Anybody Else Notice How This Spitzer Thing...

[SoFlaJet]

is taking all the air out of a potentially big day for Obama? I mean it's sex scandal all day-day on MSNBC. Hardly any mention of the Mississippi primary...it will blunt more bad news for the Clinton campaign-but if it were the other way around it would be all about her new momentum....

[think4yourself]

1. That's OK. A win is a win.

[Breeze54]

4. You won? The GOP won? The Mafia won? NY State?

:shrug:

[SoFlaJet]

5. HUH???

WTF does THAT mean?

[Breeze54]

11. The poster didn't say what a win-win was

so I was asking him what he meant.

What do you mean ... what does that mean?

[SoFlaJet]

12. didn't you ever hear the expression

"a win is a win"? it's a sports vernacular say a football team squeaks out an ugly win after getting their ass kicked all day and then kicks a last second FG to win it-we then say oh well a win is a win and it counts just as much as a blowout in the standings

[Breeze54]

13. Of course I have but

she/he didn't put it in context. Who won?

[spanone]

2. it's fucking insane...chris matthews showing the tabloid covers

some asshole saying this could be money laundering....absolutely fucking insane

[DonP]

9. Maybe not so insane

The reports say that it was the banks that originally contacted the FBI, because of some big and out of the ordinary funds transfers to dummy companies that Spitzer was using to try and put some distance between himself and the hooker ring.

The first instinct of any FBI investigator with a high profile public official moving money through non-existent companies is bribery or other political shenanigans. That's how the FBI got the wiretap warrants they used to pin him down, based on a judge's review of the funds activity. So money laundering isn't that far off as a possible accusation.

That's my guess as to why he hasn't resigned yet. Resignation is a big bargaining chip with the Feds. e.g. "I'll resign and you make these charges go away."

The irony of the deal is Spitzer was a huge fan of wiretaps for investigations when he was AG for NYS.

[Breeze54]

3. It's been non-stop on all the news and talk shows on regular TV today too.

It's starting to get on my nerves as they just keep repeating the same thing, over and over. :grr:

[izzie]

6. I bet it fits in with our 'new' DOJ Bush has up and running.

I did hear some thing about the IRA looking into Obama's church and if I re-call things like that were not done when Bush was getting all these Churches to back him. Me thinks that the DOJ is now just where the GOP wants it. Hold on to your hats the general election should be fun.

[predfan]

7. notice what the stockmarkets doing?

If you don't think there's manipulation throughout the market, look at today. Oil hits a new record, but Spitzer's on the stake. Market up over 300. Go figure.

[tekisui]

8. They also printed a bunch of imaginary money for the banks.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. A more IMPORTANT NEWS is the Admiral Fallon Story

which could lead us to another war.

[Lex]

14. It's all been orchestrated by ROVE!!!11

:shrug: