How he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book a promised land. We dropped in on the former president in chicago, in high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who have been part of my brothers keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. Are you going back to Community Organizing . Well, you know, probably im a little too grayhaired and old to be going door to door like i used to be. Plus secret Service Still follows me around, so im pretty disruptive. But i am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. One of the things that inspired former president barack obama these days are meetings like this one. Hey, people. Hey, hey. Its called a bam circle. Bam stands for becoming a man. A program that started in chicago in 2001 to mentor and support boys and young men. How is everybody doin . The idea is to create a place for them to safely and honestly share their struggles and successes, issues at home
Personal friend barack, as he has asked me not to call him, president obama. Well, it turns out the president and i had so much to talk about, we actually couldnt fit it all in one show. I mean, we could have, but that would have meant more time with an american icon, and fewer commercials for nasal decongestant and obviously no one wants that. So in the great tradition of this postthanksgiving season, tonight, im going to serve up some delicious leftovers, in what im calling a late shows chockablockabarack obamarama extravagama as you know, the former president has been making the rounds recently to promote his new book, a Promised Land. Its the story of Barack Obamas first 27 months as president , and, at almost 800 pages, it will take most people 27 months to finish. Its the first memoir meant to be read in realtime. My favorite part about a Promised Land is that, just like most books, on the dust jacket, its got a little author bio barack obama was the 44th president of the United
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He was such a positive dude before this. [ laughter ] what hes doing in the white house, nobody knows. Hes been tweeting, we do know that. Sometimes he leaves to play golf. And that seems to be it, which is weird, because it almost seems hypocritical coming from the guy who likes to say this. These people do nothing. They talk a big game and they do nothing. Theyve done nothing, they do nothing. I see these phoneys, the donothing democrats. They keep talking, they do nothing about it, they do nothing about it. I call them the donothing democrats. The donothing democrats and they are do nothing. Joe biden wouldnt have done anything. The democrats have been playing at it for years and havent done anything. Hell say, oh, yes, we did this he did nothing. He did nothing and he got nominated. 47 years he did nothing. For the most part they did lil. I did so much. I did everything and more than everything. Jimmy and more. No president has done more everything than him. [ applause ] this is hi
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