(04-07-2019 06:45 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(04-07-2019 04:41 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(04-07-2019 04:19 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-07-2019 03:08 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(04-07-2019 02:43 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I think that was pretty much the original concept. The government would be run by citizen-patriots. Frankly, I think we'd be better off to go back there.
I don't really have a big problem with it. How is continuing to run your business while president any worse than leveraging your political office to make millions n other ways?

Neither is ideal. How did Obama, GWB, Clinton, GW41 leverage the office to make millions while in office? Certainly they all made boatloads of cash after they left office.

Umm, that's how. Actually Obama made multi-millions after entering politics but before the white house. I'd like to know more about that.

There’s a massive difference between making millions off of speaking engagements and book deals post-presidency versus potentially increasing your personal wealth directly based on decisions made as president.

I guess you missed Hillary Clinton's amazing cattle futures run, didnt you?

And Obama did make a very good deal of scratch post-community organizer and pre-administration as noted by Owl#s. You skip over that detail.