Sun May 6, 2018
Obama opens up on his post-White House life
Washington (CNN)Barack Obama is done being on ballots, but there will be ample opportunities to support him in 2018.
A club of young politicians is trading on his popularity and mission to kick-start their own careers. And its all part of the master plan the former President has laid out.
At 56, Obama is more popular than he's been in nearly a decade, and as an ex-president, his favorable ratings are expected to keep rising. At a time when our politics has become increasingly ugly, divisive, and crude, a political figure like Obama is rare.
In his retirement, Obama is redefining the post-presidency. Although he's generally following the career path set by his predecessors -- there's a foundation, and the library and memoir are on their way -- he's doing it bigger. The publisher of his and Michelle's forthcoming books promised "global publishing events of unprecedented scope and significance," his presidential library is actually going to have a public library in it, and he's in talks with Netflix to produce shows. But those aren't even the biggest projects on his to-do list.
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