<p>not very important . i mean do people ACTUALLY live there??</p>
<p>People with best selling books make a lot of money. Isn’t that how Obama made a lot of his recent money? Also Bill and Hillary cashed in on the book deal money as well. Not sure how monetarily successful McCain’s book has been for him.</p>
<p>The starting salary for associates at top New York City law firms is about $160,000 a year. Obama could have had the pick of those jobs (and probably a signing bonus as well). When he graduated, back in 1991, the starting salary was already over $80,000. He’d probably be a partner by now, and even junior partners in New York firms are earning a quarter of a mil a year.</p>
<p>“What lawyer ever makes 4 million in a single year?”</p>
<p>John Edwards. In 1997, he and his partner split one-third of a $25 million personal injury award…it would have been even more, but the defendant settled while the jury was considering punitive damages.</p>
<p>Well, the elitist Obama drew 75,000 people today to a park in Oregon to hear him speak! I didn’t know those Portlanders were so hoity-toity.</p>
<p>[Washington</a> Wire - WSJ.com : Obama Holds Huge Rally in Oregon](<a href=“http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/05/18/obama-holds-huge-rally-in-oregon/?mod=WSJBlog]Washington”>http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/05/18/obama-holds-huge-rally-in-oregon/?mod=WSJBlog)</p>
<p>(Clinton drew 17,000.)</p>