From the AP:
President Bush's popularity has tanked, but boy can he still bring in the cash.
He's raked in close to a billion dollars, the political fundraiser in chief, during his White House tenure.
In all, Bush has personally raised more than $968 million for the Republican Party, GOP candidates and his own re-election campaign and inauguration during his two terms in office. And he's not finished.
He's now lost a big part of the national spotlight to presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama, but he remains a formidable force on the fundraising circuit, mostly at private affairs closed to the media. His total so far this year is roughly $70 million.
Whenever I hear that the "American people" are "smart", "not easily fooled", or that we "can see through" lies, I cough, then I laugh, and I again read stories such as these.
Ka-CHING!
I think we are bought, sold, lied to, and that we are supreme suckers for the ruse.
I'm just a cynical optimist tucked 'way in a hesitant pessimist's bad-ass, thrift-store duster.
I walk two hours every day--stopping to talk with everyone--invariably shuffling home alone, though, and wondering why a poor man votes against himself.
We aren't "smart", we are certainly "easily fooled", and most of us couldn't "see through" a lie, even if we had a fucking X-Ray detector.
This is our country.
Jesus H. Christ.
(Allah, Buddah, and Tom Cruise, too...)
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