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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How did they even know where to start??
Did he retire or get out with less than twenty?
Don’t tell him it’s a replica.
He needs the Frank Marshall Davis family history.
With no forks in it.
0bummer’s an empty, filthy suit and his “family” history is a garbage can stench, so they can pick any starting point they want to make him look greater than good.
“In the beginning...”
Talk about emoluments. I don’t think such gifts are in any way legal.
Taxable income.
He was one of those guys that made E8 in 13 years. So obviously, he's a superstar, right?
Typical Army hypocrisy.
You're a star until the slightest, tiniest little slip-up, then you might as well be a full fledged member of ISIS.
You're then treated as a disgrace and a traitor to the nation.
Over a freaking cell phone.
He was still on active duty with no problems.
You gotta pay ghost writers and fiction novelists.
And that's just his father's side... all of them.
When I was there you had the the “Airborne Track” which consisted of Fort Bragg-Korea-Fort Bragg...repeat. A similar track existed at Fort Devens as well. The DUI status I can’t speak to except to say some MOS’s were tough to retain on jump status. I knew one First Sergeant who went from E-1 to E-8 in the same company. Since then they have made Fort Bragg into a city and Fort Devens into a wasteland...foolishly in both cases in my opinion.
Thanks,I always wondered what my Hank Aaron signed bat was valued at
“How do you set a value for a multivolume family geneology?”
I’m guessing it was written off as a tax deduction, so.....
I've heard stories about guys spending their entire career in the same battalion.
But I PCSd 15 times in my career. It was miserable.
Because of the "Airborne" and "elite" status, Bragg is "protected" from a lot of the BS that happens to the rest of the Army, and it puts a LOT more stress on the rest of the Army.
Which is BS. It's just a light infantry unit.
In all my duty stations, I can count on 1 hand the number of 82d Airborne combat patches I saw. 82d people never leave Bragg and go out into the rest of the Army. It's totally unfair.
My post assignments were Fort Hood (1st Cav Div), Camp Casey (Korea), Fort Hood (III Corps), Mannheim (Germany), Fort Hood (2nd Armored Div), Camp Casey (Korea), Fort Hood (III Corps), Camp Casey (Korea), and then retired at Fort Hood (III Corps). It was easy to come back to Fort Hood .. all I had to do was to request a return assignment there when I came down on orders to go overseas.
Hank Aaron.
Nothing is more important to blacks than their skin color. Nothing.
Frank Marshall Davis? No. Malcolm X
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