Originally posted by magkelly Why he even needs campaign contributions as rich as he is something I have to kind of wonder about. If he really wanted to impress me he'd run his campaign on his own dime. I'm honestly not sure how much $$$ Obama has but he's certainly no pauper if he's in the White House. Him too if he can. Surely they've got better things to spend money on over the top political campaigns. Just one campaign ad could feed and house a family of four maybe more. Think about it. Every ad on TV, every ad in the newspapers, all those crap fliers they send out, that's double digit millions they're spending just to convince you to vote for them, and the stupid thing? In the end is it's all up to the electoral college anyway. You can vote anyway you want but it's not your vote that really counts. Waste of airtime, waste of trees, waste of $$$ if you ask me. They should just let the Senate and the House elect the President and be done with it. Skip the popular vote. It's not like they care what we want anyway. It's all posturing and pretense courting the vote of the common people. It's never been about "the people" it always been about MONEY. Poor people don't get elected President.
The POTUS makes $400k/yr, plus expenses. His personal wealth is not even remotely close to Romney's, but... after his term(s) is over, Obama will receive huge, steaming piles of cash for speeches, memoirs, public appearances, etc.