The Audacity: Obama Slams America's Fixation on Wealth and Fame Ahead of Star-Studded Launch Party for $850M Shrine to Himself

Barack Obama wants the American people to stop caring so much about personal wealth and celebrity status. Speaking at a private stakeholder reception for the $850 million Obama Presidential Center, which opens to the public on Friday, the former president complained that "salt-of-the-earth, bedrock people" were being screwed over by nefarious elites consumed by greed and vanity.