Barack Obama: The 2020 60 Minutes interview

[Rhiannon12866]

The former president shares the advice he would give President Trump, his thoughts on the killing of George Floyd, and what's behind the divisions in Washington and across the U.S. Scott Pelley reports.

[dweller]

1. K&R !

You will love this ..

✌🏻

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R!

Ty, Rhiannon!

[Blue Owl]

3. What a great 8 years we had with President Obama

A man who strove to make the presidency as excellent as can be...

[Rhiannon12866]

4. During the past four years, as miserable as I've felt, I've often wondered how Obama must feel

But it's obvious just listening to his wise words, he is reaching out to the better angels in all of us... Which makes us miss him even more.

[LittleGirl]

5. Great interview

Thanks so much for sharing!

[Rhiannon12866]

6. I definitely thought it was worth seeing for any of us who missed it

Especially as much as we've missed him...

[LittleGirl]

13. I asked hubs to order the book

but he said it’s not available in Switzerland yet. I may have to break my Covid quarantine to look locally for it, in English. Fingers crossed!

[Rhiannon12866]

14. It's not available here yet, either

I just checked out Amazon and it said the book could be "pre-ordered." The same was true with Bob Woodward's book which I ordered.

[LittleGirl]

15. Yeah, it's not available here until

January or something. Ugh

[Rhiannon12866]

16. I think it said it's available here in December sometime.

My point about the Bob Woodward book was that it seems to be the way they do things now, have the author make the rounds publicizing it to build up anticipation well before it's available.

[ailsagirl]

7. MISS HIM!!!

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I know!!!

But we do know that POTUS is a very exclusive club and new presidents (normal ones, that is) regularly turn to their more experienced predecessors for advice and guidance. And we know that Biden and Obama have a particularly close relationship, so we're likely to see and hear more from him, and certainly a return to many Obama-Biden policies.

[ailsagirl]

11. This is true-- does make me feel better

[Rhiannon12866]

12. They really were a team, as much as any POTUS-VP duo in history, I think

Obama chose Biden because of his years of experience and now that it's Biden's turn to lead, he has Obama's experience as president to guide him.

[Duppers]

9. He should be on Biden's new...

Extended Supreme Court! (Both he and Hillary.) Or "Acting AG" for a little while. 😁

[Rhiannon12866]

10. I'd be fine with either or both of them in any Biden administration position

But I'm guessing that accepting a Supreme Court nomination is unlikely, based on what I remember about New York Governor Mario Cuomo. It was offered to him and he declined because serving would have prohibited him from speaking out on the issues.