Former President Barack Obama, making his first major appearance after leaving the White House. On Monday, Obama made no mention of his successor, Donald Trump, but he urged young people to get more involved in their communities at the time of stark political divides.“What’s been going on since I’ve been gone?” joked the former Democratic president Obama as he moderated an event at the University of Chicago, the city where he began his political career and that will be the site of his presidential library.
Obama, who once taught the constitutional law at school, recalled the starting out as a young community organizer in the city and told a panel of six current and also former students that he decided to focus his post-presidency on encouraging the young people to engage with their communities.
“The single most important thing I can do is to help in any way prepare the next generation of leadership to take up the baton and to take their own crack at changing the world,” Obama told an audience of several hundred people.
Obama has largely stayed out of the public eye since leaving the office in January despite of the efforts by Trump and the Republican-led Congress to undo much of his legacy, including on the healthcare and environment.
Trump, a Republican, has said that he “inherited a mess” and also accused Obama in March, without providing any evidence, of wiretapping his 2016 presidential campaign.
Obama has denied the charge and also FBI Director James Comey told a congressional hearing that he had seen no evidence to support the allegation.
Obama was not asked about Trump by the students and also he took no questions from reporters.
Obama said it had long been his goal to bridge the country’s deep political divide, Obama also said: “It’s harder and harder to find common ground because of the money in politics.”
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“Special interests dominate the debates in Washington in ways that don’t match up with what the broad majority of Americans feel,” he said.
Obama also added that changes in the way people use media allow them to converse just with those who agree with their own point of views.
On Sunday, as a part of program to help at-risk young people, Obama met privately with the men from Chicago’s troubled South Side to discuss the solutions for violence and joblessness which have marked that neighbourhood.
The former president Obama, together with his wife, Michelle, recently struck a two-book, $65 million memoir deal, is expected to travel to the Berlin to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the next month.
Mrudula Duddempudi.
