Posted on 03/18/2009 8:13:12 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL
As he empathized with recession-weary Americans, President Obama arranged in the days just before he took office to secure a $500,000 advance for a children's book project, a disclosure report shows.
The terms of the book deal were disclosed in a Senate financial disclosure report filed Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I’m sure he will pay his 100% tax on the income...After all, he is rich, and he should be patriotic and give all his earnings to the poor.
I don’t see the problem with this.
a $500,000 advance on a book that Obama cannot possibly write in the next 4 or 8 years is a gift.
It’s called “cashing in on the presidency”.
Kinda like Bill Clinton renting out the Lincoln Bedroom.
Not illegal. Just tacky.
Heck, when you pay $7000 for a swingset, $500,000 doesn’t last that long anyway.
Holy mackerel. A large advance for a ghost-written children’s book based on his ghost-written autobiography.
This guy is going to leave office even richer than the clintons. You heard it here first.
Next, an anime movie.
Crappy gift considering what Hillary got for her ‘book’.
I see dog with a harness in your future.
“a $500,000 advance on a book that Obama cannot possibly write in the next 4 or 8 years is a gift.”
He has plenty of free time. All he does is fly back and forth across the country and make public appearances. He isn’t making any policy or doing any real work.
The project calls for an abridged version of his book "Dreams From My Father" for middle-school-aged children...the deal had been in the works for weeks and that the publisher will abridge the book.Sounds to me like Obama's just lending the publisher the right to use the book. The publisher will do the re-work. Obama just cashes the check.
An advance to a political figure is a bribe.
Obama doesn't have time to write a book. Yet he is getting an advance on Royalties on the assumption that he will write a book.
Obama is as corrupt as they come.
I don’t see how signing a kiddy book deal before entering office is scummy. Opportunistic but not exactly scummy. But, from the article, I found this quote interesting:
“I´ve written two books; I actually wrote them myself,” he said.
Curious. Why does he need to emphasize or insist that he, himself, wrote the books he’s written? Let’s ask Bill Ayers.
He has a ghostwriter: Tel E. Prompter
Agreed...not sure what he violated here other than morality, but this needs to be viral...Hannity, Rush, Beck and Leno - okay sorry, last one was /s
Yeah, thank heaven he didn’t get a bonus, or anything.
We all know now that failed leaders should not be rewarded with bonuses.
Obama writing a children’s book...hahahahhaha, there have been several “professional” ghost writer investigators, who claim Bill Ayers wrote the book “Dreams of my Father”, and not Obama...they used Ayers book “The Fugitive” and compared writing styles, grammer, language to prove the same person wrote both books. So another upfront deposit on a book that someone else will write.
Agreed, though Clinton’s was worse since it involved something that was arguably a political favor.
I’m much more upset about everything else Obama’s done since taking office.
That seems to be on ongoing habit with him.
Don’t be ridiculous, this isn’t a bribe.
The article says the publisher will be doing the abridging for him.
Sheesh!
I don’t really care whether or not he writes his own books, since I certainly don’t plan to waste time reading them.
Ties to Ayers are more troubling, though.
Did you miss the whole Newt book deal issue?
Sure he can. He can write it while backstage waiting to go on Leno's show.
For a guy who talked about responsibility and transparency during the campaign, this is neither responsible nor transparent for a President to do. This goes right to the heart of him being a classic Chicago politician. The sheer audacity of a move before becoming president disrespects the office, imho.
Everytime someone walks thru the WH they’ll be obliged to buy his book. Oh yeah! Sleazy!
You and I agree on that, especially since Obama joined that marxist group in mid nineties, and has shown that he is marxist/communist. So many disturbing revelations on this guy and his associates, and new things are still coming out. There were threads on FR about all of this during election.
That was slightly more complicated, though I’m not convinced Newt did anything wrong (except avoid any appearance of impropriety).
I didn’t know that Ayers writes childrens books too.
Yeah, I never believed he was the new-tone moderate so many naive, foolish people my age seemed convinced he was. Whether or not he’s an unrepentant Marxist, it’s pretty clear he’s a leftist as well as a politician and panderer.
I can only imagine the kind of lies that Zero could indoctrinate children with. I hope he doesn’t get the chance to actually write them! Ugh!
It's usually people with some sort of character flaw who constantly remind people that they haven't got that flaw. Beware the person who toots his own horn....the melody is usually deception.
bump
The List, ping
If only the editor were a conservative.
That is the best one of the day!
Very funny, thank you. I laughed so hard snot came out my nose.
Hint: He’s not going to actually “write” the book, silly!
well he needs to think of new gifts to give to the children of visiting dignitaries - there you go!
Well...of course you don’t.
I figure he will be giving his...”Little Blue Book” to everyone fairly soon.
Has anyone read either of these books? It would be interesting to read them with respect to his difficulties in the past two months. IOW, I'm sure Obama's not quite the legend his own books make him out to be.
Oh, it was official for me last Spring.;)
We need to demand he gives the money back!
doesn’t surprise me a bit not one teensy tiny little bit
It indeed is dreamy. He comes across as a thoroughly disaffected, disconnected brooding angry leftist. Yes, he seems to have some writing style, but then, so did Norman Mailer (how would you like to have THAT screwball for a President?).
Dude.....
A guy that can’t fart without the aid of a teleprompter couldn’t handle writing a child’s book.
Obama is the dumbest president we have ever had.
When was the last time a sitting prez had his works abridged for school kids' use ?
Chairman Mao's Little Red Book ?
Ethically dubious, but he's from Chicago . . . .
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