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Obama Gets Book Deal
By Matt Margolis | December 18, 2004
The Democrats new puppet rising star has landed a three-book deal worth 1.9 million dollars.
Crown Publishing Group and Random House Children’s Books, divisions of Random House Inc., announced Friday that Obama will write two books for adults and one for children.
He’ll be paid an $850,000 advance for each adult book and $200,000 for the children’s book, said Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs. Proceeds from the children’s book, which Obama will work on with his wife, Michelle, and their two young daughters, will go to charity, Gibbs said.
The contract is contingent on the approval of the Senate Ethics Committee, he said.
The first book is due out in spring of 2006, and “will focus on Obama’s political convictions.” If you never bothered to look them up, you might ask yourself “What are Barack Obama’s political convictions?”
David Freddoso took a look at Obama’s record as a state senator, and his political convictions are hardly worth an $850,000 advance - nor are they ones most people would want to advertise for free. Freddoso revealed that Obama “twice voted against bills prohibiting tax funding of abortions. In April 2002, he voted against a bill to protect babies born alive after a failed abortion procedure.” He also did not vote on an Illinois partial-birth abortion ban.
Perhaps even more disturbing is this guy is writing a children’s book. Not only has his politics shown a lack of caring about protecting children before they are born, but he also doesn’t seem at all interested in protecting them after they are born.
n 1999, Obama voted against requiring school boards to put Internet pornography filters on school computers meant for students’ use. In 2001, he voted “present” on a bill to keep pornographic book and video stores and strip clubs from setting up within 1,000 feet of schools and churches. In 2003, he voted in the Health and Human Services Committee for a bill requiring “age appropriate” sex-education for students in kindergarten through fifth grade.
And if that wasn’t enough, “in 1999, he was the only state senator to vote against a bill prohibiting early prison release for criminal sexual abusers.”
So here’s a guy who wanted pornography in schools and sex offenders back on the streets as early as possible. He’s now getting a $200,000 advance from from Random House Children’s Books.
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December 19th, 2004 at 10:46 pm
Holy crap, I would kill for an $85,000 advance!!!
December 19th, 2004 at 11:53 pm
I’ve said it before. Obama actually looks impressive. But, I would respect him more if he hadn’t won because the liberal press dug into Ryan’s divorce papers. I don’t remember ever hearing him denounce it.
December 20th, 2004 at 12:23 am
KAhn, what’s interesting is that Ryan was crucified for his personal life– which exactly what libs say was so wrong about what happened to Clinton.. of course Clinton was impeached for lying under oath not for diddling an intern.. but the point is, you’re right, Obama didn’t have to earn his election.
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