Discussion: Reports: Obama Takes $400K Fee To Speak At Investment Bank's Conference

The people who seemed to bitch the most about Obama getting paid for a book are pretty much the same ones nobody would pay for the privilege of reading their works.

Similarly, the ones bitching about Obama getting paid to speak have nothing anyone wants to pay to hear.

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Yes.

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I don’t. They deserve to get rich(er). They don’t owe anyone a thing.

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They’ve sacrificed enough. I can’t even imagine.

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ā€œThe most disappointing president in modern American history.ā€

Not even close–There are plenty of Republican examples to merit that title.

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BRAVO!

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President Obama did say that he would donate the $400K to the movement to have Hawaii granted statehood.

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It’s a question of timing. President Obama ran a squeaky clean White House. He is no longer president and can cash in. In contrast, Don the Con runs a crooked, nepotistic ā€œadministrationā€, and isn’t waiting to steal all that he can. I’ll take President Obama’s approach, folks.

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Does that mean the judges will be real federal judges and not just judges sitting on that island in the Pacific?

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Starting with Reagan, who is mostly responsible for every bad thing coming to fruition right now.

What a ridiculous thing to say about the best president we’ve had since god knows when. The Obama Hate is way stupider even than the Hillary Hate. At least I get the misogyny behind the Hillary Hate but for the life of me I do not get the Obama Hate coming from the left.

Jesus fucking cheeerist. Are the Emo-Progs ever happy? Ever?

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Apparently, a few idiots here forgot that Obama is now a private citizen who’s entitled to do whatever the fuck he wants in the way of making as much money as he wants, as long as it’s legal. If a bank offered me a shit ton of money for a speaking fee, I’d pocket that easy cash in the blink of an eye with no regrets.

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I would tailor my fucking remarks to be those that the people wanted to hear if they were paying that much just to stand up in front of them and talk.

Good god.

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Answer: No.

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There’s a series of islands within the archipelago, I think this one was issued from Oahu, but tomorrow there could be one from Kauai or Maui.

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I might want to make a trip to visit these said islands. Are the inhabitants civilized?

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@tenaā€“ā€œAt least I get the misogyny behind the Hillary Hate but for the life of me I do not get the Obama Hate coming from the left.ā€

It is difficult to understand.

My own analysis: I think it is rooted in the idea that Obama was going to be some type of liberal savior (and a lot of people bought into that idea), forgetting that he had to operate in a real world, with substantial opposition–and that a lot of that opposition was racist.

He may have been a bit naive, or relied a bit too much on the idea of bipartisanship, but those are quibbles as far as I am concerned. He did his best.

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He is a private citizen !! It is none of anybody’s goddam business what he does and how much that is worth !!

Clinton and Obama both told the entire country what Rump is and what he was going to do … they told us all … goddam it !!All the ā€œnewsiesā€ should invest their time in chasing our Manchurian Candidate and what his minions are actually doing. Wake up … they are looting this country … our country and it is far from a reality show !!

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So, because some people are poor he can’t get rich? He should take that money and run. He owes nothing to anyone outside his family.

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Meanwhile, as the Purity Police were bitching about what the ex-president was doing…

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-interior-monuments-idUSKBN17S1MH

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday requiring a review of national monuments which he said was aimed at ending an ā€œegregious abuse of federal power.ā€

At a ceremony at the Department of the Interior, Trump said people’s ability to access and utilize land must be protected, and that the previous administration had put hundreds of millions of acres under federal control through monument designation.

The order is part of a push to open up more federal lands to drilling, mining and other development - cheered by industry but opposed by conservationists.

In other words, Dumblefuck is going to erase Obama’s uses of the Antiquities Act.

But go ahead, keep on flogging BHO for getting paid for a speech. That’s more important.

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He’ll likely put a lot of that money towards educating his daughters who’ll emerge good citizens and not a plastic, nonsense spouting kleptocrat trundling around the world to sell her ā€œfeministā€ father.

@captaincommonsense Has PP set his sights on turning Mt. Denali back to Mt. McKinley because it sounds more American to him and not an ā€œegregious abuseā€ of something or other they told him to say.

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