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Offline Chris_

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State Dept. spends $70K on Obama books
« 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.
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Why the **** are we paying for this?
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Re: State Dept. spends $70K on Obama books
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2011, 01:56:17 PM »
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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.....
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Re: State Dept. spends $70K on Obama books
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: State Dept. spends $70K on Obama books
« Reply #3 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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