Obama’s $400,000 Cantor Speech Makes Him Wall Street's Newest Fat Cat

[mudwhistle]

It's amazing to me that some people here are shocked at the fact that Presidents make shit loads of money on the Mashed-Potato Circuit after their presidency ends.

Who's shocked?
This is a classic "I told you so" moment.

Is it really? You didn't think Obama was going to make oodles of money off the speaking circuit?

Maybe we should only elect billionaires from now on....to tamp down corrupting influences...

 

[Camp]

Hey dumb fuck, President Obama is merely following the SOP according to past President's Bush, Clinton, and Bush.

You left out Reagan. He collected two million in speaking fees from Japan.

 

[mudwhistle]

I expected it.

So did everyone else.

So basically you admit you libroids are full of crap.

Presidents making money on the Mashed-Potato Circuit after their tenure isn't some startling discovery. It's par for the course; however, it is fun watching you attempt to turn this tradition post-presidential into a teary lament on how Republicans are treated so bitterly unfair.

As we speak Congress is attacking Michael Flynn for doing the same exact thing. Where is the justice in that?

And for that matter, why are Democrats like Obama and Hillary allowed to collect bribes like this, but yet Trump isn’t allowed to earn a penny while he serves as president???

 

[tigerred59]

The more a Democrat tries to say he's different, the more we discover they're no different than the rest of the fat cats in Washington. Bernie Sanders bought a beach front property after taking a bribe from Hillary to give him her support. Obama is no free to cash in on being president.

"Former President Obama is set to net $400,000 for speaking at a Wall Street health care conference; that's nearly twice what Clinton was paid to become one of the most expensive speakers on Wall Street.
Obama's speaking engagement at a conference run by Cantor Fitzgerald LP was confirmed by senior people at the firm, according to Fox Business."

Twice the price of Clinton: Obama to net $400K for Wall street speech​

Obama sold America out to it's enemies and now he's cashing in.......just like everyone else does.
Strange how other than the corrupt Obama judge blocking yet another Trump executive order, the biggest story is Congress claiming that Michael Flynn took money from Russia, despite the fact that Hillary did the same thing. And she never had to declare that she was a Russian agent. I guess it's okay for Democrats to take money from Russia and from Wall Street, but not Republicans.

Yet another double-standard set up by the corrupt left and the media cronies.

With all the shit going on in this country and finally you white GOP mf's got your way, your rule everything....why don't you leave Obama alone? Yaw couldn't wait for this man to get out of your white house and now you bitches are still stressing over the guy...put the shit to rest, find yourself another girlfriend....the brother is married...faggot!!

 

[tigerred59]

I expected it.

So did everyone else.

So basically you admit you libroids are full of crap.

Presidents making money on the Mashed-Potato Circuit after their tenure isn't some startling discovery. It's par for the course; however, it is fun watching you attempt to turn this tradition post-presidential into a teary lament on how Republicans are treated so bitterly unfair.

As we speak Congress is attacking Michael Flynn for doing the same exact thing. Where is the justice in that?

And for that matter, why are Democrats like Obama and Hillary allowed to collect bribes like this, but yet Trump isn’t allowed to earn a penny while he serves as president???

You are too fuckin stupid for words.....Trump is a leader of the US, not Obama nor Hillary who are private citizens...please for sake of you losing brain juice, get off the computer and read a gotdamned book, your to fuckin stupid here, you reek of ignorance, like most of the whites in this country

 

[mdk]

I expected it.

So did everyone else.

So basically you admit you libroids are full of crap.

Presidents making money on the Mashed-Potato Circuit after their tenure isn't some startling discovery. It's par for the course; however, it is fun watching you attempt to turn this tradition post-presidential into a teary lament on how Republicans are treated so bitterly unfair.

As we speak Congress is attacking Michael Flynn for doing the same exact thing. Where is the justice in that?

And for that matter, why are Democrats like Obama and Hillary allowed to collect bribes like this, but yet Trump isn’t allowed to earn a penny while he serves as president???

Like I said: A teary lament. Obama making money on the speaker circuit is so unfair to Republicans.

 

[OffensivelyOpenMinded]

I expected it.

So did everyone else.

So basically you admit you libroids are full of crap.

Presidents making money on the Mashed-Potato Circuit after their tenure isn't some startling discovery. It's par for the course; however, it is fun watching you attempt to turn this tradition post-presidential into a teary lament on how Republicans are treated so bitterly unfair.

As we speak Congress is attacking Michael Flynn for doing the same exact thing. Where is the justice in that?

And for that matter, why are Democrats like Obama and Hillary allowed to collect bribes like this, but yet Trump isn’t allowed to earn a penny while he serves as president???

You are too fuckin stupid for words.....Trump is a leader of the US, not Obama nor Hillary who are private citizens...please for sake of you losing brain juice, get off the computer and read a gotdamned book, your to fuckin stupid here, you reek of ignorance, like most of the whites in this country

Says the silverback that can't even spell 'y'all'.

 

[Camp]

I expected it.

So did everyone else.

So basically you admit you libroids are full of crap.

Presidents making money on the Mashed-Potato Circuit after their tenure isn't some startling discovery. It's par for the course; however, it is fun watching you attempt to turn this tradition post-presidential into a teary lament on how Republicans are treated so bitterly unfair.

As we speak Congress is attacking Michael Flynn for doing the same exact thing. Where is the justice in that?

And for that matter, why are Democrats like Obama and Hillary allowed to collect bribes like this, but yet Trump isn’t allowed to earn a penny while he serves as president???

Michael Flynn was a Secret Foreign Agent, literally, by his own admission. He registered retroactively as a foreign agent after the scandal was exposed. That means he has admitted that he was a Foreign Agent, but kept it secret. Who did that besides him?

 

[tigerred59]

I expected it.

So did everyone else.

So basically you admit you libroids are full of crap.

Presidents making money on the Mashed-Potato Circuit after their tenure isn't some startling discovery. It's par for the course; however, it is fun watching you attempt to turn this tradition post-presidential into a teary lament on how Republicans are treated so bitterly unfair.

As we speak Congress is attacking Michael Flynn for doing the same exact thing. Where is the justice in that?

And for that matter, why are Democrats like Obama and Hillary allowed to collect bribes like this, but yet Trump isn’t allowed to earn a penny while he serves as president???

Michael Flynn was a Secret Foreign Agent, literally, by his own admission. He registered retroactively as a foreign agent after the scandal was exposed. That means he has admitted that he was a Foreign Agent, but kept it secret. Who did that besides him?

We're it not for the media, because Trump and his people knew....that's how they got their Russian connection was through the Flynn's and other Trump people...Flynn would still be State Secretary.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Flynn fucked up and may bring down the administration.

People's stupidity never fails to surprise me.

 

[OffensivelyOpenMinded]

Flynn fucked up and may bring down the administration.

People's stupidity never fails to surprise me.

I'm going to laugh when this all over and you are severely disappointed.

 

[IcebergSlim]

You talk a lot of the same prattle as the rest of the Drudge dependent dross that litters this place.

Very astute man you are! Yes, it was prattle - on Obama's part.

Sadly, so was the part about The Obama's pride in America - on my part.

No....it was the liturgy of stupid on which you have been gorging for the past 8 years....

Michelle Obama's feelings about the US are shaped by her experience living in it......who the fuck are you, pampered poodle, to judge?

Yes 'MO' did do very well for 'itself' in America.
'It's' book about what it's like to be 'The First Lady Tranny' is due out next year.

You gonna invite dannysboys over to your house for a daisy chain to celebrate?

 

[IcebergSlim]

No one held Wall Street blameless..........

Okay, all right. It's true then?...Obama did blame the fat cats on Wall Street.

except for the Useful Idiots who insisted it was Jimmy Carter's fault...
And I'm gonna guess that you sang in that chorus.....

Did you know...with that and a dollar plus tax you can get at McDonalds?!?.

Looking like I nailed it.....

 

[there4eyeM]

Anyone who can squeeze that much money from those people (who don't know what to do with it) should be congratulated.

 

[Toro]

Awesome.

Maybe I'll attend.

 

[IcebergSlim]

Is this the new pay to play strategy? Reward a politician AFTER his term? Would avoid illegal payment laws wouldn't it?

Obama’s $400,000 Cantor Speech Makes Him Wall Street's Newest Fat Cat

When he was president he called them “fat cats,” but now he’s likely thanking them for a huge payday.

Former President Barack Obama, less than 100 days out of office, has agreed to speak at a Wall Street conference run by Cantor Fitzgerald LP, senior people at the firm confirm to FOX Business. His speaking fee will be $400,000, which is nearly twice as much as Hillary Clinton, his secretary of state, and the 2016 Democratic Party candidate, charged private businesses for such events.

Obama has agreed to speak at Cantor’s health care conference in September and will be the keynote luncheon speaker for one day during the event, people at the firm tell FOX Business. These people say Obama has signed the contract, but the company, a mid-sized New York-based investment bank, is waiting to coordinate with the former president before making a formal announcement.

These people add that Obama could ultimately back out of the arrangement depending on his schedule and other concerns such as adverse publicity.

A spokesman for the former president didn’t return a call for comment; a spokeswoman for Cantor said the firm is not in a position to comment just yet, but would not deny that Obama has agreed to speak to the firm and at the $400,000 fee.

News of Obama’s speaking deal with Cantor, which had yet to be reported, comes as the former president made on Monday his first public comments since leaving office after an extended vacation. In those comments to college students at the University of Chicago, the president spoke broadly about the need for public service and studiously avoided any mention of the current president, Republican Donald Trump, or how he intends to make a living now that he’s a private citizen.

And another thing......


There are very good reasons why Cantor is a good place for Obama to make his appearance.....

You might have taken a moment to consider that before going "Full Useful Idiot"....

 

[mudwhistle]

I expected it.

So did everyone else.

So basically you admit you libroids are full of crap.

Presidents making money on the Mashed-Potato Circuit after their tenure isn't some startling discovery. It's par for the course; however, it is fun watching you attempt to turn this tradition post-presidential into a teary lament on how Republicans are treated so bitterly unfair.

As we speak Congress is attacking Michael Flynn for doing the same exact thing. Where is the justice in that?

And for that matter, why are Democrats like Obama and Hillary allowed to collect bribes like this, but yet Trump isn’t allowed to earn a penny while he serves as president???

Like I said: A teary lament. Obama making money on the speaker circuit is so unfair to Republicans.

If you people on the left didnt have your double-standards you'd have no standards atoll.

 

[mudwhistle]

I expected it.

So did everyone else.

So basically you admit you libroids are full of crap.

Presidents making money on the Mashed-Potato Circuit after their tenure isn't some startling discovery. It's par for the course; however, it is fun watching you attempt to turn this tradition post-presidential into a teary lament on how Republicans are treated so bitterly unfair.

As we speak Congress is attacking Michael Flynn for doing the same exact thing. Where is the justice in that?

And for that matter, why are Democrats like Obama and Hillary allowed to collect bribes like this, but yet Trump isn’t allowed to earn a penny while he serves as president???

Michael Flynn was a Secret Foreign Agent, literally, by his own admission. He registered retroactively as a foreign agent after the scandal was exposed. That means he has admitted that he was a Foreign Agent, but kept it secret. Who did that besides him?

 

[mudwhistle]

Supply vs demand

Few ex presidents, low supply

Huge demand

Equals

Big bucks

A synical definition but true.

Course you folks will excuse this.....and then criticise Trump's every move.

The more a Democrat tries to say he's different, the more we discover they're no different than the rest of the fat cats in Washington. Bernie Sanders bought a beach front property after taking a bribe from Hillary to give him her support. Obama is no free to cash in on being president.

"Former President Obama is set to net $400,000 for speaking at a Wall Street health care conference; that's nearly twice what Clinton was paid to become one of the most expensive speakers on Wall Street.
Obama's speaking engagement at a conference run by Cantor Fitzgerald LP was confirmed by senior people at the firm, according to Fox Business."

Twice the price of Clinton: Obama to net $400K for Wall street speech​

Obama sold America out to it's enemies and now he's cashing in.......just like everyone else does.
Strange how other than the corrupt Obama judge blocking yet another Trump executive order, the biggest story is Congress claiming that Michael Flynn took money from Russia, despite the fact that Hillary did the same thing. And she never had to declare that she was a Russian agent. I guess it's okay for Democrats to take money from Russia and from Wall Street, but not Republicans.

Yet another double-standard set up by the corrupt left and the media cronies.

With all the shit going on in this country and finally you white GOP mf's got your way, your rule everything....why don't you leave Obama alone? Yaw couldn't wait for this man to get out of your white house and now you bitches are still stressing over the guy...put the shit to rest, find yourself another girlfriend....the brother is married...faggot!!

The brother is a faggot married to a dude you mean?

You should enroll in night school and get a GED. Your 5th-grade level racist insult posts could become far more intellectual and educated.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was really a leftist trying to act like a media created rightwing stereotype

 

[OldLady]

It's amazing to me that some people here are shocked at the fact that Presidents make shit loads of money on the Mashed-Potato Circuit after their presidency ends.

Who's shocked?
This is a classic "I told you so" moment.

Is it really? You didn't think Obama was going to make oodles of money off the speaking circuit?

I expected it.
WTF!!!

Hillary sold us out in the same manner. Obama is all about the money like everyone else. His ideology was just a ticket to a payday. He lives in his walled compounds while you and I will have to deal with the effects of his Social Justice policies.

He's living in a house with a standard fence in the Kalorama District, you idiot.