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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2017
‘Yes we did’ — President Obama bids farewell
President was
forceful, tearful
and hopeful
By JOSH LEDERMAN and
DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press
CHICAGO — President
Barack Obama has bid farewell
to the nation in an emotional
speech that sought to comfort a
country on edge over rapid eco-
nomic changes, persistent secu-
rity threats and the election of
Donald Trump.
Forceful at times and tear-
ful at others, Obama’s valedic-
tory speech in his hometown of
Chicago was a public medita-
tion on the many trials the U.S.
faces as Obama takes his exit.
For the challenges that are new,
Obama offered his vision for
how to surmount them, and for
the persistent problems he was
unable to overcome, he offered
optimism that others, eventu-
ally, will.
“Yes, our progress has been
uneven,” he told a crowd of
some 18,000. “The work of
democracy has always been
hard, contentious and some-
times bloody. For every two
steps forward, it often feels we
take one step back.”
Yet Obama argued his faith
in America had only been
strengthened by what he’s wit-
nessed the past eight years, and
he declared: “The future should
be ours.”
Paying tribute
Brushing away tears with a
handkerchief, Obama paid trib-
ute to the sacrifices made by
his wife — and by his daugh-
ters, who were young girls
when they entered the big white
home on Pennsylvania Avenue
and leave as young women.
He praised first lady Michelle
Obama for taking on her role
“with grace and grit and style
and good humor” and for mak-
ing the White House “a place
that belongs to everybody.”
Soon Obama and his fam-
ily will exit the national stage,
to be replaced by Trump, a
man Obama had stridently
argued poses a dire threat to the
nation’s future. His near-apoca-
lyptic warnings throughout the
campaign have cast a continu-
AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast
President Barack Obama points as he is joined by First Lady Michelle Obama and his
daughter Malia Obama after his presidential farewell address in Chicago on Tuesday.
ing shadow over his post-elec-
tion efforts to reassure Ameri-
cans anxious about the future.
Indeed, much of what
Obama accomplished during
his two terms — from health
care overhaul and environmen-
tal regulations to his nuclear
deal with Iran — could poten-
tially be upended by Trump. So
even as Obama seeks to define
what his presidency meant for
America, his legacy remains in
question.
Anxiety about future
Even as Obama said fare-
well — in a televised speech of
just under an hour — the anx-
iety felt by many Americans
about the future was palpable,
and not only in the Chicago
convention center where he
stood in front of a giant presi-
dential seal. The political world
was reeling from new revela-
tions about an unsubstantiated
report that Russia had compro-
mising personal and financial
information about Trump.
Obama made only passing
reference to the next president.
When he noted he would soon
be replaced by the Republican,
his crowd began to boo.
“No, no, no, no, no,” Obama
said. One of the nation’s great
strengths, he said, “is the peace-
ful transfer of power from one
president to the next.”
Earlier, as the crowd of
thousands chanted, “Four more
years,” he simply smiled and
said, “I can’t do that.”
Still, Obama offered what
seemed like a point-by-point
rebuttal of Trump’s vision for
America.
He pushed back on the iso-
lationist sentiments inher-
ent in Trump’s trade policies.
He decried discrimination
against Muslim Americans and
lamented politicians who ques-
tion climate change. And he
warned about the pernicious
threat to U.S. democracy posed
by purposely deceptive fake
“news” and a growing tendency
of Americans to listen only to
information that confirms what
they already believe.
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said the politician who rose to
a prominence with a message
of unity, challenging divisions
of red states and blue states.
Obama also revived a call to
activism that marked his first
presidential campaign, telling
Americans to stay engaged in
politics.
“If you’re tired of arguing
with strangers on the internet,”
Obama said pointedly, “try to
talk with one in real life. “
hands,” he said.
Steeped
in
nostalgia,
Obama’s return to Chicago was
less a triumphant homecom-
ing than a bittersweet reunion
bringing together loyalists and
staffers, many of whom have
long since left Obama’s ser-
vice, moved on to new careers
and started families. They came
from across the country —
some on Air Force One, oth-
ers on their own — to be pres-
ent for the last major moment
of Obama’s presidency.
Unexpectedly absent was
Obama’s younger daughter,
Sasha, who had been expected
to join sister Malia at the
speech. The White House said
Sasha stayed in Washington
due to a school exam Wednes-
day morning.
After returning to Washing-
ton, Obama will have less than
two weeks before he accompa-
nies Trump in the presidential
limousine to the Capitol for the
new president’s swearing-in.
After nearly a decade in the
spotlight, Obama will become
a private citizen, an elder states-
man at 55. He plans to take
some time off, write a book —
and immerse himself in a Dem-
ocratic redistricting campaign.
struggles of all Americans —
from minorities, refugees and
transgender people to mid-
dle-aged white men whose
sense of economic security has
been upended in recent years.
Paying tribute to his place as
America’s first black president,
Obama acknowledged there
were hopes after his 2008 elec-
tion for a post-racial America.
“Such a vision, however
well-intended, was never real-
istic,” Obama said, though he
insisted race relations are bet-
ter now than a few decades ago.
The former community
organizer closed out his speech
by reviving his campaign chant,
“Yes we can.” To that, he added
for the first time, “Yes we did.”
He staunchly defended the
power of activists to make a
difference — the driving fac-
tor behind Obama’s optimism
in the face of so much anxiety,
he said. Though the coalition of
young Americans and minori-
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elected wasn’t enough to elect
Democrat Hillary Clinton to
replace him, Obama suggested
their day was still ahead.
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