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...the Clintons were selling the White House! While wholesale fraud of billions of dollars was occurring, there was dead silence here. Holy f**k Billy bob is STILL selling his presidency long after he left and people are pounding their keyboard over an $8 charge for a document in some out of the way place?!?!?! Wow, just wow.

Well to be fair about it, Clinton isn't the only one who is selling the White House but they are the obvious top front runners for selling out.

Well, here comes the democratic shills and Clinton lovers to mod me down. Oh well, one can bring up the truth, and it hurts, but a lot of people just seem to put their fingers in their ears and yell LA LA LA CANT WAIT TO SEE A DEMOCRAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE LA LA LA regardless of getting the same results as Bush for the last eight years...

who needs the excuse :)
but here's a little enemy action,
linking Bush and Novell
grab the tin foil hats and lets conspiracy theorize.

You must be blissfully unaware of the past 5-6 years of administration appointees. I almost envy you. Nearly ALL appointees over any sort of regulatory watchdog, scientific fact-finding, or pork-laden government spending bureau of the government has been an industry lobbyist of some sort who is assured to make sure that said industry (which donates lots of money to the Republicans) will make out like a bandit (literally) on the taxpayer's dime or taint and all evidence that gets in the way of said industry's profits.

Read more here:
Bush Has Appointed Over 100 Lobbyists as 'Regulators'
WhiteHouseForSale.org | Contributors and Paybacks Articles
Evidence that this has been a pattern of behavior as far back as when he was governor.
Some info on two of the officials reviewing the Dubai Ports World deal
An even longer list of crony appointees

The Bush administration is one of the more shameful examples of cronyism in modern US history. The term "conflict of interest" doesn't begin to cover it. Then, when you can't find a person with experience as an industry shill, you can always go to political advocates with no experience in the field (but solid Bush support):

Michael Brown's two political appointees deputees in FEMA
A petition for Bush to make political appointments with a list of 6 good examples
The Hertiage Foundation even endorsed making political appointees over experienced civil servants in 2001! ...No really, 7 ridiculous arguments straight from the horse's mouth! (How's FEMA workin' out there, HF?)
Why, just look how many Heritage Foundation flacks are now in the administration.

Any wonder why the DHS hasn't done hardly anything useful, why FEMA had someone with no emergency relief experience installed as it's head, why scientists are abandoning NASA, the EPA, the CDC, etc. in droves, and why hundreds of IRS agents that audit capital gains and estate taxes have been downsized? It's government with the wheels taken off -- oriented explicitly to do nothing but enrich special interests by people who have publicly stated that that's all they believe the government exists to do in the first place.

What, you didn't think they meant that they'd try to STOP it when they said that, did you? Yeah, I was fooled too, but not anymore. It's time we get people back in power who believe that the government is meant to serve the people. People who believe that it's part of the solution and not part of the problem. Otherwise, as we've seen, the temptation to just exploit "the problem" is just too much.

Oh please, don't even tell me that Bush rigged the 2004 election

Nowhere in my post did I say Bush rigged the 2004 election. If you came up that in my post then you read wrong.

Do you really think that the CEO got on the company PA and announced that they were to make all of their voting machines biased toward Bush?

One of the largest manufacturers of DRE voting systems is Diebold Election Systems, whose parent company also manufactures ATMs. Diebold's then-CEO, Walden O'Dell, had a distinct conflict of interest since he was a vocal George W. Bush supporter; he made a serious public relations blunder when he pledged in a Republican fundraising letter last year that he was "committed" to delivering the electoral votes of his home state of Ohio to President Bush.[1]

Notice the date for this, it's more than a year before the election:

Ghost in the Machine

Posted on 08-28-2003 11:35 AM EDT
A C.E.O. whose company is trying to sell computerized voting machines to Ohio recently wrote a letter to Republicans saying he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." According to the Plain Dealer, the letter from Walden O'Dell of Diebold, Inc., has exacerbated questions about the procurement process for Ohio's balloting system. The process is under a temporary restraining order pending a decision in a suit filed by a rival.

The CEO of Diebold is a fundraiser for Bush & Co?

Well, if it was a typical web page, then I'd say the innovative part is to drive up hits so that the high apparent traffic would enable the site maintainers to charge their sponsors more money.

But in this case, the GOP already has fully-functional mechanisms for getting their sponsors to contribute money; now there are Super Rangers if you round up an extra US$300K.

If you're a less wealthy Republican and can't raise that kind of money you can help out the cause by garnering signatures to help get Ralph Nader on the ballot, particularly in swing states.

Another good reason not to buy Microsoft products... They give your money to try and prevent you from using anything else than Windows.

The site is sponsored by a group called Public Citzen, a 30 year old organization established with Ralph Nader that among other tracks the funding of all canidates, regardless of party:

Microsoft is on the list of contributors to the Bush reelection campaign.

Steve

Wrong Thing 1: Wally O'Dell, the company's chief executive, is a Republican fundraiser. He writes letters to wealthy Bush contributors vowing to "deliver" his state's electoral votes to the Bush campaign. He hosts campaign meetings at his house. He's also a member of Bush's "Rangers and Pioneers" club (each member of whom must contribute at least $100,000 to the 2004 re-election campaign).

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Wrong Thing 4: Diebold points out that the software is inspected and tested by election officials before it's certified. There's only one problem: Diebold engineers can slip in and make changes to the software even AFTER it's been certified.

Worse, they do exactly that. A Wired article quoted a Diebold engineer as saying that his team made no fewer than three rounds of software changes to the machines in Georgia's 2002 election for governor--after the machines had been certified but before the election began. (That election "ended in a major upset that defied all polls and put a Republican in the governor's seat for the first time in more than 130 years.")