Sounding off overseasSomeone should tell Barack Obama he’s not the president anymoreThe Washington Times, Jul 6, 2017
Squeezing out one last burst of applause is risky for any entertainer, as any old vaudevillian could have told Barack Obama. The idea is to leave the fans in the cheap seats yelling for more. But Mr. Obama, the original snowflake — always at risk of melting and dead certain that he’s unique in history — scorns the tradition of a president expected to go home after his time is done.
He’s understandably reluctant to leave town with his party decimated, clueless and bereft of credible leadership. But by stationing himself in Washington, barricaded behind the walls surrounding his new $8.1 million house and a quarter of a mile of the street in front of the house closed to the neighborhood, he imagines himself sitting pretty. Mr. Obama has roots in several cities on three continents and in one ocean, but there’s nothing to hold him to Washington except the dream of a new career as martyr president-in-exile.
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