[NYT] “President Obama will cash a $400,000 check from Cantor Fitzgerald when he delivers a speech in September at a health care conference run by Cantor Fitzgerald, a trading and investment firm.
On Wednesday, Mr. Obama’s spokesman defended the former president’s coming speech, saying Mr. Obama decided to give it because health care changes were important to him. The spokesman, Eric Schultz, noted that Cantor Fitzgerald is a Wall Street firm but pointed out in a statement that as a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama raised money from Wall Street and went on to aggressively regulate it.
Mr. Obama will spend most of his post-presidency, Mr. Schultz said, “training and elevating a new generation of political leaders in America.”
As for me personally, I unequivocally support former
President Obama to speak wherever and whenever he
chooses to do so. Mr. Obama has proven to be one of the
most ethical and scandal free President in modern day
Politics. The former President has a right to make the best
out of life for him and his family.
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