Republican Congressman to Obama: Please Stop Buying Your Own Books With Taxpayer Money…
(The Hill) — Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) wants President Obama to give back the royalties on books purchased by the State Department, he said Tuesday.
“Imagine you’re in a foreign country, you’re visiting a foreign embassy, they hand you a very political book written by the president and you realize the president’s getting royalties on. It just, symbolically but also even mechanically, it doesn’t seem right,” Schweikert said on Fox News. “This is one of those occasions where, on the scale of what’s going on in Greece and Afghanistan, it may be very small, but the symbolism’s pretty powerful.”
Schweikert is following up on a report by the Washington Times from late October that found the State Department bought more than $70,000 worth of books authored by Obama. Embassies used the books as gratuity gifts and also to stock libraries in various countries. The largest single buy was by the U.S. Embassy in Egypt, which spent $28,636 for copies of Obama’s 2004 memoir Dreams From My Father.
Schweikert called it “not a particularly pretty circle.”
He sent an open letter to Obama on Monday asking Obama to cease purchasing copies of his books using taxpayer money, and remit any royalty payments based off previous State Department purchases to the Treasury Department.
“Receiving royalties from government purchases of your book is exactly the type of out-of-touch Washington behavior that the American people are weary of and will no longer tolerate,” the letter reads. “Whether this has been done in the past or not, it should be stopped immediately.”
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, November 1, 2011, at 8:13 pm | 
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“The #1 International Best Seller”
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But the people who are buying his book, the taxpayers, are being forced to patronize.
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Finally somebody over there with a spine says something about it
Spreading the wealth around…..one book at a time.
Schweikert, good for you!
Dreams from which father sir? Frank Marshall Davis? Malcolm X? Mr. Soetoro?
Reminder from Jack Cashill’s “Deconstructing Obama”. Proof was that it was not possible for you to write it because of the limited time window. Further, what few excerpts were allowed to be released by you ( your ilk) make it forensically impossible for you to have done it. Mr. President, you are a fraud—simply put…Ayers was the writer
Sorry to say that you are a AA President with absolutely no capability to critically think.
Glad someone with a voice spoke up!
L. Ron Hubbard could keep his books in the bestseller lists with all the money his “church” made and that’s fine. But it’s not fine for the President to use taxpayer money to pull that same kind of scam.
Doesn’t Rep. Sweikert mean the book that Bill Ayers wrote?
@ libertyinall50
Did you know that Jack Cashill is just about to release a new book co-written with Lt. Col. Terry Lakin? More very interesting information about barry is about to be released!
I don’t give a flying nutfuck what obumbler has to say much less give a shit about his book. Liars beware.
This is however a direct violation of turdboys executive powers. Time to take off the kid gloves and lets get down to some bare knuckle boxing.
The first three words of our Constitution is very plain to me. Fuck politicians….WTP rule, not them.
is his book one ply or two ply ? as my out-house needs wiping paper
Wait is this not the Prez taking money from a branch of government and directing it in to his pocket…which would “seem” to be criminal but this is just B Ho and Al Capone/Soros style politics
@ planeboy
barry is trying to earn some money so he can pay off Bill Ayers for his silence about who actually wrote the book……
Fire all the State personnel involved in this.
I am sure barry will get right on that.
At least Mr. Schweikert said something. I am proud of him, now if only the rest would get on board.
maybe Obama’s not keeping the royalty amounts for these State-purchased books? It’s a pretty important book.
Dreams of his father; bottle of whiskey and a commie white chick.
Rush Limbaugh talks about Bill Ayers writing Obama’s book ‘
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql7JOvxdk3w
Bill Ayers at MSU March 24, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfIZDYm0a54&feature=related
Prez “writes” a book and taxpayer dollars are spent to purchase it? NO.
Do you not know that he knows this is not only ugly, but irresponsible, illegal, and/or borderline a slap-in-the-face?
This idiot will do anything to put a buck of the taxpayer in his pocket. It’s like he’s STARVING for $$$ and can’t help himself.
This man wants to be a king/ruler/dictator more than Hitler did. And I’m just putting it on him because I don’t know all the names of those who are shoving him.
Aww come on guys, the guy will need an income stream come January 20th 2013.
There is not a nook or cranny Obama will not find and take full advantage of.
We have a first rate grifter in the White House.
Obama is a subliterate jackass with the ability to read competently (like mid market weatherman level) from a teleprompter.
Other than that, F- student. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
We have a stuttering clusterf#ck of a miserable failure for a president.
Moron. Idiot. Dolt. Stooge. Embarrassment.
Seriously, Barry. Go home. Nobody is fooled anymore. You can’t do the job.
Just leave. Please.
The book has been retitled “Nightmares of a baby daddy”.
@ Grass Mud Horsey
Don’t sugar coat it, my friend. Tell us what you really think.
How much is Billy Ayers making in royalties?
To be fair, He’s actually buying Bill Ayer’s books.
Buying up his own exderated story And here i though all fairytales began with ONCE UPON A TIME ot A LONG TIME AGAO
@Spurwing
Rumor has it that certain birds have the ability to drop the white mass anywhere they choose….I have a suggestion of the perfect target….square on the forehead. Color contrast would be extreme.
How else can he get rid of them. LOL Then he’ll tell you his book was a sell out. Everyone loves him and wants to read about him. Actually, this guy is a complete idiot how he ever became president I still can’t wrap my head around it. All he was a organizer that’s it.
Maybe Cain could also stop buying books with campaign donations?
Next Obomba book “Dreams of My Drunk Uncle” What ever happened to Ole Uncle Drunko??
As I’ve stated before, if it’s so important, shouldn’t he be donating the books?
Here, here!
“The #1 International Best Seller”
Maybe he needs to keep the illusion of sales going. Everything he does is a lie, a scam or a perversion of justice (well, a crime).
Remember BILL AND HILLARY clinton wrote books and liberals went nutso both were fiction
I’ll write the sequel and call it “Nightmares of My Phony President”
Talk about out of control narcissism.
This is money laundering but it’s also just a flash in the pan compared to all the “green” companies going bankrupt after getting millions of my/taxpayer dollars.
This is a $70k distraction and the real theft is coming from all these companies who mysteriously mismanaged millions upon millions in the course of 1 year.
Anyone find it a coincidence that Obama can’t raise money to 2008 levels and suddenly all these companies are going under just when he needs funds for his campaign? I don’t.
“It doesn’t seem right”…………..now there is an understatement!
Well, at least owning a copy of it is optional…for now.