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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (193736)	7/13/2012 1:08:13 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 541046

Maybe all those Mass. Ethics Commission forms were forged by the guy who made Obama's birth cert.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (193736)	7/13/2012 1:11:49 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 541046

If Romney was involved with decisions at Bain after 99 - David Gergen will be called to the mat. Which may well happen, Steve. There's a Huffington story making the rounds today--I haven't read it yet so don't have the url but will have it later this afternoon--that Romney swore, publicly, in 2003 that he had been involved with Bain all along because he needed to establish Mass residency for his gubernatorial run. This part of the story now fits with "Romney will say anything" meme.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (193736)	7/13/2012 7:21:09 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541046

Seems to me the takeaway will be whether the skills to skirt the law, push the envelope of legality, lie cheat and sometimes steal, you know corporate skills, and in so doing create obscene wealth for yourself, are what Americans admire so much that they will elect a Gordon Gecko clone for president If we as a nation are that jaded, and impressed by one who can always get more out of an enterprise than what is put in, the definition of profit; and seriously believe that such abilities can be marshaled to advantage in somehow running a nation for the benefit of all its members, we deserve to be on the downside of history That, coupled with the Citizens United travesty, demonstrates a level of national acceptance of corruption that is startling and is unsustainable Not everyone can be a successful pig, and we will certainly destroy our country if we continue to tolerate and enable those whose ethics favor such behaviour