And make no mistake. ANY amount of money at ANY point from ANYONE would have EVERYONE howling at the moon. There is no scenario in which OB or any of his ilk would not be offended.

And that's why this shit pisses me off.

My very first comment was me agreeing with your first comment and while it doesn't piss me off, per se, I do find it very silly.

What it comes down to is that our capitalist system handsomely rewards the capitalist lobbyists and capitalist industrialists who want to change the laws, and punishes the socialist bureaucrats and socialist enforcers who carry them out. If governing made a better living than petitioning the government there'd be no tension here... but we're more likely to induct Kapital into the constitution than we are for that to happen. So what we're left with is people howling at the moon that the most powerful man in the world for eight years, the first black president in history, might actually get paid by rich people to talk to them.

I think fundamentally, we're in agreement in a lot of ways, and fundamentally, we're in disagreement in a lot of ways. I'm getting angry though, because I mean, as I said to goobster, while I think people are way overreacting about Obama, I do see where they are coming from, I do think their frustration comes from a valid place, and man, I just want to try and figure out whether accepting $400,000 from the same people he rescued from the problems they created themselves is fucky or not and I keep on getting distracted by all of these dumb side arguments that do very little to address that.