If I Was The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, I Would Buy The Next Presidential Election.

[Ikonoklast]

What would it take, a couple, three billion channeled through a mosaic of quite legal and source untraceable shell corporations to make illegal contributions to a candidate of my choosing, and voila! I have my guy in the White House.


Some of the current donations to the right-wing don't even have a name attached, just a PO box number.

Wonder where that money really came from.

[Scuba]

1. How do you know he's not trying to buy this one?

[Ikonoklast]

2. I don't. But I would be really surprised if illegal foreign money *wasn't* ending up

funding some of the Super-PACS.

[Scuba]

3. Does anyone doubt that?

[Ikonoklast]

4. I certainly don't.

I'd be willing to bet that those geniuses on the Roberts Court might not believe it, but it seems they suspend all belief in reality in some of their rulings...like CU.

[Scuba]

5. Just look at the Nat'l Chamber of Commerce. Plenty of frangible foreign money goes right there.

[Ikonoklast]

6. Shhhh! Don't say that out loud!

To say that those red-blooded Murkins can be bought off so easily in order to have legislators 'see things our way' including killing domestic jobs in favor off off-shoring isn't to be spoken of.

[RZM]

7. Allegedly, during the 1968 campaign

The Soviet ambassador to the US approached Humphrey and without expressly offering anything, sort of implied that they wanted him to win. I forget the exact exchange, but the ambassador has said he definitely put out a feeler that Humphrey correctly interpreted as an offer of possible future help. Humphrey indicated thanks but no thanks.