President Obama spoke during his final news conference in the White House briefing room on Wednesday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
New York Times: Obama Vows to Speak Out on ‘Core Values’ After Office
WASHINGTON — President Obama made clear on Wednesday that he would not go silent after leaving office this week, promising to speak out whenever he feels America’s “core values” are threatened.
While he said he was looking forward to taking a break from politics, Mr. Obama said at the final news conference of his presidency that certain major issues would be important enough to draw him out of retirement and back into the national conversation after President-elect Donald J. Trump takes over on Friday.
“There’s a difference between that normal functioning of politics and certain issues or certain moments where I think our core values may be at stake,” he said. “I put in that category if I saw systematic discrimination being ratified in some fashion. I put in that category explicit or functional obstacles to people being able to vote, to exercise their franchise. I put in that category institutional efforts to silence dissent or the press. And for me at least, I would put in that category efforts to round up kids who have grown up here and for all practical purposes are American kids and send them somewhere else, when they love this country.”
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WNU Editor: He will have his friends and allies in the media giving him a voice .... but it is not the same if you are President .... a fact that I suspect is going to hit him hard a few months from now.
