Gonzales gets $30,000 for speech, compares self to Lincoln

Disgraced Constitution skeptic and former Bush-appointed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has it rough in life. He only gets paid $30,000 for making a speech that takes up a whole half-hour of his precious, precious play time.

Gonzales has hit the lecture circuit and makes $30,000 just to give a speech in which he answers pre-approved questions. (The liars who keep claiming there's no income gap between the rich and the poor can shut up now.) In his speech at Washington University in St. Louis, Gonzales compared himself and the Bush regime to Abraham Lincoln. He made this comparison not just once, but again and again. Gonzales portrayed himself as just a misunderstood genius and cried that the real facts about his embarrassing and illegal actions as Attorney General will someday come out.

At the event, Gonzales answered only pre-screened questions. The inane speech (which was marked by boos and jeers) was closed to the media.

Think of all the educational projects and amenities that could have been provided for students for $30,000. Instead the university squandered it by giving it to Alberto Gonzales for this delusional horseshit. The money came straight from activity fees paid by each student.

The speech also drew a demonstration by over 100 people, many dressed in orange jumpsuits (a reference to the Guantanamo Bay death camp). The demonstrators provided a long litany of human rights violations Gonzales presided over.

So while Gonzales gets $30,000 richer by spouting off egotistical propaganda for a half-hour, everyone else gets poorer.

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/20/134835/220;
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/gonzales-lincoln;
http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=140602;
http://publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1230899&sectionID=1)