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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on October 28, 2011, 01:10:26 PM

Title: State Dept. spends $70K on Obama books
Post by: Chris_ on October 28, 2011, 01:10:26 PM
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The State Department has bought more than $70,000 worth of books authored by President Obama, sending out copies as Christmas gratuities and stocking “key libraries” around the world with “Dreams From My Father” more than a decade after its release.

The U.S. Embassy in Egypt, for instance, spent $28,636 in August 2009 for copies of Mr. Obama’s best-selling 1995 memoir. Six weeks earlier, the embassy had placed another order for the same book for more than $9,000, federal purchasing records show.

About the same time, halfway around the world, the U.S. Embassy in South Korea had the same idea and spent more than $6,000 for copies of “Dreams From My Father.”

One month later, the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, spent more than $3,800 for hardcover copies of the Indonesian version of Mr. Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope,” records show.
Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/25/state-department-buys-70000-worth-obama-memoir/)

Why the **** are we paying for this?
Title: Re: State Dept. spends $70K on Obama books
Post by: Eupher on October 28, 2011, 01:56:17 PM
Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/25/state-department-buys-70000-worth-obama-memoir/)

Why the **** are we paying for this?

Well, he had a very nice precedent to follow.

Adolf Hitler made a fortune out of his book "Mein Kampf." Required reading, you know.....
Title: Re: State Dept. spends $70K on Obama books
Post by: Erasmus on October 28, 2011, 02:02:47 PM
Because government is so corrupt that none of the SOBs can complain about or enforce actions against this kind of BS.
Title: Re: State Dept. spends $70K on Obama books
Post by: Rugnuts on October 28, 2011, 02:25:08 PM
Because government is so corrupt that none of the SOBs can complain about or enforce actions against this kind of BS.
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