| That Guy said: Where's the pressure coming from? The Blagojevich guy didn't accept bribes because he was poor. He was soliticing bribes because he was a douchebag. That's apples to oranges. |
No, Blagojevich was soliciting bribes because he wanted money. He even specificaly requested a high paying consulting job for his wife.
Even St. Obama appears to have used his position to get a sweetheart deal on that Mansion he bought from his convicted felon friend.
But I suppose that's just typical Illinois politics.
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
