As the wise Negro poetesses 3LW once prophesied, “haters gonna hate” and their prediction has come true. Everyone from Elizabeth Warren to FOX News is throwing shade at President Barack Obama for his upcoming payday.
Why the hate? Obama is due to make a speech to Wall Street worth $400k and some feel it’s hypocritical for someone who ran and ruled on a platform that painted Wall Street execs as the bad guys who tanked our economy. Even the darlings of the left Warren and Bernie Sanders described the speech as “unfortunate.”
But, Obama’s camp was NOT going to take this lying down and released a statement about the speech:
Statement from Obama spokesman @EricSchultz on his $400k Wall St. speech pic.twitter.com/kwznl9y9G8
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) April 26, 2017
Our favorite part? “I’d just point out that in 2008, Barack Obama raised more money from Wall Street than any candidate in history — and still went on to successfully pass and implement the toughest reforms on Wall Street since [President Franklin D. Roosevelt].”
In other words: “Get out of my way so I can go make this paper!”
And why shouldn’t he? Why is Obama different from Bill Clinton, George W. Bush or Jimmy Carter who all took very lucrative speaking engagements as PRIVATE CITIZENS after leaving office? Hmm. What could it be that makes Obama stand out?
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