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I don't care if he makes money speaking. Just own up to the hypocrisy of giving them to Wall Street after the past 8 years of deriding them.
I don't care if he makes money speaking. Just own up to the hypocrisy of giving them to Wall Street after the past 8 years of deriding them.
So you do not find it a bit hypocritical?I don't really see an issue. As long as it's not during time in office, why not? At least he probably pays taxes on it
Cantor Fitzgerald invited him to speak at their September Health Care Conference. I'm not seeing any details about the upcoming conference, but here's CF's main page re last year's conference:What in the world is he going to say to the "fat cats?"
I guess you missed that spectacle known as the Rachael Maddow show where that year Trump paid at a higher rate than Obama.I don't really see an issue. As long as it's not during time in office, why not? At least he probably pays taxes on it
But the Obamas do seem to be capitalizing. $4o0,000 speaking fee and someone is ghost writing his book.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2009/12/obama-s-ghost/
Even Obama's inaugural address was ghost written.
You do know all presidents have speechwriters, correct? You think Trump wrote the speech that was hailed as "the moment he became President?" But there's no actual proof that I can find of this being written by Ayres, and he himself makes a joke about it in that video I posted.
Say Dreams of my Father was ghostwritten. You know he has another book, too. Who ghostwrote that? George Soros? Jeremiah Wright?
Trump actually DID have a ghostwriter for Art of the Deal, so it's an odd thing to criticize Obama for with not-so-solid proof.
Just one more:
So I called Henry Ferris, who was Obama's editor on Dreams, to ask him how many of the words in that book were Obama's. Ferris didn't have too many specific memories of the work he did with Obama more than a decade ago. "He and his book now are seen in such different ways than I was looking at them at that time," Ferris explained. "I didn't take on the project thinking he'd be a leading candidate for the presidency." But Ferris was absolutely adamant about one thing: "He wrote it completely and totally all by himself," Ferris said. "No one helped him." He added, "The manuscript needed shaping and focus, it needed editing, a lot of which he did based on suggestions I made. He was a terrific writer, a great stylist. … This was not a job where I went in and had to completely redo this book for him. He needed the kind of guidance any first-time writer would need."
It looks like the use of ghostwriters for at least *some* help is pretty common among politicians, but it does not seem to be the case here. Fake news sure is persuasive, though.
Trump is the best, Obama is the worst. End of story.
..Either him or Carter. A very close race b/t the two...Trump is the best, Obama is the worst. End of story.