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2016-07-03 -Land of the Free

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Posted by KBK 2016-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Faint praise, indeed. To be fair, our soon to be ex-POTUS does have remarkable skill at selling vaporware. Plus a Rolodex of rich and influential contacts.

Posted by SteveS 2016-07-03 01:26|| 2016-07-03 01:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Shouldn't he go for Nobel in Physics?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-07-03 01:53|| 2016-07-03 01:53|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought he was on the board of S&W ??

Posted by Classer 2016-07-03 05:13|| 2016-07-03 05:13|| Front Page Top

#4 True politician, work both sides of the crony capitalism ripping off America. And swimming in stock options while doing it.

Posted by Airandee 2016-07-03 06:24|| 2016-07-03 06:24|| Front Page Top

#5 He's better suited for some 3rd world banana republic, Venezuela, or some failed African state.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-07-03 06:40|| 2016-07-03 06:40|| Front Page Top

Obama said "had I not gone into politics, I'd probably be starting some kind of business,

Posted by Besoeker 2016-07-03 06:56|| 2016-07-03 06:56|| Front Page Top

#7 I would rather he seek his future as a VC than as any position in the UN. I figured that was his end goal. This article may be just smoke.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-07-03 07:18|| 2016-07-03 07:18|| Front Page Top

#8 This guy spent far too much time with his Choom Gang smoking dope. He is given to delusions of grandeur--his reach is way beyond his grasp.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-07-03 07:30|| 2016-07-03 07:30|| Front Page Top

#9 had I not gone into politics, I'd probably be starting some kind of business,

...till I discovered it was hard work and ultimately required you to pay off politicians in order to just keep what you had toiled for.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-07-03 09:17|| 2016-07-03 09:17|| Front Page Top

#10 The Republic has rarely seen an orator like Obama.

You know who else was a good orator? Just sayin'...

Posted by Raj 2016-07-03 11:34|| 2016-07-03 11:34|| Front Page Top

#11 he's as much of a businessman as he is a Constitutional Scholar™

Posted by Frank G 2016-07-03 11:37|| 2016-07-03 11:37|| Front Page Top

#12 If he does get into a business... don't invest. It will go bankrupt almost immediately.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-07-03 11:53|| 2016-07-03 11:53|| Front Page Top

#13 He'll likely be a glad-handler; a VC version of a booth babe. Show up, shake a few hands, nod a lot during the presentation, then let the adults make the decision.

And get paid handsomely for his effort.

Posted by Pappy 2016-07-03 12:39|| 2016-07-03 12:39|| Front Page Top

#14 Where'd he get all the capital to venture. Public service must pay really good.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2016-07-03 12:50|| 2016-07-03 12:50|| Front Page Top

#15 BrerRabbit, he'll have to give a few $250000 speeches to raise capital, just like Bill and Hillary.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2016-07-03 13:12|| 2016-07-03 13:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Contrian advisor. Get his advise and do the exact opposite.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-07-03 13:23|| 2016-07-03 13:23|| Front Page Top

#17 He wouldn't have built this

Posted by European Conservative 2016-07-03 13:23|| 2016-07-03 13:23|| Front Page Top

#18 His future is not what we see or what he wishes us to see. I firmly believe he will go down the road of addiction and waste away money as any junkie would. Marion Barry all over again. He wants to be up. He wants the feelings and trappings of success. This craving will be overwhelming in my opinion. Media and Democrats will protect and cover thus enabling him and so making his addiction more powerful. In my opinion, he is an addictive personality type.

Posted by Dale 2016-07-03 13:59|| 2016-07-03 13:59|| Front Page Top

#19 Wasted and dissipated in a penthouse suite with styrofoam greek columns?

Posted by Frank G 2016-07-03 14:08|| 2016-07-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#20 Someone should tell him the Viet Cong won and don't need his help.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2016-07-03 14:42|| 2016-07-03 14:42|| Front Page Top

#21 He wants the feelings and trappings of success.

That is so much 'whiteness'. Then again, hypocrisy is something the other guys should be ashamed of as far as the Left is concerned.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-07-03 15:02|| 2016-07-03 15:02|| Front Page Top

#22 Sticker shock when he gets the payroll tax bill, property tax bill, corporate excize tax bill, tax on sales, on and on. And late penalties just before hitting the bong again for relief. His Obamacare system rollout crash spoke volumns regarding his deploable conception to market life cycle and performance capabilities.

Posted by Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 2016-07-03 16:23|| 2016-07-03 16:23|| Front Page Top

#23 This from a man who has never done an honest day's work in his life.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-07-03 17:20|| 2016-07-03 17:20|| Front Page Top

#24 Unelet, taxes are for little people.

I actually can visualize him joining the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Well, not joining as one of them, joining as overseer. After all, they make too many mistakes--businesses go broke all the time. They need someone smarter to guide them, and make sure the appropriate social factors are properly taken into account.

Posted by james 2016-07-03 18:23|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2016-07-03 18:23|| Front Page Top

#25 I suspect some short term success on the lecture circuit; perhaps a year; then his drivel will fail to motivate even those ardent leftists; and he will be Joneses for any sort of gig: look at me, I am still relevant....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2016-07-03 21:02|| 2016-07-03 21:02|| Front Page Top

#26 That dumbazz Obama couldn't get a job as a mall security officer. Picture him as the Mall Cop not trusted with a weapon driving around on a Segway...

Posted by Tennessee 2016-07-03 21:09|| 2016-07-03 21:09|| Front Page Top

#27

He's just practicing in his spare time.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-07-03 21:13|| 2016-07-03 21:13|| Front Page Top

#28 Besoeker - I am impressed. Still, in my mind's eye I picture him with a cyclist helmet and dark glasses to score the safe cool points.

Posted by Tennessee 2016-07-03 21:18|| 2016-07-03 21:18|| Front Page Top

#29 And mom jeans.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-07-03 22:23|| 2016-07-03 22:23|| Front Page Top

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