POW! NYT Slams Mitt

[kpete]

August 6, 2012, 12:56 AM558
Embracing Sheldon Adelson
By THOMAS B. EDSAL


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So what was this ever-so-guarded, moralistic (“I want to clean up the moral pollution on TV and the Internet”) politician doing at a $50,000-a-couple fundraiser in Jerusalem with Sheldon G. Adelson — proprietor of one of the largest, if not the largest, gambling and casino operations in the world — seated in the honored position at his side?

Adelson and his company are under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice on allegations of foreign bribery. In addition, the United States Attorney’s office in Los Angeles is investigating whether Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corporation failed to alert authorities to millions of dollars transferred to casinos in violation of money-laundering laws, the Wall Street Journal reported on August 4.

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There is a succinct answer to the question of why Romney would take the risk of closely associating himself with the immensely controversial Adelson: 10 million dollars — the amount Adelson and his wife have contributed to the super Pac supporting Romney, Restore Our Future.

The Adelsons are the largest donors to the Romney PAC. They have providing just over 12 percent of the $82.2 million Restore Our Future has raised so far

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What Mormons Believe, an unofficial web site explicating the positions of the Church declares:
http://whatmormonsbelieve.org/mormons_gambling.html

The Mormon Church has always opposed gambling in every form, including government-sponsored lotteries. Mormon prophets and leaders have counseled the members over time, to avoid gambling of any type. Doing so, leads one away from righteousness and into the hands of Satan. The Mormon belief is that it is an addictive behavior and leads only to destructive habits and practices. It undermines the value of work and motivates one to think that they can get something for nothing. In time, the gambler will deny themselves, as well as their family the basic needs of life. They will oft times steal from others to finance their addiction, which in turn leads to stealing, robbery, etc.[/div]

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http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/embracing-sheldon-adelson/

[dballance]

1. Ah, Yes. Romney is truly Mr. Say Anything, Do Anything to get elected.

No spine and certainly no real principles one can detect. Just self-serving, egomaniacal desire to win the one last title and race he hasn't won. CEO of the free world as President of the USA.

Why is it I think Mitt has daddy issues and/or his penis must be a "inney?"

[iemitsu]

7. i think you meant to say,

the one last title and race he hasn't bought.
mitt does not have a "winning" personality.

[dballance]

11. You could be right /eom

[patrice]

10. "free world"??? I'd laugh if I weren't crying. What clearer evidence of SLAVERS, than gambling.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. "The Mormon church has always opposed gambling"...

but individual Mormons have never been averse to making a buck off of it. See for instance Howard Hughes hiring Mormons to run his Vegas casinos.

[bayareaboy]

5. I know about how Howie hired lots of LDS folks ...

But after seeing Mr. Mitt unless Hughes could take deal with the flip-flop, well. I got to think that if the same thing happened today Hughes might not do the same.

I also wonder if those same LDS folks who also worked for Hughes, as I heard invested in Bain and some lost a lot of money and might have mentioned to Harry Reid about Mr. Mitt in Temple.

[truebluegreen]

3. That's what they do

Mormons aren't averse to making money off of anything; it is what they do. After all, material success is a sign of blessedness and if a man accumulates enough wealth in this life, he gets to be god of his own planet in the next. I don't doubt that that's where Mittens thinks he's headed.

edited for spelling

[Berlum]

4. Republican Family Skank Values

Few decent Americans are fooled. We all see how degraded and perverted Republican's so-called "family values" are. That is why Republicans deserve and get no respect: their scuzzbucket skanky hypocritical bullshit "values."

[patrice]

9. Absolute PROOF positive of class warfare. nt

[L0oniX]

6. But when Wallstreet gambles its ok.

[patrice]

8. The same Republican destroy-government-by-over-extending-it, CLASS-WARFARE, tactic applied to

lower-cla$$ wallets.

I know a now deceased attorney who made a fantastic living out of gambling bankruptcies. People need to see some figures on the depredations of gambling.

What more perfect proof of class-warfare does anyone need than Adelson the gambling pusher financing Republicans?