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    Former President Barack is reportedly set to be paid $1.2m for a series of speeches to major Wall Street firms, less than a year after he left the White House.

    Earlier this year, Mr Obama attracted criticism from several Democratic senators when it was revealed he was to speak at a September conference organised by financial services company Cantor Fiztgerald.

    Now, it has been reported that in addition to the speech he is due to give next week, the former president has already been paid $800,000 for two speeches he delivered to Wall Street firms - Northern Trust Corp, which he spoke to last month, and an address last week to the Carlyle Group.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/barack-ob...164100266.html
    It's only just beginning!!!
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    Liberals loathe Wall Street except when they're shoveling wads of cash their way.

    I'm always still in trouble again

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    • #3
      Eh... Obama was always in it for himself.
      Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
      But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
      Than a fool in the eyes of God


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      • #4
        Need I repost my rants about Obama being a center-right pro-Wall St corporatist in it for the money?
        "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
        "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
        "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
          Need I repost my rants about Obama being a center-right pro-Wall St corporatist in it for the money?
          No thanks, we're good.

          Not content with being the worst president, he's now working on being the worst ex-president.
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          • #6
            I know money isn't an issue for these firms but I have a hard time getting how they would get that sort of value out of just one speech, especially because there doesn't appear to be any clear political advantage (as the article mentions Congressional Democrats do not appear happy with the arrangement.)
            "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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            • #7
              Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
              I know money isn't an issue for these firms but I have a hard time getting how they would get that sort of value out of just one speech, especially because there doesn't appear to be any clear political advantage (as the article mentions Congressional Democrats do not appear happy with the arrangement.)
              I may be cynical, but the whole thing sounds like a form of kickback. Probably for what he did for them while being President. Or for other influences he might still be able to do for them.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                I may be cynical, but the whole thing sounds like a form of kickback. Probably for what he did for them while being President. Or for other influences he might still be able to do for them.
                That would at least make sense.
                "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                  Need I repost my rants about Obama being a center-right pro-Wall St corporatist in it for the money?
                  No! But you can keep saying how you like presidential image of his, how much you like surface image so much!!!!
                  Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                    I may be cynical, but the whole thing sounds like a form of kickback. Probably for what he did for them while being President. Or for other influences he might still be able to do for them.
                    During the 2008 primaries he went to Wall St and promised to protect them. The donors there eventually sided with him over Hillary. After becoming President, Obama turned a blind eye to the crimes committed by Wall St and said that rather than imprison any bankers for causing the great recession that instead he was going to "look forward and not back". Now they're paying him to thank him for his stance.

                    Fairly typical for your corrupt system. If the insane conservative supreme court didn't keep insisting that bribery = first amendment protected free speech and keep overturning anti-corruption laws as unconstitutional for that reason, you guys might still have a democracy rather than the corrupt whatever-it-is you have now. That's why a constitutional amendment to fix this is so desperately needed.
                    "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                    "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                    "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                      Not content with being the worst president, he's now working on being the worst ex-president.
                      C-Span's 2017 survey of presidential historians rated Obama as the US's 12th best ever president.

                      Can you explain your utterly bizarre ranking of him as worst ever?
                      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                      "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                        No thanks, we're good.

                        Not content with being the worst president, he's now working on being the worst ex-president.
                        Nonsense. I didn't like Obama much, but to call him worse than someone like Buchanan or Johnson is absurd.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                          C-Span's 2017 survey of presidential historians rated Obama as the US's 12th best ever president.

                          Can you explain your utterly bizarre ranking of him as worst ever?
                          Because he was perceived as being extremely liberal, even though there have been more liberal presidents than Obama. And he's black, but that bit is not publicly acknowledged.
                          “He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Tassman View Post
                            Because he was perceived as being extremely liberal, even though there have been more liberal presidents than Obama.
                            I wish he'd been liberal. Instead he did regular drone strikes in 7 countries, which the Orangatan is doing many more of with even less oversight.

                            And he's black, but that bit is not publicly acknowledged.
                            Obviously. Him being the Worst President Ever for no apparent reason totally has nothing to do with him being the blackest president ever. Totally Coincidental. Not at all related to the following election of a racist neo-Nazi sympathizer who thinks Nazis and anti-Nazis are equally bad and who has been prosecuted for racism in his business practices and whose father was arrested at a KKK riot.
                            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                            "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                              During the 2008 primaries he went to Wall St and promised to protect them. The donors there eventually sided with him over Hillary. After becoming President, Obama turned a blind eye to the crimes committed by Wall St and said that rather than imprison any bankers for causing the great recession that instead he was going to "look forward and not back". Now they're paying him to thank him for his stance.

                              Fairly typical for your corrupt system. If the insane conservative supreme court didn't keep insisting that bribery = first amendment protected free speech and keep overturning anti-corruption laws as unconstitutional for that reason, you guys might still have a democracy rather than the corrupt whatever-it-is you have now. That's why a constitutional amendment to fix this is so desperately needed.
                              Pretty much agree with all that except the bit about the "conservative" supreme court.

                              I keep hoping but it isn't there yet.

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