Stop policing Obama's money: Van Jones' "poverty tour" suggestion is absurd [View all]

[DonViejo]

MONDAY, MAY 1, 2017 04:58 PM EDT

Stop policing Obama’s money: Van Jones’ “poverty tour” suggestion is absurd

Barack Obama isn't even president any more and he's still being held to a higher standard than his peers

D. WATKINS

Barack Obama will earn $400,000 for a speech he is scheduled to give in September at a health care conference produced by a Wall Street investment firm, and people have opinions about it.

“I hope [Obama] will do a tour — go to Appalachia, go to Native American reservations where they’re shoving these pipelines down their throats and they don’t even have clean, running water. Go to South Central, go to the Arizona border where you have a lot of poverty,” author and commentator Van Jones said on CNN yesterday.

Why does everybody want to count the Obamas’ money? Can they live? Every president and first lady gets to leave office and be overpaid for the speeches they give to people with too much money.

“If he would do a poverty tour first — from a moral point of view, it would be great for him to do,” Jones added.

I’m pretty sure that Barack Obama knows what poverty looks like. What is a poverty tour, anyway? Should Obama hone his rap skills, dress up in a leather suit, charter a private jet and swing from ghetto to ghetto, from reservation to reservation, before doing a huge close-out set in Appalachia?

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http://www.salon.com/2017/05/01/stop-policing-obamas-money-van-jones-poverty-tour-suggestion-is-absurd/