You are right on mark!
Bravo!
I also enjoyed Hugh Downs’ thread above.
— Jane
What this indicates is that as they increased their political muscle after his now famous speech at the DNC in 2004 the Obama's latched onto "Uncle Sam's breast" and started feeding on government "tax milk."
Her salary was doubled, and the hospital receives over one million dollars in earmarks; his home loan receives preferential treatment, and once it does he then in return votes in favor of the home loan bailout bill… it is a tit for tat game they are playing... and it is WRONG!
Absolutely nailed it.
Good stuff. Two comments — one is perceptual, the other is informational.
First, I think the reason Michelle credits affirmative action is because she thinks it really did help her. Read her thesis. This is not the work of a major scholar.
Second, Hillary’s $100,000 was not the result of a stock deal. It was the result of commodities trading, except it wasn’t really trading. The only explanation for her success is that she and the Tyson VP, Blair, had a deal. They used a broker, with the great nickname of “Red” Bone (Bone was his last name) who was later kicked out of the business for allocating trades. That is the key. In a real account, you make a decision to buy or sell, and it goes to the exchange, and you get your loss or gain. When trade allocation occurs, the trades never make it to the exchange, or if they do, the identity of the tickets is lost. The broker decides who wins or loses. Blair probably said to “Red” something like, “Me and the little lady is going to do some trading, and her account is going to go up.” Curiously, her account went up almost without any declines from $1000 to $100,000, at which point she closed it. Sounds like a nice round-number bribe to me.
When you look at the probabilities of her trading record being real, and the fact that she traded with huge margin (i.e., a tiny opening deposit), and that these accounts are marked to market every day, there is no other explanation. Incidentally, the records at REFCO, the broker, were lost by the time anyone cared about this.
That, and the Billy Dale Travelgate affair, were all I needed to irrevocably make up my mind about the Clintons.