Randy, while you were writing your posts, NPR had a fascinating little story by Don Gagne (spelling?) of how G W borrowed $800,000 to buy a share of the Texas Rangers, then paid that off with all the stock options that he got in a loan he got from an oil company that bought his failing oil business, and then he sold his Rangers shares for $16,000,000. Kind of makes Hillary's little pork futures deal kind of pathethic, huh?
But we know that G W never did wrong because the SEC, when G W H Bush was vice president and president, said so. Just because G W's story has changed just this week several times on why those SEC filings were late... My question: if the feds really go after these powerful stock options and accounting criminals, where are we going to get a new president and vice president? I have no guesses on who the Dems will run in 2004, but I suspect strongly that John McCain has been handed his 2004 issues for the GOP primaries on a silver platter. And I also think G W's last futures option is now history. Outside of Reagan the Republicans have not been able to re-elect a president since Nixon and they won't in 2004 either. Thanks for your post. Vince
