Obama Scores $400,000 Wall Street Speech Making Hillary Look Like A Bargain? [Opinion]
Barack Obama is the latest hot commodity when it comes to speaking engagements, if the price for an hour of his time is any indication. The former president has followed in Hillary ‘s footsteps, which are the same footsteps that eventually led her off a political cliff. Obama is not only getting double the price of Hillary for a speech, but he is getting double the backlash for agreeing to speak for the Wall Street crowd he once called “fat cats.”
Hillary has also done the Wall Street circuit with her paid speeches, but the only thing Obama has done differently than the former Secretary of State is put a much higher value on his time than Hillary. The intense criticism Obama is facing today follows the news that the former president agreeing to a $ 400,000 speaking fee for a Cantor Fitzgerald LP hosted Wall Street conference, reports the New York Post.
