{"id":18065,"date":"2016-11-20T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18065"},"modified":"2016-11-20T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:49:36","slug":"obama-might-speak-out-as-a-former-potus-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18065","title":{"rendered":"Obama might speak out as a former POTUS? Bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Barack Obama is sending some signals that he might not leave the public arena once his successor takes office.<\/p>\n

The 44th president of the United States might keep speaking out even as the 45th president, Donald J. Trump, begins his term.<\/p>\n

Let’s think for a moment about that.<\/p>\n

OK. I’ve thought about it. It’s a bad notion. I hope the president rethinks his temptation to keep speaking out.<\/p>\n

I have applauded two former presidents — George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush — for their decisions to stay away from the rough-and-tumble. Both men have declared their intention to stay out of the limelight. They both have said essentially the same thing: They had their time in the arena; it’s time to cede the spotlight to someone else.<\/p>\n

I was particularly pleased that George W. Bush remained faithful to that pledge, particularly while former Vice President Dick Cheney kept popping off about President Obama’s foreign policy decisions. I urged Cheney to follow his former boss’s lead: Keep your trap shut, Mr. Vice President.<\/p>\n

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Barack Obama’s time is coming to an end. He will have plenty of work to occupy his time while he returns to some semblance of a private life. He’s got a presidential library to plan and develop. He can set up a foundation that continues to speak to the issues near to his heart; the state of race relations comes to mind.<\/p>\n

Should he provide post-presidential critiques of decisions that come from the man who’ll succeed him? I hope he keeps his thoughts to himself.<\/p>\n

As many of his predecessors have noted, we have only one president at a time. The guy who’ll sit in the Oval Office will get plenty of hits from the rest of us out here in the peanut gallery.<\/p>\n\n

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