Barack Obama
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I mean, what was unusual for me was, obviously...
A lot of what I represented, a lot of what Michelle and I had tried to project, the values, our thinking about America, my successor seemed to represent the opposite.
Not seemed, didn't.
And so I think there was a lot of anger, a lot of sadness.
sadness, some fear among a big chunk of the country.
And one of the problems with the American political system is, although we have political parties, we don't have a parliamentary system.
So basically, the president, in my case, Democrat, I leave office, and there's no obvious person who's now
The shadow prime minister, the leader of the party for the Democrats, right?
And so there were a lot of terrific people who were doing good work.
But we have this weird situation where you don't have a designated person who's speaking on behalf of the whole party.
So I actually found myself drawn back in.
day-to-day politics or commentary more than I had wanted to be.
After the second term.
Yeah, in 2017, 2018.
And I thought I was going to be able to remove myself more from
being out there in public and was going to be able to concentrate on what I really wanted to do, which was coach the next generation of leadership.
Yeah, move from player to coach, essentially.