Posted on 02/11/2017 8:03:12 AM PST by rktman
Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama announced Friday they have picked the prestigious agency that represents Bill Clinton, Mia Farrow and others to handle their post-White House speaking gigs.
The Harry Walker Agency will represent both Obamas for speaking appearances, said Kevin Lewis, a spokesman for the former president. It's the same firm that recently resumed representing Hillary Clinton for future speeches and handled the speeches she gave for big sums after stepping down as secretary of state in 2013.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Who is making the decisions and doing the negotiating for him?
Is Valerie Jarret still calling the shots?
He will definitely need a speechwriter to feed the teleprompter.
Extemporaneous he is not.
He already took two big advances to write Journeys in Black and White. Maybe it’s time to finally write the book.
That would be the honest and integrous thing to do, anyway...so Obama obviously won’t do it. The money was choomed ages ago, so in his mind the deal went down.
Impossible.
He’s a die hard socialist.
He’s actually pulling turnips at Turnip Commune #43.
I already have a copy of Obama’s book of his successes as pResident: it cost $0.50 at Walmart and has a spiral binder...
Fame whoring depends on potential tit-for-tat future influence and consideration as a result of expected power. neither Usama nor Moochelle have ANY reasonable expectation of having that at an official US national level.
FUBO!
“They called and asked some questions,” Ms. Shalala said.
QUOTE SOURCE https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/hillary-bill-clinton-foundation.html
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GET READY FOR ANOTHER POLITICAL MONEY-MAKING MACHINE ---The Obamas already have two Clintonesque get-rich-quick foundations (two that we know of)....the mission statements sounding suspiciously like the Clintons.
SOURCE http://www.barackobamafoundation.org/
President Obama said, "the change we seek will take longer than one term or one presidency. Real change—big change—takes many years and requires each generation to embrace the obligations and opportunities that come with the title of Citizen. " (TRANSLATION: Me and Michelle want the money pouring in faster than we can spend it.)
FOUNDATION MISSION STATEMENT (cue laugh machine): The Obama Foundation will inspire the next generation of young leaders all over the world. It will convene the brightest minds with the newest ideas from across the political spectrum and draw strength from the rich diversity and vitality of Chicago, the city where the President and First Lady started a family and raised their daughters.
But most of all, the Foundation will ask all of us to take on big challenges and to believe that we can meet them together. Our history and President Obama’s legacy give us hope that even the most difficult change is possible, and the Foundation exists to carry on that great, unfinished project of renewal and global progress.”
Inform visitors about our civic rights and responsibilities and inspire citizens to get engaged.
Empower individuals who are leading change around the world, and help develop new ways to enable all citizens to take action.
Connect people from different communities and disciplines to create new approaches to solving our biggest challenges.
Translate new ideas into concrete actions that will have a measurable impact, enlisting partners across all sectors to scale what works.”
cont
Every official action, official speech, is to prime the pump for big buck donations to existing Obama's tax-free foundations (two that we know of). Valerie jots it all down....and ....bingo....he's got another fund solicitation letter ready to go.
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Valerie must be busy as a beaver....transcribing all of Obama's get-rich-quick presidential "words of wisdom" remarks into fund-raising letters for his tax-exempt foundations and billion dollar library.
Americans demand to see fund solicitation letters coming out of Obama's tax-exempt presidential foundations and his Chicago library fund.
Americans demand to see Valerie's emails, snail mails, land-line bills, cell phone bills, fed-ex bills, wire-transfer lists, postage bills, office supply bills, offshore account numbers, etc, etc, etc.
<><>Demand to see WH comments used to forward US policy being regurgitated in fund solicitation letters.
<><>Americans demand to know if US govt policy is being wrongly used....in an effort to raise tax-free money for the money-hungry Obamas.
WASHINGTON — A new study details how President Barack Obama has been inviting his Obama Foundation donors to events at the White House, a venue that obviously won’t be available to him to entertain mega contributors in a few months. The Obama Foundation, created on Jan. 31, 2014, has to date only 39 contributors, with the money coming either from individuals or foundations controlled by Obama supporters.
The nonprofit, nonpartisan oversight Maplight Foundation found that 15 of the 39 have been to the White House for small meetings or events, fewer than 30 attendees, including everyone connected to a contribution of more than $100,000.
Most of the donors have been longtime political supporters and friends — or at least acquaintances of Obama — and have been in and out of the White House for years.
However, Maplight found that at an intimate White House dinner in January 2015 with actress Julia Roberts, the guests included two couples who had recently made jumbo contributions to the Chicago-based foundation.
And as 2015 progressed, one of the couples at the dinner kicked in even more, the foundation IRS report released last Friday reveals.
Among those at the January 2015 dinner were Mark Gallogly, the managing partner of Centerbridge Partners, an investment firm, and his wife, Lise Strickler. At that point, the New York couple had donated $340,000 to the foundation.
By the end of 2015, they put in an additional $330,000 for a total of $670,000. I checked to see what else was new: Gallogly and Strickler were invited to the State Dinner the Obamas hosted in March for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
In 2014, Tom Campion, owner of the Zumiez clothing chain and his wife, Sonya, gave the foundation $500,000. The Seattle couple found themselves at the Julia Roberts dinner along with folks who have also been longtime Obama backers. Another guest that evening was one of Obama’s favorite authors, Marilynne Summers Robinson.
The White House has said — and underscored this again on Wednesday at the daily briefing when asked about the Maplight report — that the Obamas are not fundraising for the foundation while in office. Well, no one is selling tickets to anything, that’s accurate. That’s not how fundraising at the mega level is done.
Obama will have to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to construct and endow his Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side. Fundraising at the elite donor level is an art, a nuanced dance, especially for an institution that will exist in perpetuity.
Small dinners are not put on Obama’s daily guidance and schedule. On April 2, 2016, the White House volunteered that Obama and first lady Michelle hosted their first White House event for supporters of the Obama Foundation. That dinner was not a fundraiser, the White House said.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said: “What we have said about donors to the campaign also applies to donors at the foundation, and it’s simply this: Donating in support of the President’s foundation does not guarantee you a meeting with the President of the United States. It also doesn’t prevent you from getting a meeting with the President of the United States, and that’s the approach that we’ve taken, again, with regard to supporters of the President’s campaign, and it’s the approach that we’ve taken with regard to supporters of the President’s foundation.”
A lot of this is prospecting for the future.....M/M have Big plans to get-rich-quick ala the Clintons.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/sweet-inside-look-obama-foundation-fundraising/
Has he hired Bill Auers to ghost write for him?
Bill Clinton and Mia Farrow???? Now that’s a pair of has beens
Even now, his resumé will easily fit on a single sheet with room to spare.
and the money laundering starts
They can do what every they want, I for one will not watch, or read anything about or from them!!!
NOT ONE RED CENT, OF MY MONEY WILL EVER GO TO THEM!!!!
On the back of the book it says he was born in Kenya.
Presidential pension...............?
Yep, toss in a caddy and a drug procurer and his staff should be complete.
But whom did TOTUS sign with to handle its appearances?
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