Obama Advisor Got $100K Payday From Iran-Linked Firm

**Consmike** · Aug 06 2012, 07:44 AM

Senior White House adviser David Plouffe was paid $100,000 for two 2010 speeches to a South African company with ties to the governments of Iran and Syria, the Washington Post reported Monday.

Plouffe spoke to a subsidiary of the MTN Group, a telecommunications firm, in Lagos, Nigeria, in December 2010–a month before he joined the White House staff.

In a comment to the Washington Post, the White House downplayed the speech, saying the company’s connections to Iran were not well known at the time.

“At the time, not even the most zealous watchdog group on this issue had targeted the Iranian business interests of the host’s holding company. Criticism of Mr. Plouffe now for issues and controversies that developed only years later is simply misplaced,” a White House spokesman told the Post.

So here we have one of the biggest Obama surrogates getting paid by a firm tied with Iran. When will the insanity stop? November can't get here soon enough that is for sure.

**toddwv** · Aug 06 2012, 07:46 AM

Wow... a speaking fee? HUGE scandal.

Keep trying...

**Consmike** · Aug 06 2012, 07:50 AM

Originally Posted by toddwv

Wow... a speaking fee? HUGE scandal.

Keep trying...

Team Obama, being paid by Iran.

**sec** · Aug 06 2012, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by Consmike

So here we have one of the biggest Obama surrogates getting paid by a firm tied with Iran. When will the insanity stop? November can't get here soon enough that is for sure.

did you know that I heard from a friend who heard from a friend who said Romney MIGHT not have paid any income tax one year

Now that is a serious topic

**WalterSobchak** · Aug 06 2012, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by Consmike

So here we have one of the biggest Obama surrogates getting paid by a firm tied with Iran. When will the insanity stop? November can't get here soon enough that is for sure.

When did you cons start hating Capitalism?

**mdrobster** · Aug 06 2012, 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by Consmike

So here we have one of the biggest Obama surrogates getting paid by a firm tied with Iran. When will the insanity stop? November can't get here soon enough that is for sure.

Mike, you had better look in the mirror before you point the dirty end of stick at others. But I don't you are capable of any inflection of your failings from your political ideological gurus.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7119752/...ite-sanctions/
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-s...ogies-to-iran/

Then we can discuss Pres Reagan's direct dealings. But those are okay. Shameless!!!

**Consmike** · Aug 06 2012, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by mdrobster

Mike, you had better look in the mirror before you point the dirty end of stick at others. But I don't you are capable of any inflection of your failings from your political ideological gurus.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7119752/...ite-sanctions/
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-s...ogies-to-iran/

Then we can discuss Pres Reagan's direct dealings. But those are okay. Shameless!!!

Obama takes money from a nation that wants to wipe Israel off the face of the map.