Posted on 07/04/2008 11:48:56 PM PDT by Schnucki
I bet the guy didn’t even know.
Another reason to go back to the original voting requirements in the Constitution...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Gee I wonder where he learned bribery? *COUGH* DC
He’ll make a great Senator...
LMAO!
"Fundamentally, it flies in the face of everything that voting is supposed to mean," he said.
This is laughable! Fundamentally, maybe. But realistically, buying and selling votes is politicians main goal in office.
Apparently it’s illegal to sell votes but it’s not illegal to buy them.
then what is to become of the superdelegate who offered to sell his vote?
I just saw another of these the other day, a college-age guy in Georgia offering to sell his vote.
The Dems do this all the time!
I don’t think there is a single senator in DC...who hasn’t sold a vote. In fact....I’d doubt that you could find a single senator who doesn’t sell his vote “weekly”.
I don’t see the issue here. We’ve come to accept the big guys getting paid off routinely....even our most trusted Republican senators...that this lousy effort by a 19-year old college student isn’t even worth mentioning. Then if we stick him in some prison...we end up paying the prison system $20k a year to guard and feed this guy. So just three years of prison life is going to cost you the taxpayer almost $60k in total fees and costs. And don’t forget....he will fight this in court....with public defenders. So the end bill for this game is easily $200k. For $200k, I could buy three good senator votes in DC...so why waste the money on some punk in Minneapolis?
We can all talk of a pure clean America....but thats long gone. We are now fundamentally flawed....and this kid is just another simple reason why things aren’t working right. So lets just pay off the fed DA involved in this case, and help him build up his warchest to run against some Democrat in Arkansas in two years. Thats the sad name to this game.
Correct... Which is why, time and time again, the "briber" goes to jail, while the "bribee" stays in congress (if a dem) or just resigns (if a rep).
A great example is "The Torch," Torrocelli of New Jersey. Eventually, he had to drop his reelection bid, due to the scandal coming out so close to the elections (under coercion by the Clintons), which is why Lautenburg is back in the Senate.
Mark
The big whores don’t like the little whores encroaching on their turf... :)
It is not against Democrat Party rules for super delegates to sell their votes to the highest bidder.
And of course, our politicians buy votes with money from the likes of George Soros, a convicted felon, and that’s legal, too.
So one can see the confusion of this young man that his offer to sell his one measly vote is against the law.
This 19 year old just committed a gaffe, he exposed the truth. We can't have that, bust him (and ignore the politicians behind the curtain).
Although the action is abominable, he offered to sell but didn’t actually sell. For politicians educated in the public school system, that is not the same thing.
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