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I hate to keep repeating this, but I really don't care about the nitpicky details of all of this. I care about the fact that our country is in shambles.
Barack Obama said, during the last debate, that nobody's hands are completely clean in politics. God knows, there were plenty of "scandals" about Clinton fund-raising in his elections, not to mention the Chinese contributor to Hillary who turned out to be a fugitive from the law. Fund-raising is hard; rich contributors are not always perfect people; politicians have to deal with it the best they can, which I think both Hillary and Barack have done. BFD. We should have public financing of elections and we should stop forcing people to raise gazillions of dollars to run for president. If all the money that has been blown on ridiculous campaign ads and so on were donated to charity, it would be a nicer world.
So, can we please get back to what matters to us, the people, who don't have any rich contributors in our lives and are trying to scrape by in a rotten economy brought about by a terrible administration that needs to be replaced.
