Barack Obama: Taking money from 1 percenters compromised my politics
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« on: April 16, 2016, 07:28:22 AM »

In his 2008 bestseller The Audacity of Hope, the president talked frankly about how the "money chase" compromised his politics, saying "a consequence of my fund-raising I became more like the wealthy donors I met, in the very particular sense that I spent more and more of my time above the fray, outside the world of immediate hunger, disappointment, fear, irrationality, and frequent hardship of the other 99 percent of the population — that is, the people that I’d entered public life to serve
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« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2016, 09:41:50 AM »

Luckily Barack Obama has done a lot of growing up since 2008 and is no longer the repugnant self-important man who'd publish a book with a title as cringeworthy as The Audacity of Hope.
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« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2016, 03:11:28 PM »

Luckily Barack Obama has done a lot of growing up since 2008 and is no longer the repugnant self-important man who'd publish a book with a title as cringeworthy as The Audacity of Hope.

Or the repugnant self-important man who'd publish 2 separate memoirs about his life before even getting elected President.
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2016, 04:10:10 AM »

Luckily Barack Obama has done a lot of growing up since 2008 and is no longer the repugnant self-important man who'd publish a book with a title as cringeworthy as The Audacity of Hope.

Or the repugnant self-important man who'd publish 2 separate memoirs about his life before even getting elected President.

What does that make the man who has published 18 books mostly about his life before getting elected President?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump#Books_authored
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2016, 09:01:16 AM »

Luckily Barack Obama has done a lot of growing up since 2008 and is no longer the repugnant self-important man who'd publish a book with a title as cringeworthy as The Audacity of Hope.

Or the repugnant self-important man who'd publish 2 separate memoirs about his life before even getting elected President.

What does that make the man who has published 18 books mostly about his life before getting elected President?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump#Books_authored

Well, in fairness, Trump was a public figure at the very top of his line of work (not that I think Obama was in the wrong either but Trump is far more understandable).
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