This had to hurt. The Clinton campaign has given up a large chunk of money back to donators linked to a convicted fraudster. 30 years ago, this probably would have been brushed under the rug, but thanks to such a reactive and pervasive media system, everyone knew about the issue overnight.
In doing a little research on this, it is interesting to learn that Mitt Romney also has connections to campaign fundraisers who have been charged with fraud, but its thanks to that same “balanced” media engine that the word didn’t get spread. Here is my source for this information:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200709010002
Personally, I believe that Mitt Romney is an upstanding guy, but I’m not so sure about Hilary. I’m impressed with them both for their amazing accomplishments, but in many ways both of the Clintons seem to too calm, cool, and collected for me to believe its not contrived. Mitt on the other hand, while he does a good job in presenting himself as a clean, cut, responsible individual, occasionally puts his foot in his mouth when trying to say the right thing. (See Romney’s speech in NH about health care.)
I do have my complaints about Romney. Here in Massachusetts, our state transit system is a serious mess, and the big dig project which occurred under his watch is still chock full of problems. Granted, he fought tooth and nail with the Mass Turnpike Authority who in my admittedly uninformed opinion is more responsible for the big dig problems. To be more specific, my complain about Romney is that he left his post during his second term to prepare for his current run for office.
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