{"id":3031,"date":"2026-06-18T09:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:04:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:04:50","slug":"barack-obama-confronts-the-work-that-remains-for-democrats-and-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3031","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama confronts the work that remains for Democrats \u2014 and for him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>As Barack Obama opens his $850 million presidential center in Chicago, he remains a primary unifying figure in the Democratic Party even as some criticize his time in office.<\/li>\n<li>Obama continues advising candidates and shaping strategy ahead of November&#8217;s midterm elections.<\/li>\n<li>His legacy faces debate from critics who see his presidency as insufficiently bold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<cite>\n<span>Chicago<\/span><span>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/cite><\/div>\n<p>\n            Former President Barack Obama on Thursday is getting what he wanted for so long: his words carved into stone, a monument to his presidency entering the Chicago skyline.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3019\">Exclusive: Trump administration ramps up effort to revoke citizenship from naturalized Americans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Walking through his $850 million, multiuse presidential center the past few months, Obama went down the slide in the playground and tried out the chairs, noting which ones needed stoppers to keep from scuffing the floors. He asked for the whole text of an exhibit on sports to be redone, frustrated that the original text didn\u2019t seem written by a true fan.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But he also told a gathering of his campaign and administration alumni, the night before the center\u2019s opening, that he didn\u2019t believe in nostalgia and didn\u2019t intend to wallow in it.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI think nostalgia implies this sentiment that there\u2019s this thing in the past that was somehow golden and better, but is unattainable now,\u201d he said Wednesday. \u201cAnd it lets us off the hook, because it makes us feel like, \u2018Well, you know, that was wonderful, but now, this is the reality, and there\u2019s not much we can do about it.\u2019\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The 44th president isn\u2019t ready to fade into history. And many top Democrats don\u2019t want him to.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cHope and change still remain incredibly powerful as a counter-narrative to what the Republican Party at this moment stands for in America,\u201d House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A decade after he walked out of the Oval Office, Obama is still the most popular living president and the primary unifying figure in a party racked by leadership disputes and fights over its direction on key issues. But his legacy beyond those elbowing for their spots in the VIP section of Thursday\u2019s opening is more complicated.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crowds gather on January 20, 2009, at the National Mall in Washington, DC,  for the swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Barack Obama.\" class=\"wp-image-3026\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/87787a2e4c26d8d41242a0721b6bb287-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/87787a2e4c26d8d41242a0721b6bb287-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/87787a2e4c26d8d41242a0721b6bb287-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/87787a2e4c26d8d41242a0721b6bb287.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Crowds gather on January 20, 2009, at the National Mall in Washington, DC,  for the swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Barack Obama.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Bill O&#8217;Leary\/The Washington Post\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            To some, talk of hope and change can come off as na\u00efve or a disconnected relic after President Donald Trump\u2019s two successful campaigns. Particularly to his critics on the rising left, Obama\u2019s perceived lack of boldness while president, particularly on foreign policy and economic issues, is exactly what led their party and the country overall to now.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, an old Obama friend, described the presidential center as an \u201cactive, engaged endeavor to lift up and train leaders for the future.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI really reject the notion that somehow Barack Obama is responsible for what came after,\u201d he added. \u201cI guess we\u2019re all responsible in many ways for where we are. I mean, I didn\u2019t vote for it, but we all have a share of responsibility for where the country is today.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Throughout the presidential center, there are signs Obama asked to be added throughout, all on the same theme: \u201cThe Work That Remained,\u201d a phrase that popped up in  and throughout his post-presidency.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Voices are featured in several spots through the museum arguing that Obama went too far or didn\u2019t go far enough, including on topics such as immigration, climate change, healthcare and gun violence \u2014 the last of which he has often cited as a great failure of his presidency.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Hagiography comes with every presidential library. The \u201cEconomic Crisis and Recovery\u201d exhibit, for example, notes the banking collapse Obama inherited and explains how he \u201cresponded boldly to rescue and rebuild it on a new foundation for growth and prosperity.\u201d The \u201cWork That Remained\u201d plaque blames Congress for not addressing what Obama believed were the underlying problems of the economy, including \u201cto make it easier for employees to form unions, for guaranteed paid sick and family leave, and for a higher minimum wage,\u201d according to a preview photograph shared with CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago, IL, on Thursday, May 14, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-3027\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dacb5eb2e134409dfa19a752e1374ff1.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dacb5eb2e134409dfa19a752e1374ff1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dacb5eb2e134409dfa19a752e1374ff1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>The Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago, IL, on Thursday, May 14, 2026.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>The Obama Foundation<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            \u201cHe took the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and traded it to Wall Street,\u201d said Matt Stoller, a writer on economics who leads the liberal American Economic Liberties Project. Added Stoller: \u201cHe lit the fuse for authoritarianism under Donald Trump. He created the world for Donald Trump to come into.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But top Democrats are eager to stand with Obama whenever they can.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cIt\u2019s very hard to sit 10, 20 years later and cast judgment. I was a beast of an athlete back in my day, but there\u2019s not a game that I played that I can\u2019t think of things I could have done better if I could go back and relive them,\u201d said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who played football at Stanford. \u201cBut in the time, Barack Obama was a hero and saved our economy and advanced our nation along really specific indices that are lasting and still are making a difference.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Jeffries is frequently on the phone or in rooms with Obama. Their conversations range from the personal to gut checks on strategy to political advice like supporting what became last year\u2019s government shutdown.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Jeffries, who is on track to be House speaker if Democrats take the majority in November, offered a Chicago sports reference to describe how central he sees Obama\u2019s ongoing role for the party.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cPresident Obama was Michael Jordan while he was in office,\u201d Jeffries said, \u201cand he\u2019s Phil Jackson out of it.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        A retirement that was never very retired\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            Obama, 64, has bristled publicly and privately about how involved he\u2019s been in politics, in part due to Trump\u2019s enduring influence and the way that former President Joe Biden\u2019s time in office turned out.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But despite his annual reluctance to campaign more than a few days in each election cycle, Obama still loves the dominance he has in Democratic politics \u2013 even as his closest advisers, several of whom spoke to CNN for this story, argue his engagement is about more than ego.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3015\">Trump\u2019s Iran agreement may be a dud, but he\u2019s getting what he wants<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cIt\u2019s certainly flattering, but points to something more important: the country is still largely aligned with his vision and his story,\u201d said Eric Schultz, an adviser who\u2019s been helping Obama craft his post-presidency since working for him in the White House. \u201cIt\u2019s a dark time, but if elected officials from across the country are seeking his voice, that\u2019s a pretty good sign that his theory of the case still very much resonates.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former U.S. President Barack Obama, Texas Democratic Senate candidate Rep. James Talarico, and Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa visit the Taco Joint on Tuesday, in Austin, Texas, U.S., May 12, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-3028\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67aba48533aecc4f0f0f99f2540f5755.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67aba48533aecc4f0f0f99f2540f5755.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67aba48533aecc4f0f0f99f2540f5755-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Former U.S. President Barack Obama, Texas Democratic Senate candidate Rep. James Talarico, and Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa visit the Taco Joint on Tuesday, in Austin, Texas, U.S., May 12, 2026.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Joel Angel Juarez\/Pool\/Reuters<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            An easy measure of how Democratic candidates feel about Obama is the rate of endorsement requests coming into his office that, according to people familiar with the matter, has remained as high as ever. Another is the focus groups in California last year that showed him the best messenger for Democrats\u2019 ballot proposition to newly gerrymander the state. Or all the ways he\u2019s invoked, from Republican Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt arguing, \u201cI feel like him and I have the same experience,\u201d to Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz announcing she would run in a majority-Black district in a video with a vintage \u201cHOPE\u201d poster displayed over her shoulder.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            When Obama got involved with the spring campaign for Virginia Democrats\u2019 successful but since-overturned gerrymandering referendum, Jeffries noted that ads on both sides of the issue featured comments from the former president.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Not long after Zohran Mamdani won his primary for New York City mayor in June 2025, Obama was on the phone, giving advice on getting governing right, offering to be a sounding board. Both got a credibility bump: Mamdani with skeptics of a then-33-year-old democratic socialist, Obama with the young change-makers he always wants to be counted with.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            According to people familiar with the matter, toward the end of a meeting earlier in the year, Obama made his standard offer to let him know if there was more he could do to help. Mamdani pitched one idea that didn\u2019t gel, then came back asking for help promoting his push for universal childcare.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Obama joined Mamdani to read to preschoolers and sing \u201cWheels on the Bus\u201d at a childcare center in the Bronx, arranged around a trip to New York the Obamas were making to see a performance of the play they are co-producing on Broadway. It felt an especially long way from Mamdani\u2019s 2013 tweets, like the one still up from the then-21-year-old Bowdoin student, \u201cHasnt Obama shown that the lesser evil is still pretty damn evil?\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former President Barack Obama and Mayor Zohran Mamdani take part in a shared reading event at Learning Through Play Pre-K on April 18, 2026, in the Bronx borough of New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-3029\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7e9582c90fa009ae9d92de96a168f3f3-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7e9582c90fa009ae9d92de96a168f3f3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7e9582c90fa009ae9d92de96a168f3f3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7e9582c90fa009ae9d92de96a168f3f3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Former President Barack Obama and Mayor Zohran Mamdani take part in a shared reading event at Learning Through Play Pre-K on April 18, 2026, in the Bronx borough of New York City.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Angelina Katsanis\/Pool\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Though he has not been officially bringing in prospective 2028 presidential candidates as he was already doing at this point ahead of the 2020 election, Obama has hosted both Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro at his Washington office for longer meetings.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI understand the frustrations that people have right now with the way things are going,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI share them. I think there are people frustrated with the level of defensiveness, I think the people frustrated with the direction the country\u2019s going right now. President Obama is not the reason for it. It was leadership like his that was the antidote when we saw this before.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            It\u2019s not just in the museum where Obama is debating his own legacy.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cOf course I would have wanted something better and single-payer and the rest,\u201d Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari, who introduced him last year at a meeting with other freshman House Democrats and described his eye-opening rundown of dealing with the politics of passing the Affordable Care Act, which passed in 2010. \u201cBut this was the 2000s and that wasn\u2019t going to happen.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            As a junior in high school, Ansari was knocking on doors for Obama\u2019s campaign. She said seeing him 20 years later in the room with her, just a few months after she got her own congressional pin, was surreal.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWe have a new generation of leaders coming up right now, current members, people running for office at different levels across the country who represent hope and change for the new group of high schoolers that are out there right now,\u201d Ansari said. \u201cThat\u2019s Obama\u2019s entire legacy.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Hope and Trump\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            Obama sees his role at this point more as ensuring a different worldview will win out through carefully chosen moments of speaking out, according to people familiar with his thinking. He is building his Obama Fellows civic engagement programs. He wants to keep doing more of the bending of \u201cthe arc of the moral universe,\u201d as Martin Luther King Jr. said in a quote he often cites, while also trying to provide a rudder to keep his party from moving in directions he fears will be self-defeating.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Neither Obama nor Trump is letting the other go, given the issues like healthcare and the Middle East that shaped both their presidencies. Trump often posts about Obama using his middle name, Hussein. And just on Wednesday, Trump said in comparing their respective negotiations with Iran, \u201cThey laughed at Obama and they said, \u2018He\u2019s a stupid son of a bitch.\u2019\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That was, of course, after Obama in an interview with \u201cGood Morning America\u201d leading up to the library opening criticized Trump\u2019s war in Iran and said, \u201cIt is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama speak onstage at a stakeholders event at the Obama Presidential Center on June 16, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. The Obama Presidential Center will officially open on June 18.\" class=\"wp-image-3030\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9c74a9c2a7e16b699532625990d95573.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9c74a9c2a7e16b699532625990d95573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9c74a9c2a7e16b699532625990d95573-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama speak onstage at a stakeholders event at the Obama Presidential Center on June 16, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. The Obama Presidential Center will officially open on June 18.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Pablo Martinez Monsivais\/Pool\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Obama decided not to invite Trump to the opening, eschewing the traditional bipartisanship around presidential centers last seen at George W. Bush\u2019s library in 2013. Trump posted an AI-generated image showing a garbage bag atop Obama\u2019s tower and saying it will be \u201ca \u2018Mecca\u2019 for those who hate America!\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Obama\u2019s despair about Trump\u2019s second term remains high, particularly around Republicans not pushing back. But he was pleased when he heard GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, who lost his Louisiana primary last month after failing to re-ingratiate himself with Trump for his vote in an impeachment trial to convict him over the January 6 riots, made an unannounced visit to the center two weeks ago.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Cassidy was in the area for his granddaughter\u2019s graduation from the University of Chicago a few blocks away, and staff reached out for advance tickets to the soft launch. The two don\u2019t have an active relationship and didn\u2019t talk after. According to a person familiar with his reaction, Obama said that\u2019s part of the spirit he wants for the center.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Appearing with her husband on Wednesday night at the campaign and administration alumni event, Michelle Obama offered a more pointed goal. She said the center was there \u201cto lay this legacy so that nobody \u2014 nobody \u2014 can act like this didn\u2019t happen.\u201d\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3005\">A Mamdani-backed progressive\u2019s challenge to a veteran Democrat highlights party fractures<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama on Thursday is getting what he wanted for so long: his words carved into stone, a monument to his presidency entering the Chicago skyline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barack Obama confronts the work that remains for Democrats \u2014 and for him - 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