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How Trump and Obama’s continued campaigning is changing the post-presidency
After leaving the White House, most recent ex-presidents hang up the stump speech, but Trump and Obama are staying involved
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John Raoux, Associated Press
There are few jobs that sound as appealing as former American president. You get to write a book that’s all but assured to be a bestseller, pull in big paychecks from paid speeches, and away from the White House and the day-to-day of partisan politics, people tend to like you a lot more.
“The standard operating procedure when a president leaves office is that they typically disappear from the public domain, at least for a while,” said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia Miller Center.
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airplane. you referencing rosa parks come on. let s not kid ourselves. you re right. she is a symbol. sheila jackson lee, she suffers for all of us, god bless that woman. ed: i notice him so sarcasm frameless shift gears. we talk about the tone. there is a man named robert strong, a liberal activist in california who decided to basically send a package full of horse manure out to a home of the treasury secretary owns in california. take a listen. become of the american people, are returning the gift of the christmas tax bill because it s complete and out her blank. my wife s a lawyer and i m not too worried. ed: larry, hard to argue with that. larry, it was just a couple of weeks ago that you had liberals screaming aimlessly into the sky about donald trump. now they are sending horse poop
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