It seems like Obama has pretty much been a failure at everything he's ever done, except bilking people out of money.
He's like the proverbial guy who can fall into a pile of shit and come out smelling like a rose. He single-handed destroyed the American economy and left office a multi-millionaire. Obama is a grifter, a con-man, a petty thief, a shyster.
One day, if justice prevails, he will end up broke and in prison.
Barack Obama, in fact, has a history of failing to perform. A 2006 article by publisher Peter Osnos shed some unflattering light on Obama’s deadline problems. As Osnos related, a 1990 New York Times profile on the Harvard Law Review’s first black president caught the eye of hustling young literary agent Jane Dystel. Dystel persuaded Obama to put a book proposal together, and she submitted it. Poseidon, a small imprint of Simon & Schuster, signed on and authorized a roughly $125,000 advance in November 1990 for Obama’s proposed book.
With advance in hand, Obama repaired to Chicago, where the University of Chicago offered him a stipend, benefits, and an office to help him write what Obama told the administrators would be a book on race and voting rights. He also did some writing at the offices of his new employer, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, the town’s leading civil rights firm. Some of his new colleagues were reportedly less than thrilled to see their young associate, feet up on his desk, doodling on his book on company time. The named partners, however, indulged him.
In the spring of 1992, on top of his existing obligations, Obama was offered the opportunity to head up Project Vote, a “nonpartisan” voter registration effort designed to herd thousands of fresh Democrats to the polls come November. If Obama accepted the offer, he would have still another excuse for not being able to meet his June 15, 1992, manuscript deadline despite the generous 18 months he had been allotted. He took the job and missed the deadline. Simon & Schuster extended it.
In November 1992, he and Michelle married. After their honeymoon, in order to finish without interruption, Obama decamped to Bali for a month. Nothing happened.
“Obama had missed deadlines and handed in bloated, yet incomplete drafts,” wrote friendly biographer David Remnick in his 2010 book, The Bridge. Bali or not, advance or no, Obama could not produce. He was surely in way over his head.
https://spectator.org/obama-book-deal-failure-to-perform/
He's like the proverbial guy who can fall into a pile of shit and come out smelling like a rose. He single-handed destroyed the American economy and left office a multi-millionaire. Obama is a grifter, a con-man, a petty thief, a shyster.
One day, if justice prevails, he will end up broke and in prison.
Barack Obama, in fact, has a history of failing to perform. A 2006 article by publisher Peter Osnos shed some unflattering light on Obama’s deadline problems. As Osnos related, a 1990 New York Times profile on the Harvard Law Review’s first black president caught the eye of hustling young literary agent Jane Dystel. Dystel persuaded Obama to put a book proposal together, and she submitted it. Poseidon, a small imprint of Simon & Schuster, signed on and authorized a roughly $125,000 advance in November 1990 for Obama’s proposed book.
With advance in hand, Obama repaired to Chicago, where the University of Chicago offered him a stipend, benefits, and an office to help him write what Obama told the administrators would be a book on race and voting rights. He also did some writing at the offices of his new employer, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, the town’s leading civil rights firm. Some of his new colleagues were reportedly less than thrilled to see their young associate, feet up on his desk, doodling on his book on company time. The named partners, however, indulged him.
In the spring of 1992, on top of his existing obligations, Obama was offered the opportunity to head up Project Vote, a “nonpartisan” voter registration effort designed to herd thousands of fresh Democrats to the polls come November. If Obama accepted the offer, he would have still another excuse for not being able to meet his June 15, 1992, manuscript deadline despite the generous 18 months he had been allotted. He took the job and missed the deadline. Simon & Schuster extended it.
In November 1992, he and Michelle married. After their honeymoon, in order to finish without interruption, Obama decamped to Bali for a month. Nothing happened.
“Obama had missed deadlines and handed in bloated, yet incomplete drafts,” wrote friendly biographer David Remnick in his 2010 book, The Bridge. Bali or not, advance or no, Obama could not produce. He was surely in way over his head.
https://spectator.org/obama-book-deal-failure-to-perform/
