re: So if your company were going to drop $500K for a guest speaker

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I won't disagree with that, but to pay a politician that amount of money is, IMO, legal bribery.

Take HRC for example. She wasn't paid for her business insight. She was paid to gain favor and political points. It is basically lobbying.

You could argue that I have no evidence of that, but let's be realistic. The simplist answer is usually the correct one.

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I don't doubt there was some expectation of gaining access....I was in Las Vegas recently and Eric Rhett (the frickhead) was at a sports memorabilia shop signing autographs....the people paying for that signature had expectations of gaining access to Rhett that they would have never had before....but all Rhett did was pretend to be accessible...and everyone was satisfied with the deal and most knew going in what it was...a few, one would assume, might have expected it to turn into a lifelong friendship where you exchange Christmas cards and what not but most knew what it was. I think that is all the went on with Clinton....


Here is the thing, though....it is possible that some of those Rhett fans had an impact on Rhett, an impact that their small payment afforded....maybe they relayed a story which resonated with Rhett and he had a different POV or something....and that could very well happen with Clinton...but that is merely humanity....it can't be legislated unless you say that ex=presidents simply can't interact with people in any manner ever again....