In an opinion contribution posted on the The Hill, former president Barack Obama has been broiled for charging $400,000 for a speech he gave to a Wall Street firm. The following is a brief extract of that article.
It has now been revealed that former President Barack Obama is receiving a $400,000 fee to give a paid speech to Wall Street trading and investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald. Has he no shame?

Lets agree about one thing regarding Obama: he sure gives great speeches! Remember his speeches about “hope and change” and “change we can believe in” that moved the nation in the 2008 campaign?
What Obama did not include in his 2008 speeches about “change we can believe in” was that, while he was lifting spirits of voters with rousing oratory about change, he was raising a lot of money from big banks and Wall Street firms and planning to repay their support

Obama was never the profoundly transforming change agent he promised to be. He was, instead, a rather conventional old-style politician who gave Kennedy-style speeches without Kennedy-style commitment, uttering platitudes about change while he raised huge money from Wall Street and named Wall Street favorites to key posts in his presidency. Sound familiar?

Shame on Obama for lining his pockets with a $400,000 check paid for a speech to a Wall Street firm. Obama should donate the $400,000 to a fund that helps Syrian children whose suffering was made much worse by his weak and inept policy toward Syria throughout his presidency.

This article was first published in the The Hill