How about DOING the JOB first?
Un-frikkin'-real!
"President agrees to write book after he leaves office
WASHINGTON - President Obama, a best-selling author who received royalties of $2.5 million last year, will get hundreds of thousands more for a youth-oriented version of his memoir and will write another book after he leaves the White House.
Obama agreed in early January to deliver the new book after he leaves office. The White House said he already had a deal to write another book, and agreed Jan. 9 that he would produce the book after his term ends.
About a week later, shortly before his inauguration, Obama agreed to a $500,000 advance for an abridged version of "Dreams From My Father" that would be suitable for middle school or young adult readers, according to a new personal financial disclosure report released this week.
But he's one of us. No one has advanced me any money for my blogs!
Obama will get $250,000 of the advance and the publisher will get the other half, a spokesman said yesterday. The president didn't indicate how much he might get for writing the new book, whose subject is yet to be determined. Terms would probably be negotiated at the end of his term. Former president Clinton got $15 million for "My Life."
Obama received nearly $2.5 million in book royalties last year for his two best-selling works - "Dreams From My Father," which was written before he was elected to the US Senate from Illinois, and "The Audacity of Hope."
I haven't read them, and don't plan to.
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