Evan Urquhart

This is, perhaps, a naive question. But,why is former president Barack Obama giving speeches to wealthy donors in the first place? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/barack-obama-2020-dems.html …

Barack Obama does not need to raise money. He is wealthy. He is not running or office. I suppose he's just... generally helping out with the fundraising from the very wealthy, because he loves... Democrats so much? Or... is it because he loves the very wealthy so much?

If I could do anything I wanted with my life, I can promise you that I would not spend a single second of it in a room with wealthy donors to the Democratic Party. So, I guess it's weird to me that Barack Obama loves spending time with wealthy donors so much.

He's like: "Look here. When I was president, I had to spend time with wealthy donors in order to enact my historic health care legislation. It was part of serving my country in it's highest office. Then, after my presidency, I realized I just really missed those guys."

"Wealthy Democratic donors, you may not be the real America, but you're MY America.. Anything that might threaten your interests is a threat to me as well, because these dinners, which you pay so dearly to attend, well l I just love being at them."