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Yeah but how do you not get preferential treatment when you have one of "the names"? If it doesn't end up influencing policy decisions and such, it may not be r

Yeah but how do you not get preferential treatment when you have one of "the names"? If it doesn't end up influencing policy decisions and such, it may not be right but it is tough to stop. Should these brothers and kids of famous people not have jobs? Obama, probably one of if not the most well-known person IN THE WORLD, wants to write a book. How could the deal not be worth a ton? Makes complete sense. Also the book is just a book. If people buy it, then he should make money.

m0zg 7y ago
Sounds to me you're OK with pervasive corruption then. How many book deals do you know of that include a $65M payday? Especially a ghostwritten book which few people will ever read. Most book authors barely scrape by. Pearson will almost certainly lose money on this, if you exclude the Common Core contract. Best thing would be if the president's family already had successful businesses and did not expand them thanks to "the name", which is what we have now. Mike Pence's family also didn't suddenly become "very talented" either it looks like, or we'd know about it already. At a minimum, I want the "free press" and the various oversight bodies to scrutinize this shit with a magnifying glass and drag it into the open _irrespective_ of the political affiliation of whoever is in the White House.