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To: American Spirit who wrote (98984)	5/26/2007 12:21:13 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Why have the Clintons taken so much money from a guy who heads a company which aids conmen? Why did they invite him to stay overnight at the WH? They don't care where his money comes from. Note that the NY Times itself exposed InfoUSA: As The New York Times reported on Sunday, InfoUSA compiled and sold lists of elderly men and women who would be likely to respond to unscrupulous scams. The company advertised lists such as: "Elderly Opportunity Seekers" - 3.3 million older people "looking for ways to make money "Suffering Seniors" - 4.7 million people with cancer or Alzheimer's disease; "Oldies but Goodies" - 500,000 gamblers over age 55. It described one list: "These people are gullible. They want to believe that their luck can change." Internal e-mails show that InfoUSA employees were aware that they were selling this data to firms under investigation for fraud - but kept on selling the information, even as the scammers used the lists to bilk millions from the elderly.

To: American Spirit who wrote (98984)	5/26/2007 12:29:35 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Poor John Edwards - I've neglected him. Creepy Story of the Day: John Edwards [Andy McCarthy] I'm back from a day in Gomorrah by the Potomac — debating Bruce Fein at Cato re Bush shredding the Constitution, etc. Lots of reading time on Acela. This entry, from the Washington Times' Inside Politics feature (citing TNR's Michael Crowley), merits special mention for making the skin crawl: Bob Shrum, the famed consultant to a string of failed Democratic presidential candidates, including Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, seems determined to embarrass his former client and current presidential hopeful John Edwards in the forthcoming book "No Excuses: Confessions of a Serial Campaigner," the New Republic's Michael Crowley writes at www.tnr.com Mr. Shrum's book "repeatedly portrays Edwards as a hyper-ambitious phony," Mr. Crowley said. For example, Mr. Shrum says Mr. Kerry had qualms about choosing Mr. Edwards to be his presidential running mate in 2004, but grew "even queasier" after Mr. Edwards said he was going to share a story with Mr. Kerry he had never told anyone else — that after his son, Wade, had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home and hugged his body and promised that he would do all he could to make life better for people. "Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before — and with the same preface, that he'd never shared the memory with anyone else. Kerry said he found it chilling, and he decided he couldn't pick Edwards unless he met with him again." Mr. Shrum says that, in the end, Mr. Kerry "wished that he'd never picked Edwards, that he should have gone with his gut" and selected former Rep. Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri. 05/24 08:42 PM corner.nationalreview.com