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Originally Posted by charlie g
I get what you're saying. But I would feel the same way if cheney was running instead of clinton. He would not get my vote either. For some naive reason I want my president to be above that. For some reason I just feel like $12mil for one meeting goes a little beyond what an expowerful government employee would make and more in line with buying a future president's favor. Again, I may be really naive and it is ok for someone with POTUS aspirations to be selling their time this way. I think we all know that after Obama ran his course she was next in line. I am sure the Moroccan King had heard there might be a chance someone could talk her into running in 2016.
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So it doesn't bother you that Cheney got paid a lot of money to join Haliburton then stepped down when he became G.W. Bush's Vice President then magically when we invaded Iraq Haliburton was given tons of no-bid contracts to provide services to the military there?