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Non-Elite Obamas Made $4.2 Million Last Year

More on the struggling Obamas from their fans at the Associated Press:

Obama reports income of $4.2 million in 2007 tax returns

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer

PHILADELPHIA - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, made $4.2 million last year as widespread interest in the presidential candidate pushed the sales of his two books.

In tax returns the campaign released Wednesday, the Obamas reported a significant jump in their income from the previous year as profits from the books “Dreams From My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope” accounted for some $4 million. The Obamas paid federal taxes of $1.4 million and donated $240,370 to charity.

Their salaried income was $260,735.

In 2006, Obama and his wife reported income of $991,296. The sum included Obama’s Senate salary of $157,082 and his wife’s earnings of $273,618 from her position as an administrator at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Michelle Obama also earned $51,200 in director’s fees from TreeHouse Inc., a food distributor.

They paid $277,431 in federal taxes — an overpayment of $40,856, which they designated for estimated tax payments this year.

Among the charitable donations in 2007 was $26,270 to Trinity United Church of Christ, where the incendiary sermons of Obama’s former pastor have created problems for the candidate. The Obamas’ largest charitable donation was $50,000 to the United Negro College Fund. They also gave $35,000 to CARE…

And yet they still hate America.

The country that made them rich for doing nothing.

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15 Responses to “Non-Elite Obamas Made $4.2 Million Last Year”

  1. A Mad Pole

    A headline on Yahoo news:

    “Obama reports income of $4.2 million in 2007 tax returns”

    Yeah, he is one of us, right.

  2. BillK

    A headline on Yahoo news:

    “Obama reports income of $4.2 million in 2007 tax returns”

    Yeah, he is one of us, right.

    Of course he is - look how much the Clintons made that same year!

    That just goes to show how the Black man can’t get a break in a White world! Equal pay! Equal pay!

    Mad Pole, we’re going to need to send you for sensitivity training…

  3. Nimblicity

    $4.2 Mill? For those books?

    It’s time to quit reading and get writing for non-elite Mr Nimbles…

  4. DEZ

    Why do I keep thinking of the movie The Jerk?

  5. JohnMG

    That’s only half a title, DEZ. Think of the joke about the parent who was so proud of his son, who was only two, and already knew half a word. Don’t make me spell it out. ;-}

  6. BigOil

    “Among the charitable donations in 2007 was $26,270 to Trinity United Church of Christ”

    That’s just about enough to cover the cost of the camodes in Reverend Wright’s mansion.

  7. DEZ

    ” Don’t make me spell it out.”
    Come on, Do it, Do it!
    Off we go.

  8. JohnMG

    The Jerk?…..Off …(we go) came to mind!

    What’s the half word? Mother.

  9. DEZ

    Pushing the envelope MG?

  10. JohnMG

    DEZ; ….”Come on, Do it, Do it!….”

    I just do’d it like you ast me to. ;-}

  11. DEZ

    Wad do want me to say, We be fooking off topic!

  12. A Mad Pole

    @BillK

    If he wins, we all will be send to sensitivity training, Stalin-style.

  13. Lipstick on a PIAPS

    Why would Hillary and Barak want to take HUGE pay cuts to become POTUS?!? If the accounts that are being held by the Clintons and Obamas go into a “blind” trust I just can’t for the life of me figure out why?! LMAO

  14. cheeflo

    Lipstick — Powerlust. More intoxicating than mere wealth.

  15. Lipstick on a PIAPS

    Why do I get the funny feeling that NEITHER is going to settle for less cash?!? Am I the only one here!?! ROFLMAO


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