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

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 “feminist” father.

LOL! I’m sure they’ll be scholarship kids and the $65 mill book advance should cover their room and board.

And please stop with the Trump comparisons. It’s like saying Obama ‘was better than Bush’. Not much of an argument for his ‘shortcomings’.

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I’m just not sure how safe it is. I should come with you. Ya know, for back up and stuff, strength in numbers.

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Rump voters can’t be won over *sshole. At best, Dems can get Indie support and, for all intents and purposes, they. don’t. care.

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I think they do get to make one or two calls. They could Skype him in maybe.

And putting one of the best orators of our generation in a room with them is a bad thing? They are paying him to advocate for our goals. They will be listening. It’s a start. They aren’t going to prison. You can’t ignore that they exist. What you do is stick a Democrat right smack in the middle that can advocate for policies and changes that benefit everyone else.

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Thanks, Obama. So motivating to voters that leading Democrats are corporate tools.

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Bless your tiny little heart.

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My last word is I don’t care how much President Obama is paid by a bank, but I’m troubled that the current occupant is paid by plutocrats who then get their wishes granted as to rolling back legislation on clean air, water, workplace safety, casino licensing, and we don’t talk of it.

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I agree. The idea of going to such a place scares me. I’ll need your backup. We can support each other.

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Cavorting with botanists? What a sell-out.

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I saw what you did there. Crack me up.

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I am retired as well and am nowhere close to your income. It’s good to know you enjoy distributing your income.

No, they’re not.

They are just like the far-right—without their sense of aggrieved victimhood they have nothing.
They are bereft of anything resembling rational thought.

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Amen – the concern trolling on this by Yglesias & others is eye-rolling.

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The more the far Left loses, (and they lose pretty consistently) the more they take it as a sign of “winning.”

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You’re going to need a scribe and chronicler to record this epic tale from a dispassionate observer’s point of view.

I humbly submit that I should therefore be allowed to follow in your train. :wink:

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Tell y’all what, the larger the group the bigger the discount on hotels and other things so all of us better come along to make the economics better.

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Why don’t you wait and listen to (or read) the speech before you condemn him?

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I have no income. Just ask my accountant.

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Face palm

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So what?

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