Posted on 04/28/2017 4:00:38 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Money in Politics: President Obama's devotees no doubt had hoped he would come out swinging against President Trump. Instead, the only thing he's done so far is cash in on his presidency with a massive book deal and a six-figure speech gig.
Earlier this month, Obama reportedly signed a book deal with Penguin Random House for more than $65 million for one book written by him and another written by Michelle. (The exact amount wasn't made public.) Assuming that figure is correct and they both write 500 page books, that amounts to roughly $144 per word for each of them.
After writing 370 words — less than two manuscript pages — the Obamas will have made as much as the typical American family earns in an entire year.
Even though the Obamas are clearing roughly four times what Bill Clinton made on his post-presidential memoir and more than six times what George W. Bush got, the eye-popping advance generated no real controversy.
Not so Obama's decision to accept a $400,000 speaking gig at a health care conference sponsored by Wall Street investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald.
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where’s mine ex imposter president
Yep, him and his bitches looted the treasury for 8 years spending in excess of 100 million tax dollars on vacations for their thieving entourage.
You may find it in the $ Tree Store for $1 after it flops big time as only LIBTARDS will buy it or they and their dem friends will buy boxes of it to make it look like a high seller.
I’d rather read Atlas Shrugged. At least I’d learn something.
Obama is no different than Clinton, Sanders, Warren, Kerry or any other elitist
Loathe this imposter.
The books will be “ghost written” by others and peddled as the “authentic word” but hidden from the public. Sneaking, lying, gutter Bullshiit just like the rest of the Obozo story.
1 percenter? No no.....the proper terminology for communist leadership is vanguard of the proletariat. They get extra stuff because of the burden they shoulder.
Well, so are all his celebrity friends.....
I’m surprised the figure is so low . . . why not an even half a mill?
That's GROSS!
;-)
Will Opie’s book be a real Tell-All?
Will he finally admit to being a Kenyan, a devout muslim and an agent of militant Islam?
Will he tell us who pulled the strings to get him an Ivy League education and law degree and who paid for it?
Will he give us the scoop on the homosexual “Man’s Country” bath house he and Rahm Emanual belonged to?
Will he tell us about his activity in Reverend Wright’s homosexual “Down Low Club”?
Will he give us the true scoop on his crack cocaine fueled homosexual trysts with Larry Sinclair?
Will he reveal which DC politicians he had homo sex with?
Will he tell us who he actually conspired with to murder his homosexual partners Larry Young and Donald Bland?
Bland was murdered execution-style on November 17, 2007.
Young was murdered execution-style on December 24, 2007
(Christmas Eve),
And what about another of his homosexual partners, Nate Spencer, who conveniently died of HIV two days later on December 26, 2007, just as Barack’s first presidential campaign was kicking into high gear?
Bill Ayers better get busy.
It's interesting to compare the Clintons with the Obamas in money matters. With the Clintons, everything was for sale to line their own pockets.
While Obama isn't above living like an African king, he is more of a "Robbin' Hood" figure, diverting a good deal of government money to favored groups, like whatever ACORN calls itself today, the Palestinians, Africa (through the Paris Climate Agreement), and through Holder/Lynch "sue and settle" initiatives.
With the Clintons, anything we would call treason was motivated by personal greed. Obama is more selfless, in the sense that when he betrays us, he really means it.
No virtue to be found in either camp.
He’s one of us?
good point
I am shocked, shocked I tell you!!!
Obama not going after Trump?
Of course not, he doesn’t have the work ethic needed.
What is Wall Street getting from Hussein? They are not giving him 400k to reminisce. What is his power to direct income flows to them? There is something there.
He has already hinted at “coming out” as a homosexual.
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