T. Paine

Has anyone here ever considered that all of the "book deals" that these politicos do after leaving office is just new age money laundering? I thought about this for a while and I couldn't come up with a better way of legitimizing payoffs than book deals. That's why they are all ghost-written; it's total BS. I need some more money; I know, I think I have an idea for another book. Think about it. You can write any brain drizzle and if someone questions the book's value they just say, "Oh well, you apparently don't share the views of Dear Leader."

There doesn't have to be any real value associated with the scam. Didn't Clinton's book have huge sales figures overseas where it's harder to track whether the books actually moved over the counter? I think somewhere in the Atlantic there's a reef composed of these "books."

Try and think of a better way to launder millions of dollars of payoffs. I can't think of one. Do the math. The book "retails" for $30 to $40 and costs a couple of bucks to print. The graft travels in the form of book purchases. 90% of the money gets through to the publisher/launderer. It beats the hell out of faking commodities trades.