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Do you really consider the work as a legislator in the last 11 years to be totally irrelevant?
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Considering that I have had a unique intimacy with the workings of state legislatures in my past, I am confident in rendering the judgment that the lower one delves into the strata of American politics, the more corrupt it becomes, simply because there is less visibility into the sausage making.
My years in Chicago were an education in corruption. There is no such thing as a “clean” Chicago politician. Bobama’s years in the Illinois house qualify him for the presidency if one desires a cash & carry executive ala Clintonian pardon selling, MIRV tech sales to China, coalfield sales to Indonesian patrons, etc, etc, etc.
I have a different view, based in the restraint one learns as a young military officer. Having the power to do something, doesn’t make it right. Lawyers, and petty politicians aren’t taught this sort of thing. This is but one of the maws in his education.
