I wrote:
It gives the advantage to old or elderly politicians who are have lost of money and who think the Internet is a series of tubes.
I mean they have LOTS of money. That's gotta be a Freudian slip! Old Japanese politicians are forever getting tangled up with financial shenanigans. And they seem to lose track of large sums of money.
For some strange reason suitcases full of money appear at their campaign headquarters. And then -- gosh, who knows why? -- they forget to report the money to the authorities. This happens so often I begin to wonder if these people are suffering from amnesia or Alzheimer's disease.
They seem to have a cavalier attitude toward cold cash. Former P.M. Hatoyama's mother, one of the wealthiest women on earth, gave him $10.4 million in contributions and he never even knew about it! She didn't tell him. The funds were reported as being given by other people, including some dead people. Normally I wouldn't believe that, but who'se going to question an 87-year-old woman who is just trying to lend a helping hand to her son? -- and her other son too, who is a politician in another party. Hilarious!
The Republican running for governor in Georgia also seems to be losing and finding millions of dollars of his own money every few days . . . He is millions in the hole one day and week later they find out he is flush. Where others pay $10 grand, he paid $100 grand for air services . . . to himself, it turns out. It is a circus.
Okay, okay . . . I know that politics are not allowed here but it is hilarious. - Jed
