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Barack Obama Drops His Best Dance Moves During African Trip
Barack Obama wants us to know his wife isn't the only dancer in the family.
Former President Barack Obama visited his ancestral village in Kenya to open a sports and training center founded by his half-sister, Auma Obama. In a speech, he praised Kenya's president and opposition leader for working together.
After Michelle jammed out at a Beyoncé and Jay-Z concert in Paris Sunday, the former president showed off his own moves two days in a
row: first in Kenya on Mon- day and then again Tuesday in South Africa.
Sadly, we couldn’t find video of him getting jiggy in Johannesburg but there is footage of him in Kenya, where he danced at the open- ing of a youth center launched by his half-sister Auma Obama's Sauti Kuu Founda- tion. It's his first visit to his father's homeland since he left office in January 2017.
Barack Obama Just Reminded Us What We’ve Lost
Former President Barack Obama’s Tuesday speech in South Africa, his first major address since leaving office, tried to answer perhaps the biggest current question in the world: Can democracy as we know it sur- vive?
The goal of the speech was to define what Obama sees as the central dynamic in 21st-century politics. It’s a battle between a hopeful, egalitarian political vision, embodied by 20th-century figures like Nelson Man- dela (in whose honor the speech was given), and a new wave of right-wing populists and ambitious authoritari- ans.
This backlash, in Obama’s diagnosis, is wrapped up in both legiti- mate grievances (anger about the 2008 financial crisis) and less legitimate ones (white male anxiety about social change). The central chal- lenge of modern democratic politics, he argues, is defeat- ing this backlash — a fight he’s hopeful about winning.
Most of the speech is spot-on. But it suffers from a characteristic Obama flaw: over-generosity toward his political opponents. The for- mer president gives too much leeway to the legitimate grievances of right-wing pop- ulists, particularly overem- phasizing the role of
Barack Obama speaks during the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in South Africa.
economic grievances in their rise and underplaying how committed these groups’ sup- porters are to bigotry and xenophobia. The result is a speech that advocates trying to change the minds of many people whose minds are most likely unchangeable.
Obama never once ut- tered the word “Trump” in the speech, but the president looms over it like the letter- ing on one of his hotels. This is both in the content — Donald Trump is a living, breathing avatar of the poli-
tics Obama decried — and in the tone. You could never imagine Trump giving a speech so intellectually alive, one whose flaws are subtle rather than glaringly obvious.
This dynamic makes watching Obama’s speech, or even reading the text, a deeply melancholy experi- ence. You think about its ideas, appreciating what’s right and arguing with what’s wrong — and then are struck by just how far America has fallen since this man was president.
Barack Obama Says That 'Men Have Been Getting On My Nerves Lately'
Barack Obama has a confession...
Barack Obama has offi- cially joined the countless women in 2018 who are an- noyed by men.
On Wednesday, while speaking to leaders of the Obama Foundation in Johan- nesburg, South Africa, Pres- ident Obama got real about the recent behavior of power- ful men, admitting he's straight-up annoyed.
"Women in particular, by the way, I want you to get more involved," Obama said in footage shared by CNN. "Because men have been get- ting on my nerves lately. Every day I read the newspa- per, and I just think — broth- ers, what’s wrong with you guys? What's wrong with us? I mean we're violent; we're bullying — you know, just not handling our business."
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"I think empowering more women on the conti- nent — that right away is going to lead to some better policies," he continued.
Obama voicing his disap- pointment in men, especially those making front-page headlines, comes after a par- ticularly mortifying week for President Donald Trump.
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