Jeff Morris wrote:

John Deere wrote:

Like I said, only zealots, kooks, and mouthbreathers believe
this "Cheney
is a crook" stuff. Cheney and Bush are squeaky clean, and it drives the
left nuts.


"Squeaky clean"? Hardly. Bush was never cleared of his insider trading
charges.

"Not Cleared" is boilerplate SEC language for any investigation that can't
find anything to charge the target with. No legal process ever declares
anyone "innocent." That's for God to decide. Most voters don't realize
that, so that's why the phrase "not cleared" gets repeated over and over
again by Bush-hating crowd.

The Harkin "insider trading" case, aside from the political pressure (on
the SEC) by Texas Democrats to get Bush, was very hard to make, since
Harkin stock sold at double the price just a year after Bush sold it all
(to buy the baseball team.) If Bush had held on to it for just another
year, he would have gotten twice the price. Inside traders usually sell at
the top, and not halfway up. I guess you'd say Bush was just too dumb to do
it right.