When will Obama have made enough money?
Posted By: earlybird, 9/4/2022 1:12:18 PM
Cantor Fitzgerald LP will pay former President Barack Obama $400,000 to speak at a conference in September, likely the first of many lucrative Wall Street paydays. (snip) Obama doesn’t really need the money: He earned over $14 million for his first three books, and bidding for his next deal (a package with Michelle) has run over $60 million. But he has every right to cash in (snip) there is something a bit . . . rich here, given what Obama had to say in a 2010 speech (snip): “(snip). I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” Which makes you wonder when Obama will reach the point
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When will Obama have made enough money?
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Cantor Fitzgerald LP will pay former President Barack Obama $400,000 to speak at a conference in September, likely the first of many lucrative Wall Street paydays.
(snip)
Obama doesn’t really need the money: He earned over $14 million for his first three books, and bidding for his next deal (a package with Michelle) has run over $60 million. But he has every right to cash in
(snip)
there is something a bit . . . rich here, given what Obama had to say in a 2010 speech (snip):
“(snip). I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.”
Which makes you wonder when Obama will reach the point
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