I wish we could talk sanely about the Clintons and their long history

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81. The obvious solution is publically funded national campaigns.

There is simply too much easy money in play, and too many affiliated stakeholders stirring the pot to increase their own revenues, for us to ever wean our politicos off the current system of increasingly endless, expensive and hopelessly negative election campaigns.

Look at the recent election in Great Britain, they have a time limit of only a few weeks for political campaigns, there is a ban on paid radio and TV ads, also strict limits on who can make donations and how much, and the parties get about $33 million in public funding.

Maybe term limits would help to break up these powerful, wealthy cliques, but given the makeup of our Supreme Court, who can predict how far they'll let the corruption spread and still rule that bribing the crooks is perfectly legal.