TJ Wrote:
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> Of course, Boat loads of money for a boring dinner
> speech full of partisan BS! Why Not!
>
> Even from someone who's words never meant what
> they actually mean, the definition of which are
> variable on the fly as needed, and who's words the
> payers couldn't have cared less about in the first
> place. So what is surprising here - That is
> exactly how it is always done.
>
> Money laundering I mean. Get paid hundreds of
> thousands by all sorts of sleezy corporate
> bigwhigs and foreign dignitaries begging favors;
> in return for you just showing up for several
> minutes and babbling a few meaningless words. Yeah
> - Right!
>
> Nobody's time is worth that much. So why do they
> pay? Well Duh - Double Duh! The procedure
> provides cover in case someone asks embarrassing
> questions. But they ain't paying for the speech
> - they are paying for the special favors that only
> a government officer can give. And "Quid" has
> followed "Quo" so frickin regularly that the
> public has become almost NUMB to it. It ain't just
> a "revolving door" - It is a blast furnace
> blower!
>
> This also directly explains why the private email
> server that would inevitably carry classified
> material (how could it have avoided that), and all
> the lies to Congress and the Watergate style gaps
> in the e-mail audit trail.
>
> It is simple, anything that passes through an
> official government e-mail server as required, is
> subject to "legal discovery", not to mention
> regular government audit. But then just how is all
> that "quid pro quo" supposed to happen out in the
> light of day like that? Hence the private
> server, with all its risk to national security;
> and all the e-mails illegally deleted while under
> Congressional subpoena.
>
> Nixon resigned - he apparently had more honor!

I was once considered a progressive. And yes Nixon had mor honor. But if the left had not succeeded in removing him from tne presidency. My beloved peoples republic would have never invaded South Vietnam nor have been successful. Afterall We thought he was a madman and a loose cannon hellbent on nucler destruction