$19 per office? With all those speakers? The arena holds 13,000 people, and even if they all paid $19 each (instead of an entire office for $19), that's a gross of just $250K or so. If the average office sends two people, that's a gross of $125K (assuming a sell-out). And they have to pay the former legendary president of Microsoft (no, not Bill Gates, Rick Belluzo), and you know he's going to want a big cut of that take. I know Texans still like Bush, but I dont think they would rent the building for free and all the employees would work for free.

So what's the catch here? How does a show like this make money? Sponsors? I know lots of companies depend on morons to buy their products and services, but is that what a seminar like this is designed to do, attract people who are willing to waste a day listening to all this nonsense just to get away from the office?

The Pepsi center holds 18,000 if you don't count seats on the floor (that they don't have when playing hockey). I've heard that the sales were so bad they came up with this fire sale plan to fill the seats because it would have been a problem to have 5,000 seats filled.

I hear he has a mainly incentive-driven contract. He gets $100 for every complete & coherent sentence he delivers.

Could pocket a cool grand, maybe two if he rehearses.

It's a Catch 22 sort of thang.

He can't be a motivational speaker until he gets some experience, and he can't... Well, you get the picture.

Give the boy a break. He is young, and he needs to learn a trade.

$500 tops and that if he uses that little prompter thingy he wore during the debates.

I bet nobody gets to ask questions.

Unless they are pre-planned questions. Just ask Obamacorn.

Obamacorn? Is that a new product from ADM?

Its the new battle call for 2010.

Obama + ACORN= Obamacorn.

Defeat of the National Socialists Party (Dems)

About 20% of Americans identify themselves as republicans. According to Gallup, of that 20% there are 39% who approve of the republican party.

Good luck with those numbers.

The facts are that Acorn was paid to register new voters. Acorn did not elect Obama. They could go out of business next week and not have any impact on 2010.

Paid to register new (dems) voters primarily in the hood.

OH NO! NOT THE "HOOD"! <Gasp> How could it be any WORSE??? I SEE BLACK PEOPLE VOTING.

They registered anyone, repubs and dems. They did not try to persuade anyone to go one way or the other, unlike a repub organization that ran into legal trouble for throwing out democratic registrations.

I worked on voter registration for the Obama campaign. I was not paid and I walked precincts that were chosen based on census data that showed middle class and lower middle class neighborhoods. I also worked some distinctly upper class neighborhoods, but less often. We also tried selecting precincts where a large number of veterans were reported. All of that info is available in data bases that can be bought from the state. If you don't think the republicans did the exact same thing, you are nuts.

ckone:

Paid to register new (dems) voters primarily in the hood.

ckone probably hasn't heard about the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Or, for that matter, Reconstruction. Uh, ckone... we now allow African-Americans to vote. Feel free to look it up for yourself.

I'm reminded of the Outrage expressed in 2000, when Al Gore's campaign people (gasp!) GAVE RIDES TO THE POLLS to African-Americans from poor neighborhoods. You have to be rather grossly racist to goose up outrage over that!

Perhaps, instead of wailing and crying over the fact that we allow African-Americans (and other swathy peoples) to vote here in America, Republicans ought to try to figure out how to persuade them to vote GOP. It's called democracy.

2010 can't get here fast enough. You know exactly what i mean . Acorn wasn't going oput to suburbia to register voters, my god there might be a republican among them. But in the citys hoods of high minority the racist view was to vote for the black guy. So register them and wrap up an Obamacorn vote.

ckone:

2010 can't get here fast enough. You know exactly what i mean . Acorn wasn't going oput to suburbia to register voters, my god there might be a republican among them. But in the citys hoods of high minority the racist view was to vote for the black guy. So register them and wrap up an Obamacorn vote.

And when it comes to racist views, ckone is an expert.