Let’s help make Barack Obama’s dream come true

The WSJ, in a review of Jodi Kantor’s book, The Obamas, cites this interesting passage:

“What Obama really looked forward to, said his friends, was the period that followed the presidency, whenever it arrived,” Kantor writes. The president’s close friend, Eric Whittaker, says Mr. Obama talks about going back to walking in the streets and wandering around bookstores. Another close Obama friend, Marty Nesbitt, says the president has told him he will be able to accomplish a lot after leaving office “because he would finally be free of politics,” Kantor writes.

Time for a new grassroots movement: Free Obama in 2012! (November, to be precise). C’mon, folks, let’s put him back on the street where he longs to be, browsing in bookstores, sneezing over dusty copies of his own remaindered autobiography, cadging free lattes from college students, telling tall tales about his golf game, furtively bumming cigarettes while keeping a sharp eye out for his tobacco-hating missus. Good for him, good for us; a better America all ‘round.

Unrelated update: The one place where Obama is having an indisputably positive economic impact.