I'm sure all the conspiracy theorists already have it covered, but "What if Obama was tipped of about the Governor's investigation?"
He must have thought he could have gotten a kick back from Obama because he asked and was pissed when Obama refused. You don't solicit bribes from soneone unless you are pretty sure they will take you up on it.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
