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  • State Department has spent $70,000 buying copies of Barack Obama’s book

    10/25/2011 5:01:39 PM PDT · by South40 · 17 replies
    American Pundit ^ | 10/25/2011 | Stephan Tawney
    The State Department has spent $70,000 in taxpayer money to buy copies of Barack Obama’s book Dreams from My Father. One embassy in Indonesia spent more than $3,800 buying copies of Obama’s other book The Audacity of Hope. Again, all with taxpayer money — all while Obama profits from the purchases. But hey, it most be common place to buy books written by presidents to hand out as gifts and put in libraries, right? Nope. A search by the Washington Times of the federal database found no examples of the State Department purchasing books by President Clinton or President Bush....