It was the worst, best-kept secret of the 2008 presidential
election cycle, and in the end it tore apart the friendship of John Edwards and
his most trusted aide. John Edwards is on trial for using campaign money for
financing his affair with Rielle Hunter.
COMMENTS:
Then, why shouldn’t Bill Clinton have been tried for using
taxpayer money to get sexual favors from Monica Lewinsky? No, Edwards shouldn’t have done it. But, we’re sexual beings; let’s face it. So, these things are bound to happen and have
happened for time immemorial. Does that
make them right? No. Should there be a criminal trial over this? No. If
you make this a crime, punishable by law for a politician to use campaign money
to have sex, then you have to make it a crime for a president of a publicly
traded corporation to have sex with a mistress.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. Where General Electric is making all of these billions of
dollars and paying absolutely no income taxes, why don’t the stockholders
question what is going on? (Merlin ~
Oliverhurst, CA)
A. It’s not that simple.
If you were a stockholder looking for a dividend, wouldn’t you want the
company to do everything possible to lower its expenses, such as taxes, so they
could pay you a higher dividend? Anyway,
their annual shareholder’s meeting was just interrupted by a group known as the
“99 Percent” movement demanding that GE pay more in taxes. After they got the bum’s rush out the door,
GE bosses started trying to explain that GE Capital had suffered big losses and
that was why their taxes were so low.
And I say, “Bull, every business deserves a big chance to make money and
the country deserves an appropriate share of revenue based on net income.” There
really is a lot of inequity in this issue, but not enough to make me vote for
Obama.
Q. So now, in this never-ending drama, Jimmy Carter says he “wouldn’t
mind” a Romney Presidency. What does
that mean? (Whitney ~ Klamath Falls, OR)
A. It means that he, too, thinks Romney is more of a liberal
than dead-center. We, unfortunately,
have no choice but to say that even if he is left of center, he is to the right
of Obama. Whoopie. Big Whoopie,
Blah.
Q. I heard there’s an illegal immigrant with 35 arrests who
will not be deported? (May ~ Grants Pass, OR)
A. Surprise, he’s Palestinian. But, he’s not going to be
deported; he can continue his life of crime here because… the U.S. does not recognize
Palestine as being a legitimate country, and therefore the guy is not an
illegal alien. Please pass the gray poop
on.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“The hardest thing to understand in the
world is the income tax.” ~ Albert Einstein
TODAY’S VIDEO:
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