C'mon, nephy - those Buddhist monks are ancient history! So is changing US policy to allow missile tech to go to China for campaign donations (we don't want to mention accepting foreign money for a campaign is illegal)! And not to mention other non-campaign cash issues, like the book by Louis Freeh telling how the former President basically blackmailed the Saudis into donating to his Presidential library so that the US wouldn't investigate to Kavor towers bombing. And turning 1000 dollars into 100,000 in cattle futures. And....well, I don't want to get off topic here, do I?
I predict a post will be here shortly saying that that was in the past and this is the present, and we can't justify current actions by pointing to things in the past. Those are true, certainly, but it's so much fun to talk about those things that were so much more offensive (at least to me) than funneling domestic money illegally into a campaign.
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