Washington – President Barack Obama has made no final decisions about what he will do after leaving office, the White House said on Monday, following comments by Columbia University’s president that he looked forward to welcoming Obama back to campus in 2017.
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“The President has long talked about his respect for Columbia University and his desire to continue working with them,” the White House statement said in response to a Reuters query. “However, at this point no decisions have been finalized about his post-Presidency plans.”
Obama graduated from the New York school in 1983. Columbia was also among the contenders for Obama’s presidential library, which will be built in his hometown of Chicago.
The Columbia Daily Spectator student newspaper quoted Columbia President Lee Bollinger as telling a school convocation: “We look forward to welcoming back our most famous alumnus, Barack Obama, in 2017.”
The comments stirred speculation on social media about Obama’s career plans after he leaves the White House in January 2017.
But the university, in a statement issued later on Monday, said Bollinger’s comment “only reiterated the May 12 statement by the Barack Obama Foundation that it ‘intends to maintain a presence at Columbia University for the purpose of exploring and developing opportunities for a long term association’ and reflected no further developments concerning President Obama’s plans.”
Will likely be community organizer for BDS-type groups and events.
He should go back to what he can do best; i.e. golf. The American public will thank him if he would go back immediately.
Obama is a perfect example of the motto: One who doesn’t have it in his head has it in his feet.
Hope he plays lots of golf. Keep him too busy to become another Carter (may he live to be 90)
He belongs in New York after all it’s always been a reliable Democrat strong hold!
That’s why taxes are through the roof and also why grounded hardworking taxpayers are leaving in droves for republican run low tax states!
Why does anyone think he will stay in this country, since he has made friends with countries that think like him and he will leave as a multi millionaire and be treated like a king any where else, why would he stay in a 3rd world country that he is going to leave behind.
dying would help the world be a better place
That’s cuz he’s too arrogant to believe he’s ever going to leave,