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(04-01-2021, 12:18 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I completely agree, and over all I don't mind Obama's tenure as POTUS, despite some fundamental differences of opinion.  But when the response is to a quote from Truman about politicians being worth far more when they leave office then when they entered it, citing Trump does not excuse Obama, at least as far as the quote is concerned.  Degree wasn't an issue in the quote, so it wasn't in my comparison.  Hyper partisan people need to be reminded of their hypocrisies, especially when they think they're the ones springing the trap.

(03-31-2021, 08:53 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Oh, I agree.  I just, as always, like to point out to the resident puritans how their people are hardly paragons of virtue themselves.

I don't know how much I agree with that, in this context.  Minimizing the grift of others by pointing out the extremities of Trump can just as easily be seen as minimizing their actions

Is it your position that Obama's 15.8 million in profits from books is "grift"?  One written in 1995?

How are Obama's book royalties "profiting from office" in the sense that Truman complains of? 

Kushner getting Qataris to buy an office building, or the U.S. government using Trump venues, would be censured by Truman. 
So would hiring one's children and one's friend's children. 

Why isn't driving this kind of equivalence "hyperpartisan"?  What "trap" have you sprung by comparing what look like honest earnings duly read from tax forms made public to the Trump mess--campaign money paid to a porn star, government money steered to Trump properties, tax forms witheld etc. https://www.npr.org/2021/01/19/958472500/how-trumps-businesses-benefited-during-his-presidency.