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AngryGroundhog
There is NOTHING wrong with a politician out of office getting paid to give a speech. NOTHING.
Shade169
didnt hillary make more than 22 million doing speeches?
notbeau
Only 2? Chance the rapper gave a mil to Chicago schools
SadRobot1130
Don't hate the player hate the game
byronshell
Obama is going to be speaking here in Richmond VA at a Forum next year. Not sure how they afford it. My ticket is $25.
JPre35
yikes what to do when identity politics backfires? http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/politics/bernie-sanders-obama-wall-street-speech/
LOlivingVE
This just in: Famous people make money for giving talks. Especially former heads of states. Carter, Clinton, Bush, Bush, Fucking Al Gore!
damethelog
Reagan made $1,000,000 for his first speech after leaving office. Not in today's money, in 1989 money
Sasquatchx92
Don't you know Obama is not supposed to make money and earn a living. That's uh unamerican er something.
smoothlymelted
Why are people mad at people getting paid to make speeches? If people are willing to pay, it's their own money
sonnydojo
I hope he continues making money from Wall Street and just donates it to everything Trump cuts as a special fuck you to him.
d0o0o0d
I wouldn't have any problem at all with that. Politicians using their own money to support policies they like would be a nice change.
AidanNel
When you're not even president anymore but you're still doing better than Trump...
imonewiththeforceandtheforceiswithme
Best counter I saw: people expect Obama to work for free while Trump personally profits off taxpayer dollars.
AngryGroundhog
That & all of Trump's policies favor wall street while Obama's protected people FROM wall street. Matters way more than a fucking speech.
ispentwaytoolongthinkingaboutthis
I clicked the play button...
DogmeatIsAGoodDog
Please tell me I'm not the only who tried to play the video...
watchmang
You're an R-tard
TheRealRavnos
Same here buds
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
says he is doing so "to combat the perception that Chicago is a dangerous city besieged by gun violence." to that I say "good luck on that"
Thefluffernutter
In fairness, Chicago is not a dangerous city. Parts of Chicago are dangerous but it doesn't bleed that much.
wadatahmydamie
I don't care that he made a speech or anything, but "he did one thing? That invalidates unrelated thing" is a silly argument.
Thefluffernutter
In one fell swoop. Not greedy. 2/2
Thefluffernutter
I mean, it works in this case. He's greedy because he took al that money is an invalid argument when he donated more than 4x that amount 1
TakWriterOfWorlds
They did get a 65 million dollar book deal too. But this is still pretty cool.
imadeulook
I can't wait for the book to come out in which he said he wants to be like Trump one day...he wrote it at Harvard. Not released. Coming soon
AngryGroundhog
"...a dreary slog of a read: a bloated, tedious & ill-considered book that is in desperate need of editing". Sounds like a real page-turner!
BenderBenderBender
Say what? Source for the Trump comment?
imadeulook
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/books/review-rising-star-making-of-barack-obama-david-garrow.html
Klingon00
I don't get why anyone would pay $400k for a speech, I don't care who is speaking.
notbeau
His cut of the bailout
kiddub
They probably sold tickets at thousands a plate in the first place. It's an event to see and be seen.
SmellingThePsychosphere
I smell a newly revived and renamed Clinton Foundation organization in the making.
DrForester
A well regarded foundation that does a lot of good in the world?
notbeau
You serious? It was a pay to play scheme for international interests. She's bought and paid for
IProvideFakeContext
No, they obviously need to be like the Trump Foundation. Ya know, the one that spent 10k on a portrai of Trump to be hung in one of his
IProvideFakeContext
sports bars. Or when the foundation paid out settlements on some of Trumps lawsuits.
DeviatedPrevert
i dont know why anyone is surprised by this ... dont any of you remember how bill clinton made his money?
JanoahDavis42688
thisisneil
I'm sad to see that it took 20 minutes for this to get an upvote
18yearoldBlackDynamite
lies. deceit. corruption. insider trading. "donations."
DeviatedPrevert
whats corrupt about it? wtf is the guy supposed to do? he was president, he can't do other work besides speaking
Muttons1337
Like, his resume would only suit him for a persuing a job in law. And since he already got the best job there is in that game, where2now?
Gacva
yes, but somehow they also expect Obama to be the first to stop it. I don't get it tho, if someone want's to pay money for speeches, let em
truthsmiles
Somebody watched that Trevor Noah guy recently!
questionableanswers
Make that Money Obama!
eggmuffin
Because two people can't arrive at the same convictions independently of each other.
truthsmiles
You could be right, but Occam's Razor.
eggmuffin
Two people having similar thoughts IS the simplest explanation.
Wolfsleigher
As someone who was an infant during Clinton, how did he make his money?
snewsh
meet them later.
snewsh
foundation, and then hillary meets with them(when she was sec of state) or they would pay a heavy speaking fee to bill and hillary would
snewsh
he gave speeches that people paid big money for. some say thats how thr clintons did their pay to play thing: they donate to the clinton
Monkeyscribed
And some say there was no pay to play thing and the reason the accusation sticks is a combo of smear/woman with power/tribal politics
snewsh
well, sense she lost the election countries that used to donate to her charity have stopped, for some strange reason.
bondagewithjesus
Source.
bondagewithjesus
Downvote me eh I just wanted source as I'm curious. A claim made without evidence is dismissed without evidence