...if Time magazine claims it is.
According to Time, it seems that there are
some photos of President Bush with Jack Abramoff.
Lets have some fun with this shall we.
First of all the pictures are not in Times possession. They merely claim to have seen them. Sounds kind of fishy to me. Supposedly, source did not want to give them up. I wonder who this source is. Apparently it is someone with a monumental amount of money. I am sure that Time offered them ever dime they had in order to get these pictures.
The photos were taken when Abramoff, Texas Indian leaders, and state legislators visited the White House. The president, or any politician, attend hundreds of these types of events a year. They stand for lots of photos with people they do not know. I once got my picture taken with John Travolta. That doesn't mean I can do the Hussle.
There are some very telling parts of the article. First of all, it says that Abramoff was frozen out of White House meetings in 2002 because aides were suspicious of his funding connections and he wanted to discuss things that were not on their agenda.
Of course this quote is the best: "No evidence has emerged that the Bush Administration has done anything for the Kickapoo at Abramoff's behest."
Therefore this seems to be much ado about nothing. Harry Reid, who also took money from Abramoff, is demanding details on White House connections with Abramoff. If I was the White House I would reply with "I'll show you mine, if you show me yours."
The point is that a simple connection to Abramoff does not make you guilty of corruption. The Left has yet to show any evidence that Abramoff unduly influenced Mr. DeLay, but to the Left, guilt by association is the order of the day. Mr. DeLay wasn't even mentioned in Mr. Abramoff's plea deal.
The Dims have jumped on this for a very good reason. It is not, as some have suggested, that they have no agenda. It is because they can not honestly tell the American people what their agenda is. They want the people to throw out the Republicans but not to have even a vague idea about what they want to do. This is because the American people do not support an agenda that will redistribute income, race-bait, remove God from our public discourse, and weaken American resolve in the war against the nihilistic animals that seek to destroy us.
Oh yeah and they all buddy up to Castro, which makes me dislike them even more.
