James Taranto looks at the revelation that Obama’s selling himself for $500,000 per trick, and isn’t impressed. In fact, even Obama must be disgusted with himself, although his followers are steadfast.
BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski unearths a clip of then-Sen. Obama in 2008 railing against “ ’the cynics, and the lobbyists, and the special interests’ who ‘write the checks’ and ‘get the access while you’ ”–the poor suckers in the audience–” ’get to write a letter.’ ” Quoth candidate Obama: “They think they own this government, but we’re here today to take it back.” They’ve taken it back, all right, and they’re milking it for all it’s worth.

But Chris, the way Michelle is spending he really needs that money.
Get over it – the election is over. He definitely is not the first and won’t be the last. He’s got his future to think about .
The reason the bum’s quote is included, Mickster, is to remind us of how he promised to be different, how he would end “the culture of corruption”. His sheeple don’t care that he lied about this, and just rely on the “everybody does it” rationale, even though they swarmed to elect him because he was not supposed to be “everybody”, he was the friggin’ Messiah! He also promised to close Gitmo, heal race relations, eliminate the deficit, end corporate cronisym and restore America’s image abroad, but again the regressives excuse him because “nobody does that”.
Dont worry MICK, your boy will have a seat at the board of his BILLION DOLLAR library.
I don’t know who “my boy” is. Didn’t vote for the incumbent. Just tired of the anti-Obama posts – maybe I’m just tired of Obama…who knows
You budding hackers still have the grand prize to win: Obama’s sealed files. Hack into and publish these files and the world will be your oyster.