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Obama accepted $30,000 in gifts during his last year in the White House – including a replica Super
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 2/7/17 | Nikki Schwab

Posted on 02/07/2017 9:40:00 AM PST by ColdOne

Full title.............................Obama accepted $30,000 in gifts during his last year in the White House – including a replica Super Bowl trophy..............During his last year in office, President Barack Obama accepted $30,000 worth of personal gifts, including a replica of the Vince Lombardi trophy,new disclosure forms reveal.

The most valuable item was a five volume set of Obama's family genealogy, worth $8,300 and given to him by Thomas Monson, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Obama also received presents from celebrities, including comedian Whoopi Goldberg and baseball great Hank Aaron.

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1 posted on 02/07/2017 9:40:00 AM PST by ColdOne
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If you think that’s all the Obama’s took, I’ve got a bridge I’d like to sell ya’!


2 posted on 02/07/2017 9:42:03 AM PST by Maverick68 (.)
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The most valuable item was a five volume set of Obama's family genealogy, worth $8,300 and given to him by Thomas Monson, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah.

HA! You gotta love the Mormon sense of humor.

3 posted on 02/07/2017 9:42:39 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals w.ould have no standtairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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I wonder what was the Preezy’s take from that pallet full of unaccounted for Iranian cash?


4 posted on 02/07/2017 9:42:49 AM PST by Maverick68 (.)
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To: ColdOne

“...a five volume set of Obama’s family genealogy...”

Could have put the whole thing on a 3x5 card.


5 posted on 02/07/2017 9:43:26 AM PST by Carriage Hill ( Poor demoncrats haven't been this mad, since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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"Hank Aaron"

He was my hero as a kid, but the libs finally got to him.
6 posted on 02/07/2017 9:43:59 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Texas Eagle

I wonder who they said his father was?


7 posted on 02/07/2017 9:44:22 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: ColdOne

How do you set a value for a multivolume family geneology? The cost of research, compilation, and printing?


8 posted on 02/07/2017 9:44:29 AM PST by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: carriage_hill

And had 90% of the space left over.


9 posted on 02/07/2017 9:44:40 AM PST by sport
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To: ColdOne

Doesn’t seem like a big deal to me.


10 posted on 02/07/2017 9:47:43 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Texas Eagle

Fiction isn’t my thing


11 posted on 02/07/2017 9:48:07 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Texas Eagle

I wonder about its accuracy or real market value. They baptized my dead grandmother eight times, each with a different spelling and some inaccurate birth and death dates.


12 posted on 02/07/2017 9:49:11 AM PST by MHT (,`)
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The books are probably only worth $2.95 each, but then they gilded the edges of the paper.


13 posted on 02/07/2017 9:50:00 AM PST by NEMDF
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"Doesn’t seem like a big deal to me."

It probably isn't - none of it seems to have any political implications. But if Trump did the same, the MSM would be parsing it, critiquing it, scandalizing it, and threatening impeachment.
14 posted on 02/07/2017 9:51:21 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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> If you think that’s all the Obama’s took, I’ve got a bridge I’d like to sell ya’!

They expect us to believe that's all he received when he has handed out U.S. taxpayer's funds to Iran and other Muslim nations, ISIS, terrorist groups posing as faux refugees, golfing, multimillion dollar vacations. R i i i i ight...

15 posted on 02/07/2017 9:52:40 AM PST by jsanders2001
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If it had been Hillary? $300,000,000,000.00 in “gifts”....


16 posted on 02/07/2017 9:52:47 AM PST by Professional
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To: ColdOne

There are very specific federal laws against public officials receiving gifts.


I saw a First Sergeant drummed out of the Army in disgrace because one of his Soldiers gave him a cell phone.

17 posted on 02/07/2017 9:54:27 AM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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I am sure they would. I would just be happy to never hear Obama’s name or see his picture again.


18 posted on 02/07/2017 9:54:37 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ColdOne

So does the genealogy indicate Frank Marshall Davis as the father?


19 posted on 02/07/2017 10:04:03 AM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: ColdOne

The most valuable item was a five volume set of Obama’s family genealogy, worth $8,300 and given to him by Thomas Monson, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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actually since the Mormons did the genealogy, its worthless...they don’t source their “research” and they just put anything...

those “five volumes” would all be on the Dunham side, his white mother’s people, and should include Loyalists of the American Revolution (proven by the UELAC*)but no Patriots...

* United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada


20 posted on 02/07/2017 10:04:25 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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