The presidential election is still more than a year-and-a-half away, but it’s not too early for a fresh dose of controversy. The latest wrinkle involves money. (Shocking, isn’t it?)
It seems that a certain junior senator from Illinois made some questionable investments of as much as $100,000 in two small companies that just happened to be owned by two of his political contributors. Actually, Senator Barak Obama didn’t personally deploy the money; his advisor did via a so-called blind trust.
The concept of a blind trust is that it’s designed insulates the investor, in this case a United States Senator, from any repercussions, political or otherwise, that might arise from the investment. Oh, well–so long to that myth. Obama is being questioned, ever so subtly, in the press on the age-old issues of, What did he know and When did he know it?