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truedelphi

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3. Our "Elected" Politial Class Members all look out for one another.
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 05:06 PM
Jan 2014

Obama has read the small print in his contract. He must "Look Forward" and not into the past. That includes not hassling any one Fellow Office Holder who is no longer in power but once was.

What I can't tell you is exactly why, but it could be any one of the following, or perhaps some combination?

1) Rule Number One for politicians - if you have gotten into a top spot, it is either because One) you know where the bodies are all buried, or else Two) you have a few bodies of your own buried. Obama possibly falls into Category Two.

2) Rule Two: Someday you and the wife and kids will be packing up and moving from the WH. Do you wanna make at least $ 100,000 per speech in front of a corporate podium, a la Bill Clinton, or do you wanna build houses for humanity like Jimmy Carter did?

3) Rule Three: What Bill Hicks suggested.

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