Y/our Tax Dollars at Work: State Dept. buys $70,000 worth of Obama books

 

Unbelievable.

The State Department has bought more than $70,000 worth of books authored by President Obama, sending out copies as Christmas gratuities and stocking “key libraries” around the world with “Dreams From My Father” more than a decade after its release....

 

.... A review of the expenditures in a federal database did not reveal any examples of State Department purchases of books by former Presidents George W. Bush or Bill Clinton.

The purchases of Mr. Obama’s literary work mostly, but not always, took place in the months after Mr. Obama captured the White House.

Leslie Paige, a spokeswoman for Citizens Against Government Waste, a watchdog group, said if the federal government is looking to cut costs, eliminating purchases of Mr. Obama’s books is a good place to start.

“It’s inappropriate for U.S. taxpayer dollars to be spent on this,” she said. “This sounds like propaganda.”

 

The White House says they had nothing to do with it, that it was an "embassy-based decision."

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

In the whole, long history of publishing, this may be the biggest single purchase of a book written by a terrorist. We all know -- despite the ridiculous cover blurb that it's in "his own words" -- that the book was written by Bill Ayers ... and that Obama had little more to do with it than I did with writing the Talmud. If I were Ayers. I'd be rankled as hell about this. Thankfully, I am not Ayers -- and I'm still rankled as hell about it.

[George Todd]

Can you imagine the utter disappointment of anyone who receives "Dreams From My Father" as a holiday gift??? I can just picture it, some good Obama foot soldier gets their mail and spys a neatly wrapped package with the Obama White House as the return address. Getting very excited, they think finally, finally they're being recognized by the powers that be - only to rip away the wrappers and find Obama's lousy biography about a disillusioned-Black-commie-community organizer barely out of law school.