George W. Bush often spoke about the disparities in how the government treated different groups of people, especially students that our system assumed could never succeed. These students, Bush said, suffered from “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”Well, in this election cycle, the American body politic has been afflicted with the soft corruption of low expectations — and it’s getting worse.Take, for instance, the reaction to the revelations about the Clinton Foundation, its potential financial connections to business conducted by the State Department, and the personal enrichment of Bill Clinton by that nexus. Author Peter Schweizer details a number of these “coincidences” in his book Clinton Cash, but the gravest so far concern the sale of uranium assets to Russian interests.Schweizer notes that the former president’s speaking fees skyrocketed when Hillary Clinton became secretary of state. Eleven of his $500,000-per-speech paydays came after 2009, during her tenure at the State Department, including one in Russia for a speech funded by an investment bank with ties to Vladimir Putin. The New York Times’ Jo Becker and Mike McIntire reported that the bank paying for Bill Clinton’s half-million-dollar speech also backed the acquisition of Uranium One by Rosatom, a Russian energy group with ties to Putin.
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