>>You're avoiding the 800 lb elephant in the room
>>Why did he give the money, John?
I wasn't there and nor were you. Your prejudice is not a fact.
>>So, what's your point?
>>Lack of evidence?
>>Lack of prosecution?
>>In political cases they mean nothing.
Unless you want McCarthyism, they mean everything. Can you really believe these things?!
>>Something obviously stinks here, John.
I've made the point 3 times that there's nothing so far except people *asking* for favors. I'd imagine lots of people ask favors all the time. So what?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1