bill Clinton created a position for Hillary to have. The state dept ordered tens of thousands of copies of obamas book. One book, even got published while he was POTUS. Not a damn thing from leftists. Now, melania, who planned on doing this a while back gets accused of wanting to "sell off the FLOTUS"
Give me a ******* break.
More hack bullshit from seamen.
The State Dept. ordering all those books was a decision by the various embassies, not from Obama.
The
State Department on Wednesday defended spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on books authored by President
Obama, while
White House spokesman Jay Carney called the book-buying an “embassy-based decision.”
The comments followed a report Wednesday by The Washington Times that found the
State Department had spent more than $70,000 on books by
Mr. Obama.
Most of the purchases came in the months after
Mr. Obama won the
White House, though the embassy in Paris spent more than $8,000 for copies of “Dreams From My Father” as recently as March.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters Wednesday the decision to buy the books didn’t come from anyone in Washington.
“It’s the embassies themselves that make the decisions what American books to buy,” she said, adding the purchases are “based on the interest in the country where they are.”
Ms. Nuland also noted that such purchases were “standard practice” and that embassies can stock libraries with books, give copies to other libraries and provide copies to diplomatic contacts. She said if people went through the libraries, they would find examples of literary works from administration figures in both political parties.
State Department defends buying Obama’s books
