Obama to Hillary: Here’s How You Sell Out

Former President Obama is drawing liberal fire for accepting a $400,000 fee for speaking to a Wall Street firm, Cantor Fitzgerald. Remember how Hillary Clinton never got over criticism for giving speeches for six-figure fees to Goldman Sachs as late as 2013? Obama shows how you can get away with selling out your purported principles: first you do what your future sponsors want in office, THEN you collect your big payday.

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  • I’ll take the role of the devil’s advocate. Suppose you just retired from the day-to-day grind of the role of the “Leader of the Free World”, and you wanted nothing better than to relax a bit. Maybe when requested, you really don’t feel like traveling around giving speeches. What better way to discourage others from asking you than to demand a huge sum of money to accept the task?

  • On the topic of Hillary – seems the dem strategists have determined that H’s biggest problem last November was that many Obama voters went for not Jill Stein, but Trump. 🙂

    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article147475484.html

  • The Democrats thought they could force the despicable Hillary down the throats of the “deplorables” in a match-up with Trump, whom the neo-liberal fake media bubble predicted had only a 15% chance of winning against her.

    • That $400,000 must be the Peace Prize awarded to Obama by Cantor Fitzgerald for pacifying Occupy Wall Street.

      • Obama pacified the anti-war movement, without pacifying US foreign policy.

        I suppose there are some who would still find that pacification worthy of a prize.

      • He certainly did his part, and the corporate media did theirs as well. I remember radio in the sixties – the DJs were slamming Nixon and the war, talking about peace rallies, offering aid to draft-dodgers, playing “Give Peace a Chance” and the “I’m Feeling Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag” (complete with the album version of the Fish Cheer)

        Contrast that to today. By 9/11 most radio stations were owned by a huge right-wing conglomerate. The same DJs were actually hyping the war! (I mean “supporting the troops”) Gone was fixin’ to die, and Clear Channel BANNED ‘Give Peace a Chance” outright.

  • Mr Obama is, in his professorial way, informing Ms Clinton that the relationship between high office and taking bribes from Wall Street (aka as giving speeches) is not commutative, i e, the order in which these operations are done is of the greatest relevance for the outcome….

    Of course, Ms Clinton claims that the dear professor is in error ; it wasn’t the order in which she performed the operations above that sunk her electoral ship, but rather that dastardly Putin and the FBI….

    Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur….

    Henri

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