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Obama: 'We Have A Deficit Of Leadership And We Need New Blood'
The former U.S. president launched a program in Hawaii this weekend aimed at nurturing future leaders in the Asia-Pacific region.
Barack Obama is a little older and a little grayer. But at a speech at the East-West Center’s Hawaii Imin Conference Center Sunday evening, he sounded very much like the hope-and-change leader that vaulted him to the White House in 2008.
The occasion for the speech was a private reception with Obama Foundation guests and community leaders. The nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation was established to “inspire, empower and connect people to change their world,” as a press release this week explained it.
In Obama’s view, the program is a way for he and Michelle Obama to continue caring for the issues they feel deeply about: the environment, income inequality, educational opportunities, the devastation of war, tribal and racial divisions, and the exploitation of people by leaders obsessed with power.
“People cling to power instead of seeing the power in other people,” he said.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/01/obama-we-have-a-deficit-of-leadership-and-we-need-new-blood/
Barack Obama is a little older and a little grayer. But at a speech at the East-West Center’s Hawaii Imin Conference Center Sunday evening, he sounded very much like the hope-and-change leader that vaulted him to the White House in 2008.
The occasion for the speech was a private reception with Obama Foundation guests and community leaders. The nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation was established to “inspire, empower and connect people to change their world,” as a press release this week explained it.
In Obama’s view, the program is a way for he and Michelle Obama to continue caring for the issues they feel deeply about: the environment, income inequality, educational opportunities, the devastation of war, tribal and racial divisions, and the exploitation of people by leaders obsessed with power.
“People cling to power instead of seeing the power in other people,” he said.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/01/obama-we-have-a-deficit-of-leadership-and-we-need-new-blood/
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He was speaking at the East-West Center at UH, so probably more about the interests there. 
