Chicago politics made it to the federal level, yay

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DominionSeraph

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And a former ambassador just died.

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PokerGuy

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Sadly that's the way it has always been. Politicians are essentially taking money from my pocket and yours as taxpayers and using it to reward their cronies for their contributions to get them elected. Nothing new there.
 

hal2kilo

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This practice has been going on since.. since probably the beginning of politics in this country.

It,s very sad and it has occurred in every administration and every party.

My brother served as attaches at several embassies through out his carreer with our famous intellegence collecting agency. He said without exception that the ambasadors were pathetic political appointee idiots.

Solution - public funding of elections.
 
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schneiderguy

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Solution - public funding of elections.

So instead of rich people having to spend their own money on elections, you want the government to force everyone to give money to rich people so they can run for election.

Brilliant.
 

waggy

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yeah this is nothing new. people buy ambassadorships all the time. good thing they don't have much power.
 

fskimospy

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If you raise enough money, you get to be an ambassador. Qualifications optional.

Is this thread supposed to be backdated a century or two? That's how it has always been.

Amazing, the power of confirmation bias.
 
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This has been going on for a long time and it's not surprising that the moron obama is doing this and his supporters won't call him out.
 
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