Obama, in surprise appearance, gives 105,000 CPS students free digital copies of ‘A Promised Land’ – Chicago Sun-Times*

Former President Barack Obama speaks to CPS students during a virtual assembly Monday. The 15-minute appearance marked the former president’s latest stop on his busy media blitz to promote the long-awaited, 768-page memoir.
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anyone
5 years ago

Selfabsorbed jack wang.

The True Believer
5 years ago

He is the main cause for the downfall of America. He is a treasonous, socialist, affirmative action king con man just like the kingfish in the old Amos and Andy Show. And his wife is worse.

Anonymous
5 years ago

Needed something to start the campfire for the s’mores

Governor of Alderaan
5 years ago

How big of a tax deduction will the idiot claim for giving away his stupid comic book?

anonymous
5 years ago

How fast will it be on the sale shelf?

Governor of Alderaan
5 years ago
Reply to  anonymous

Straight to the garbage can

Bill
5 years ago

700 pages!

That won’t keep the fireplace stoked for an hour and an outdoor pit even less!!

Governor of Alderaan
5 years ago

good thing the students can’t read anyway

Old Spartan
5 years ago

What a heckuva’ generous guy and he really dug deep into his own pockets to make this available to 105k students. What did this cost to download it and press the ‘Send’ button? Pretty close to ZERO.

Governor of Alderaan
5 years ago
Reply to  Old Spartan

Give him a break, he went through 3 packs of Crayolas writing his little comic book

NoHope4Illinois
5 years ago

Obama said “I” or “Me” more than +3,000 times in this fiction he cosigned.

Bill
5 years ago

Okay, you made your point.

But, I bet that there are less than 300 typographical errors in the spelling of those two words in the entire original manuscript.

SO THERE!!!

Lyn P
5 years ago

If you follow Dinesh D’Souza, look for his video from 11/22 “Obama’s New Book Is the THIRD One He’s Written About Himself and It’s a 700 Page Disaster.”

anonymous
5 years ago

I hear you can put paper in the fireplace and it will start a fire there.

Ex Illini
5 years ago

What did the winners get?

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