Dreams of a Lucrative Book Licensing Deal

Millie, good riddance. If you can’t handle the Jake doing the job the rest of the adoring media won’t do, then you’d best shield your eyes.
Besides, this is ridiculous…another example of the O-messiah’s personal enrichment campaign.

Great idea–because our young people aren’t getting enough exposure to Obama.
He’s stuck them with trillions just to fund his agenda–so I hope they enjoy his book.

“Besides, this is ridiculous…another example of the O-messiah’s personal enrichment campaign.”- Principal Chair
Nice try, but that was just stupid on so many levels… and not needed.
Everyone writes books now.. that’s nothing new, and the book would have been done wether he won the presidency or not.

“He’s stuck them with trillions just to fund his agenda–so I hope they enjoy his book.”- Sammy
How cute! And Bush stuck all of us with 2 wars, a failing economy, and millions without jobs.. so I guess they’ll be reading his book too!… I heard he’s giving an “authoritarian” approach to his book.

So President Obama, will that $250,000 be taxed more or less under your new tax plan of increasing taxes for the rich?
“Don’t tell me words don’t matter!” -Obama

I’m not surprised the president is writing a book. After all, things are going so well since he took over, he has plenty of extra time to devote to his writings.

note to self: take youngest out of middle school, home school instead. Carry on.

I wonder if continuing to make hundreds of thousands- nay, millions- of dollars on a book you wrote years ago constitutes “real” work. I wonder if that is “real” money.
I wonder if people buying a book of a popular politician counts as a “bubble”. I wonder if making this kind of money counts as “greed”.

Wait a second. He’s getting paid 500,000 for a licensing that they are going to sell to our middle schools? Isn’t there something wrong with this picture?
I have real issue here of our President selling a license, getting paid for it, then the publisher selling the book to our schools, being paid for with tax money. This has some serious ethics issues.

“Wait a second. He’s getting paid 500,000 for a licensing that they are going to sell to our middle schools? Isn’t there something wrong with this picture?”
That’s no how I read it. I read it as saying it’s being abridged to that reading level. It doesn’t say anything about it being sold “to our middle schools.”

“I’m not surprised the president is writing a book. After all, things are going so well since he took over, he has plenty of extra time to devote to his writings.”- Plumber
Are you serious?? You didn’t even READ the post did you?
THE BOOK WAS WRITTEN YEARS AGO! He is not writing a book now.
OMG! This is just pathetic!

“Will George Bush’s book come with color crayolas?”
Oh I get it, a stab at his intellect. That’s some funny stuff right there. I’m guessing you have a Harvard degree and a higher education to call heads of state stupid. Maybe Obama’s will come with a toy model of Marine 1? Oh what a hoot!

“Maybe Obama’s will come with a toy model of Marine 1?”
The crayola comment was funny. You, you forgot to include the funny.

In addition to the new contract, President Obama got $2.5 million of greedy greedy royalties last year, from books he’d written years ago.

If the Administration is so ready to admit they’ve been the Administration for only 60 days and knew nothing of AIG bonuses (anyone who reads the papers knows the White House watered down the Dodd amendment at the time of the “stimulus” legislation), how about talking about campaign contributions after the AIG collapse and first bailout occurred via Paulson, Bush, Geitner and Bernanke in September 2008?
Proving that Obama received campaign contributions from AIG employees after the bailout isn’t difficult at all. Just do an advanced search on fec.gov for contributions made on or after September 16, 2008.
After a quick search and calculations (subject to double checking of my math), Obama for America, Obama’s main campaign fund, directly received at least $8,600 post-bailout contributions from employees who listed AIG as their employer. This doesn’t take into account employees who listed their employer American International Group or a subsidiary name that doesn’t include AIG.
Obama’s joint fundraising fund, the Obama Victory Fund, received at least $15,521 in post-bailout “bonuses” from AIG employees. I’m not 100% sure of how the reporting works, but it appears that the bulk of the bonuses paid to the joint fund, at least $12,171, went into Obama’s main campaign fund. And it also appears that at least $2,550 of those “bonuses” came from two employees of the much-demagogued AIG Financial Products subsidiary.
That’s a total of over 24,000.00 in cash to Obama from AIG employees, after AIG collapsed in September 2008, that Obama has not returned or even discussed publically. Obama refused to answer a question on the AIG contributions today.
Well that may be a real story. Proven donations to Obama from AIG execs after the bailout announcement to AIG in the early fall, that could be a real story.
Also, FYI, ABC News itself reports that the Obama campaign received a $23,000 post-bailout “bonus” from AIG’s employees.
ABC News:
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance reports, more than $120,000 of that money was donated after AIG received its first $85 billion in federal bailout funds in September. The company has since received a total of $170 billion in taxpayer cash to prevent its collapse.
Their generosity included more than $23,000 to Obama’s campaign.
Both Obama and Republican presidential candidate John McCain raked in much larger sums from AIG earlier in the year. Obama collected a total of $130,000 from AIG in 2008, while McCain accepted a total of $59,499.
Also, a Connecticut newspaper reports that Senator Dodd will return any “tainted” contributions from AIG employees – whatever Dodd deems “tainted” to mean, I suppose. Dodd has received many contributions from employees of the Connecticut-based AIG Financial Products unit over the years – and AIG’s employee PAC.
WILL OBAMA RETURN HIS CONTRIBUTIONS from POST BAILOUIT AIG MONEY?????

500 grand, not bad. So how much does Bill Ayers get?

Bill Ayers must be so proud–a young mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Not as bad as wasting a crisis I suppose.

Ryan – that’s just the difference in research done by the Center for Responsive Politics v. Open Secrets.
That doesn’t change the point – obama got six figures of AIG employee cash, AND, Obama got about 23-25K of AIG cash AFTER the mid September 2008 bailout of AIG.

ABC News:
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance reports, more than $120,000 of that money was donated after AIG received its first $85 billion in federal bailout funds in September. The company has since received a total of $170 billion in taxpayer cash to prevent its collapse.
Their generosity included more than $23,000 to Obama’s campaign.
QUESTION to anyone who is fair minded and objective —
WILL OBAMA RETURN HIS CONTRIBUTIONS from POST BAILOUT AIG CASH?????
Indeed, using the same logic of those like Obama who are demagoging AIG bonuses now, that if the Sept 08 bailout had not occurred the 165 million in AIG bonuses would not have been paid out, and therefore they should be returned, the OBAMA Campaign Contributions after Sept 08 MUST be returned or donated because those SAME AIG EXECS WHO GAVE THE 23/24K TO OBAMA AFTER THE SEPT 08 BAILOUT WOULD HAVE NOT GIVEN A DIME TO ANYONE IF THEY WERE IMMEDIATELY FIRED AS AIG COLLAPSED, as would have happened had the bailout not occurred in Sept 08.
Any lefty care to dispute this ?

Ryan – noone is saying Obama was bought off, he wasnt. But he certainly wasnt against the idea of AIG keeping their bonuses, that is, until he needed to get out front and demagogue the issue like he did on Monday.
All the talk about if Dodd or Treasury slipped in the exclusion to allow the AIG (and other companies) bonuses — getting lost in all that talk is that Obama is the President and he signed the bill. Bottom line, Obama is responsible for the bonus exclusion in the stimulus, as are the Dems in the House who voted for it, and all the Dems in the Senate and the three GOP’ers who voted for it.
What, Obama didnt know what was in his own bill? Cmon man, give me a break.

“just generally butchers their first language must be stupid.”
Lets concentrate on all the stupid things you’ve said or typed in the last 8 years and use that to judge your intellgence. Not that Bush was a great public speaker, he’s not, that however doesn’t make him “stupid”, unpolished sure, stupid no.
I’ve always been astounded at how the left claims he lied about the war in Iraq, but somehow got Clinton and democrats to say the same things about Iraq while he was governer of Texas. He’s either brilliant or stupid, which is it.

“You get it? Good. Now, if only you can get rid of it. Guessing is clearly not your forte.”
I’m not following. Whats this a reply to? Whats “it”? Guessing clearly is not my forte if I can’t tell what the heck your talking about.

“Psssttt…irrelevant…Clinton didn’t invade Iraq.”
Psst…relevant… Clinton and Democrats said the same things about WMD in Iraq, thus not a lie trumped up by Bush.

“Clinton and Democrats said the same things about WMD in Iraq, thus not a lie trumped up by Bush.”
Well of course we knew Iraq had WMD’s as Rummy and Reagan sold them to Saddam back when he was our buddy.
What was unclear was how much of the program was still intact after years of sanctions and inspections.
Blix and his team were turning up nothing so Bush had to rely on the Niger forgery and Cheney was telling members of Congress in private that Saddam had suitcase nukes.
All the while connecting 9/11 and Iraq to scare the hell out of the American people.
We killed 100,000 Iraqis and lost over 4000 of our soldiers for war based on bs while the people who actually attacked us were allowed to regroup.
Nearly the whole world was on our side during 2002 but thanks to the Bush obsession with Iraq the damage may take decades to overcome.

Silky, I found it incredibly small-minded of you to write, “No, anybody who makes up their own words, can only speak in 3 word sentences and who just generally butchers their first language must be stupid.” President Bush was/is not stupid. Making up your own words (I think the word you are searching for is “neologism”)is certainly not a sign of ignorance. Perhaps Bush was not the smoothest public speaker, but we are seeing that smooth speechs are not more important than executive experience in governing. Don’t just lazily buy into stereotypes. Some of my brightest students have not been able to express themselves well verbally in a classroom situation, for example, or stumble over speeches that they themselves have written. Does this mean they lack intelligence? Of course not. Would I assume that because my vocabulary is vastly larger than theirs or because they cannot correctly pronounce all the words in their wider reading vocabulary that they are not as intelligent as I am? No, I’m more secure in my own intelligence than that.

Barry sees everything through a racial prism in his book, check it out of the library and read it for yourself. “Dreams from my father.”

barry, better hang onto all you can of that. after YOUR tax increases and YOUR hyperinflation both kick in…i gotta tell ya…..500 large just aint what it used to be. wheelbarrel of it for a loaf of bread and all….

Silky, dear, I’m a college professor. The students to whom I referred are graduate students, pursuing PhDs. That’s the group to whom I was comparing President Bush. Funny how your mind works, that you would jump to assume that I mean elementary school students when I never modified the word students with any reference to school level.