Your President is cheap
Can this be right: that privileged access to your President can be bought for a mere $35,800?
He is selling himself cheap. I'm very surprised that on their recent Brokeback-Mountain-style get-together, President Obama didn't find time to discuss with David Cameron the appropriate going rate for cash-for-access to a head of state.
It is in fact around £250,00 for "premier league" access to David Cameron for dinner in his private apartment at which he will personally serve you home-cooked sausages or similar, in a chef's apron with humorous writing on it and with shirt sleeves rolled up to simulate relaxedness, Or similar. In turn you get to dictate UK government policy on the issue of your choice.
So, well over ten times more than your President has been asking. Seriously guys, you need to have a word. How are you ever going to sort out the deficit unless you start charging the market rate.
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May '10
Re: Your President is cheap
We make it up in volume.
Apr '11
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There's never been anything in the US like the sheer value for money that was apparently being offered in the cash for peerages scandal. Six-seven figure sums for lifelong office? Even before you consider that these were loans at commercial rates, it'd be hard not to make a good return on that, given the enhancement it adds to your directors fees (or journalist salary, speakers fees, etc.). And there's still some social cache to it.
May '10
Re: Your President is cheap
You get what you pay for.
May '10
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We have established what politicians are. All that's left is to negotiate the price.
Oct '10
Re: Your President is cheap
As the great Will Rogers said, "America has the best politicians money can buy."
Our Walmart president cannot compete with your Harrod's PM.
Mar '11
Re: Your President is cheap
Be careful doing that in Columbia. You could have complications.
Oct '10
Re: Your President is cheap
Might that be in Pounds Sterling ? Alas, one cannot visualize Obama with rolled up sleeves, donning an apron in the kitchen cooking up a meal.
If by some chance this did unfold it is unlikely that Michelle would lecture you on the choice of veggies, if any. What a set of performances that would be.
Oct '10
Re: Your President is cheap
Percival
Be careful doing that in Columbia. You could have complications. · 2 minutes ago
Just negotiate with reasonable faith and bring a cadre of loyal well paid scary looking bodyguards with long memories.
Sep '10
Re: Your President is cheap
Apparently Mr. Cameron didn't pay enough--must be part of his austerity program--because a couple of days later the One tried to refer to the Falklands as the 'Malvinas'. Except that he messed that up, too.
Re: Your President is cheap
@dogsbody - I think he was showing solidarity with the global warming afflicted Maldives. As you know they are sinking beneath the ocean due to man's wanton selfishness and greed. That's why they're building 7 new airports (no really) to accommodate all the tourists flying in to see these precious Indian Ocean jewels before they drown.
Feb '11
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That aside in the sub-headline and repeated in the photo caption ain't so hot either:
Barack Obama made an uncharacteristic error, more akin to those of his predecessor George W Bush, by referring to the Falkland Islands as the Maldives.
Jul '10
Re: Your President is cheap
Exactly.
James, I dispute the accuracy of your title. Barry might be cheap for a night, but he's awfully expensive to keep.
Jul '11
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"So, well over ten times more than your President has been asking. Seriously guys, you need to have a word. How are you ever going to sort out the deficit unless you start charging the market rate."
We'll form a continental currency with Canada and Mexico, call it the NAFTO, and all will be well! That's how it's panning out in Europe right now, correct? Everything's peachy-keen, just a tad bit east of Manhattan?
Apr '12
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If money is the issue, then Rich Mitt should be less corrupted by the system?
Sep '11
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Palaeologus
Exactly.
James, I dispute the accuracy of your title. Barry might be cheap for a night, but he's awfully expensive to keep. · 8 hours ago
The problem isn't with James's accuracy. It's with his English. (He's a foreigner, after all, so one must make allowances....)
Obama isn't cheap. He's easy.
Apr '12
Re: Your President is cheap
Why invent a better mouse trap, when you can hire Atilla to club your competitors over the head with needless regulation?
May '10
Re: Your President is cheap
You get what you pay for.
James, on a recent visit to London I discovered Central Command for global warming/climate change. It's the London Zoo, where I discovered that virtually every species on the planet is under dire threat of extinction if we do not radically cut carbon emissions and donate more money to their enterprise. Kids that can read (my 5 year old doesn't focus on the text) don't stand a chance.