Obama Hints at Post-White House Plans: ‘Find Ways to Help People’

President Barack Obama hinted at his post-leader of the free world plans on Thursday, saying he wants to “find ways to help people.”

“I’ll be done being president in a couple of years and I’ll still be a pretty young man,” Obama said at an event with students at the Anacostia Library in Washington, D.C. “And so I’ll go back to doing the kinds of work I was doing before, just trying to find ways to help people, help young people get educations, help people get jobs, and try to bring businesses into neighborhoods that don’t have enough businesses.”

The president also said one does not need to be a politician to help people, hinting at his possible return to being a community organizer. At the event, Obama also announced a new White House initiative that would provide 10,000 e-books to children who come from low-income families.

“That’s the kind of work that I really love to do,” the president added.

These remarks come just two days after Obama addressed the unrest in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray, when he called on the country to “do some soul-searching,” and said the problems in those communities stem beyond interactions with police.

Watch the video below, via The White House (starts at around 1:03:00):

[h/t The Hill]
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