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Obama gave Common Core contract to publisher, got $65-million book deal in return?
american thinker ^ | 12/9/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 12/28/2019 7:22:36 AM PST by bitt

As far-left Democrats yell about bribery and high crimes and misdemeanors, let's turn to their own side of the aisle, starting with the once penniless President Obama, who left public office a very, very rich man.

He just bought a Martha's Vineyard mansion for a cool $11.75 million, which is in addition to his Kalorama lookout post, his Chicago home, and possibly a Hawaii spread. At some point, you've made enough...but not him.

Ostensibly, it's mainly the work of his book deals. No bribery there, right?

Well, ahem...

According to Investment Watch (IWB), something doesn't quite look right.

Obama gave Pearson Publishing $350 million to create Commoncore text and Pearson gave Obama a $65 million dollar book deal in return.

...and...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bloggers; commoncore; corruption; education; kickback; obama; obamabook; obamabookdeal; obamacommoncore; pearsonpublishing
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To: bitt; Lakeside Granny

Where’s 0’s book?


21 posted on 12/28/2019 7:44:43 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: bitt

“Obama gave Pearson Publishing $350 million to create Commoncore text”

Uhh, I think it was the taxpayers who coughed up the $350M.


22 posted on 12/28/2019 7:45:06 AM PST by Signalman
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To: All
Pres Trump Calls For Obama's Book, Netflix Deals To Be Investigated

Sep 16, 2019 - Pres Donald Trump claimed that instead of worrying about him, the House Judiciary Committe should subpoena Obama's records.......records Obama is reluctant to expose lest taxpayers fund out he's been monetizing official presidential acts....

Both Obamas got humongous book deals AFTER the publisher, Penguin, got hundreds of millions of tax dollars around the Common Core nonsense.

The Obamas also got a multimillion-dollar deal with Netflix for TV productions.

YOU HEARD IT HERE: the Obamas learned valuable facets of TV production in the sewers of Chicago.

23 posted on 12/28/2019 7:48:14 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: bitt

Kickback:

noun:

A percentage of income given to a person in a position of power or influence as payment for having made the income possible: usually considered improper or unethical.

A rebate, usually given secretively by a seller to a buyer or to one who influenced the buyer.

The practice of an employer or a person in a supervisory position of taking back a portion of the wages due workers.

A response, usually vigorous.

A sudden, uncontrolled movement of a machine, tool, or other device, as on starting or in striking an obstruction:


24 posted on 12/28/2019 7:49:35 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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Penguin publisher Pearson just announced his retirement-- the “retiring” Penguin CEO is 57 years old.

Poor thing.......thinking up ways to hide $350 million of our tax dollars musta exhausted him....cackle.

25 posted on 12/28/2019 7:52:11 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Ken522
This is LEGAL money-laundering …. <<

The fact that the 350 million wasnt his to begin with (it was OURS) makes it fraud and 40 other High crimes and misdemeanors as well...

26 posted on 12/28/2019 7:52:37 AM PST by M-cubed
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To: upchuck

Oh nooooooos!


27 posted on 12/28/2019 7:54:01 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: New Jersey Realist
Mueller and Comey bungled the Anthrax case horribly and were brought in to correct the incompetence of the Louis Freeh FBI. They just contributed to the ClusterF.
28 posted on 12/28/2019 7:54:49 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: bitt

Not smidgen’’ of scandle. Nope, not a bit!


29 posted on 12/28/2019 7:56:25 AM PST by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: bitt
The democrats ought to have "It's not what it looks like" as the motto on that stupid "D" logo of theirs.
30 posted on 12/28/2019 8:01:15 AM PST by skimbell
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To: Jane Long

His korny-ran is plentiful enough, sadly.


31 posted on 12/28/2019 8:05:30 AM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: americas.best.days...

That Inaugural address WAS jaw-dropping. I watched it with my daughter.....we both kept saying, “Oh my goodness. They’re sitting right behind him. This is a brave man.”


32 posted on 12/28/2019 8:05:53 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: bitt

quid pro quo by definition!


33 posted on 12/28/2019 8:06:05 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Jane Long

Where’s 0’s book?

It’s not the first time he was paid to write a book and did nothing but keep the money


34 posted on 12/28/2019 8:13:34 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: deweyfrank

What would that be in ebonics?


35 posted on 12/28/2019 8:15:17 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: bitt

Nothing to see here. Move along.


36 posted on 12/28/2019 8:22:01 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: deweyfrank
Can you say Quid Pro Quo?

That’s what I was thinking too. A classic case of it.

37 posted on 12/28/2019 8:22:29 AM PST by Mark17 (Father of Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go much faster than Army tanks)
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To: bitt

Don’t forget that Obama also got a cool $50 million from Netflix in exchange for net neutrality. That deal was rife with corruption. Susan Rice was also put on the Netflix Board of Directors.

The whole Obama era just stinks to high heaven with venal corruption.


38 posted on 12/28/2019 8:56:08 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: bitt

Bookmark


39 posted on 12/28/2019 8:56:16 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: Sacajaweau
You're thinking of Susan Rice. Yes, she of the Benghazi cover-up, unmasking hundreds of private citizens, and exchanging high-ranking terrorists for a deserter in Bowe Bergdahl. Here is the Netflix Board of Directors.
Ambassador Rice is currently a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at American University’s School of International Service, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and Contributing Opinion Writer for the New York Times.

From 2013-2017, Ambassador Rice directed the National Security Council staff, chaired the Cabinet-level National Security Principals committee, provided the daily national security briefing to President Barack Obama, and was responsible for the formulation, coordination and implementation of all aspects of the administration’s foreign and national security policy, intelligence and military efforts. From 2009 to 2013, she served as the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as a cabinet member.

Previously, Ambassador Rice held positions as US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and as a Special Assistant to President William J. Clinton, Senior Director, and Director on the National Security Council staff. She was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC from 2002-2008.

Ambassador Rice began her career as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company in Toronto, Canada. She has served on numerous boards, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Bureau of National Affairs, National Democratic Institute, and the US Fund for UNICEF.

How's that for SOLID and real-world business experience and knowledge that she brings to Netflix.

National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch tweeted that Netflix is “the perfect place for a former staffer who blamed a terror attack on a poorly-made short film.”

40 posted on 12/28/2019 9:05:47 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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