Bah. Nothing new here. This stuff has been going on forever. You didn't need the "Citizens United" ruling to enable this. One of my favorite instances involved

Bah. Nothing new here. This stuff has been going on forever. You didn't need the "Citizens United" ruling to enable this. One of my favorite instances involved the inventor of the Internet drinking too much iced tea, back in 1996: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hart101900.asp http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hart101900.asp Gore "lost his memory" some 85 times - 85 times - when he was questioned by the FBI about his role in various fundraising scandals, including "Chinagate," an illegal scheme that raised millions of dollars in campaign-cash from communist Chinese for the Clinton-Gore reelection effort in 1996. Gore claimed that at one pivotal meeting at the White House where illegal fundraising was discussed, he must have missed the illegal parts because he was frequently in the bathroom thanks to drinking too much iced tea. But senior White House officials say the meetings were stopped whenever the president or vice president left, and one of these officials remembers Gore "attentively listening."