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Obama hypocritical in accepting $400K speech gig
May 7, 2017 OUR OPINION BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWSIn life, what you say and what you believe are supposed to mean something. These things define you as a person.
It’s simply who we are as human beings.
As adults, your words should always be backed up by your actions.
Some people fall short in that department. We are not perfect as a people, but we should try to live by a code of defining who we are with our words, beliefs and actions.
Former President Barack Obama is a man who apparently has trouble backing up his words with actions.
He not only had this trouble in many statements he made while president – probably the most famous was the “red line” statement regarding Syria, which he made 16 times in 2012. But he is now having trouble living by what many believed were his own values when he ran for and served as president.
Obama campaigned as the candidate who would help the downtrodden, the poor, the hungry, the people who didn’t have a voice against the rich and powerful or a voice against what he believed was greed and corruption on Wall Street. This image and perception paid off for him as he was elected twice to the presidency.
But recent news that Obama is going to be speaking at a health care conference in September for the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald is troubling.
On the stump, Obama hammered and hammered away about special interests and Wall Street, yet he has no problem taking $400,000 from the same people he spoke against for eight years.
This seems very strange and very hypocritical considering he frequently characterized Wall Street bankers as “fat cats” whose outsized paychecks contributed to the wide gulf between the haves and have-nots in America.
What happened to his words, his beliefs and his values that he once talked about?
Sure, every former president has a right to go out and make paid speeches after they leave office, but they usually don’t deliver paid speeches to groups they rallied against before and during their presidency.
In his 2006 book, “The Audacity of Hope,” Obama wrote: “I found myself spending time with people of means – law firm partners and investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and venture capitalists. As a rule, they were smart, interesting people. But they reflected, almost uniformly, the perspectives of their class: the top 1 percent or so of the income scale.”
He went on to write in his book: “I know that as a consequence of my fundraising I became more like the wealthy donors I met. I spent more and more of my time above the fray, outside the world of immediate danger, disappointment, fear, irrationality, and frequent hardship of the people that I’d entered politics to serve.”
Do these words seem like a betrayal of the sentiment that he later preached in 2008 and during his presidency?
It is really unfortunate that a former president who pledged to look out for the downtrodden and the unheard seems to have sold his soul to Wall Street, the same people he pledged to fight against.
What we are seeing today of the former president is reminiscent of the Obama in his book, not the Obama who pledged to rein in Wall Street and the fat cats working there.
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May 7, 2017 OUR OPINION BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWSIn life, what you say and what you believe are supposed to mean something. These things define you as a person.
It’s simply who we are as human beings.
As adults, your words should always be backed up by your actions.
Some people fall short in that department. We are not perfect as a people, but we should try to live by a code of defining who we are with our words, beliefs and actions.
Former President Barack Obama is a man who apparently has trouble backing up his words with actions.
He not only had this trouble in many statements he made while president – probably the most famous was the “red line” statement regarding Syria, which he made 16 times in 2012. But he is now having trouble living by what many believed were his own values when he ran for and served as president.
Obama campaigned as the candidate who would help the downtrodden, the poor, the hungry, the people who didn’t have a voice against the rich and powerful or a voice against what he believed was greed and corruption on Wall Street. This image and perception paid off for him as he was elected twice to the presidency.
But recent news that Obama is going to be speaking at a health care conference in September for the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald is troubling.
On the stump, Obama hammered and hammered away about special interests and Wall Street, yet he has no problem taking $400,000 from the same people he spoke against for eight years.
This seems very strange and very hypocritical considering he frequently characterized Wall Street bankers as “fat cats” whose outsized paychecks contributed to the wide gulf between the haves and have-nots in America.
What happened to his words, his beliefs and his values that he once talked about?
Sure, every former president has a right to go out and make paid speeches after they leave office, but they usually don’t deliver paid speeches to groups they rallied against before and during their presidency.
In his 2006 book, “The Audacity of Hope,” Obama wrote: “I found myself spending time with people of means – law firm partners and investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and venture capitalists. As a rule, they were smart, interesting people. But they reflected, almost uniformly, the perspectives of their class: the top 1 percent or so of the income scale.”
He went on to write in his book: “I know that as a consequence of my fundraising I became more like the wealthy donors I met. I spent more and more of my time above the fray, outside the world of immediate danger, disappointment, fear, irrationality, and frequent hardship of the people that I’d entered politics to serve.”
Do these words seem like a betrayal of the sentiment that he later preached in 2008 and during his presidency?
It is really unfortunate that a former president who pledged to look out for the downtrodden and the unheard seems to have sold his soul to Wall Street, the same people he pledged to fight against.
What we are seeing today of the former president is reminiscent of the Obama in his book, not the Obama who pledged to rein in Wall Street and the fat cats working there.
read more