How many ways can you spell 'payoff'? The Obama book deal

ttystikk

ttystikk

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UncleBuck said:
the $8.8 million were royalties.

his presidential memoirs will sell for $19.99 at book stores or to download to your kindle.

obama is being paid what the market will bear.

maybe go sell your house at below market value to show us all how much you care about affordable housing.
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Again, HMP will see less than half the gross. The math doesn't work. Face facts, Pollyanna.
 
ZaraBeth420

ZaraBeth420

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ttystikk said:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/06/market-forces-behind-obamas-record-setting-book-deal.html#comment-2824996

$65 million for a book or two? This rabbit hole runs deep, right through 'race to the top'...

Or maybe, 'scum rises'.

What's deeply disturbing about this is the very ordinaryness of this kind of thing anymore.

The Great Experiment in democracy is dead. Citizens United is just another epitaph.
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Obama is a total sellout. To Wall Street first, and now to Amazon as a "best seller". Wow. Our first minority president shows his true loyalty is green in nature.

I wonder how his support base (mostly blacks, and most of them poor) feel about him now sucking the dicks of Wall Street CEOs and book publishers to get rich. He'll probably be seeking skin tone lightening procedures soon to fit in with who he's socializing with now.
 
dagwood45431

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Los Reefersaurus

Los Reefersaurus

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I will listen to it when I borrow it from one of my on line friends on U torrents. IF Micheal Bay isn't getting my money Barack sure isn't
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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ZaraBeth420 said:
Obama is a total sellout. To Wall Street first, and now to Amazon as a "best seller". Wow. Our first minority president shows his true loyalty is green in nature.

I wonder how his support base (mostly blacks, and most of them poor) feel about him now sucking the dicks of Wall Street CEOs and book publishers to get rich. He'll probably be seeking skin tone lightening procedures soon to fit in with who he's socializing with now.
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Tying simple corruption to racism is a distraction.

Stop commenting in my threads. You're a disgusting waste of humanity.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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UncleBuck said:
the $8.8 million were royalties.

his presidential memoirs will sell for $19.99 at book stores or to download to your kindle.

obama is being paid what the market will bear.

maybe go sell your house at below market value to show us all how much you care about affordable housing.
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Why don't you work for free?

It's a payoff, pure and simple.

The fact that you're here trying so hard tells me you'd back whatever they do, corrupt or not.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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ttystikk said:
Again, HMP will see less than half the gross. The math doesn't work. Face facts, Pollyanna.
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how many copies at $20 a pop would they have to sell to cover $65 million?

answer: 3.25 million

how many copies of his book did obama sell before being a successful and popular two term president?

answer: 5 million

if obama sells just 6 million copies of his book at $20 a pop, how much does that come out to?

answer: $120 million

too radicalized to math. go start your own party, guys. you are officially out of the democratic party. we DO NOT want you.
 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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we DO NOT want you.
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Then act like it.

Stop supporting Bernie Sanders. Stop funding his issues.

Give up on him, abandon him, publicly denounce him. DO IT NOW.


Do it. Tell the American people you disassociate with everything he stands for.

Do it.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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UncleBuck said:
how many copies at $20 a pop would they have to sell to cover $65 million?

answer: 3.25 million

how many copies of his book did obama sell before being a successful and popular two term president?

answer: 5 million

if obama sells just 6 million copies of his book at $20 a pop, how much does that come out to?

answer: $120 million

too radicalized to math. go start your own party, guys. you are officially out of the democratic party. we DO NOT want you.
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Your math is wishful thinking; publishers get at most half the cover price. Remember, they still have publishing costs. The $65 million advance against royalties doesn't add up.

But keep shilling for your beloved Democrats, Pollyanna.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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ttystikk said:
Your math is wishful thinking; publishers get at most half the cover price. Remember, they still have publishing costs. The $65 million advance against royalties doesn't add up.

But keep shilling for your beloved Democrats, Pollyanna.
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it doesn't cost shit to digitalize a book and sell it via kindle. printing a hard copy is not that much more. and i'm not even counting all the money that's gonna be drummed up when obama goes on book signing tours either.

i'd pay $5000 to meet the man and have him sign a copy for me, and i'm only middle class.
 
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