Clarification/Follow-up by jackreade on 05/26/06 9:23 pm:
If you read carefully, it reads that quixotic wonders how long Fundamentalist and Evangelical Christians will go in supporting thieving, condescending politicians who are using them for the politicians own financial agendas.

How long? Evildoers mumbling a few Bible verses does not make them either Christian or honest.

Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 05/28/06 10:07 am:
Kenny boy covered all bases .

-"Former Enron officials said an important part of their strategy to win favor with the Gore campaign was a significant increase in the company's donations to Democrats." In 1999 and 2000, the company gave $362,000 in soft-money donations to Democrats.
(Richard L. Berke, "Enron Pursued Plan To Forge Close Ties To Gore Campaign," The New York Times, February 18, 2002)

-"In what one Enron official recalled as a desire to 'have Enron's message become part of the energy and telecom policy of the Gore campaign,' Enron organized a dinner in the private Nest Lounge of the Willard Hotel, two blocks from the White House, that included top Gore and Enron officials as well as executives in the high-tech industry."
(Richard L. Berke, "Enron Pursued Plan To Forge Close Ties To Gore Campaign," The New York Times, February 18, 2002)

- "As Ms. Painter was planning more public interaction between Enron and Gore officials, Enron officials said, Mr. Shapiro worked behind the scenes to hire people close to Mr. Gore. In the summer of 2000, they said, Mr. Shapiro wanted to hire Johnny Hayes, one of Mr. Gore's closest friends and top fund-raisers in Nashville. But Mr. Shapiro could not hire Mr. Hayes because he was already on the Gore campaign's payroll. After the campaign, Enron hired Mr. Hayes as a lobbyist."
(Richard L. Berke, "Enron Pursued Plan To Forge Close Ties To Gore Campaign," The New York Times, February 18, 2002)

-"Records show Enron paid large sums to enlist the lobbying aid of former Tennessee Valley Authority Director Johnny Hayes and another Tennessee friend of former Vice President Al Gore. Enron paid $200,000 to Sideview Partners Inc., a company headed by Mr. Hayes, for lobby work involving TVA earlier this year, according to Mr. Hayes' midyear 2001 lobby activities report." Enron also paid $500,000 to the Nashville law firm of Charles Bone, another longtime Gore friend and fund-raiser. "Also registered to lobby on behalf of Enron this year was former Vice President Gore's former chief of staff, Jack Quinn. Disclosure reports for the first half of 2001 indicate Mr. Quinn's lobbying firm, Quinn, Gillespie $10,000."
(Andy Sher, "Ex-TVA Director, Gore Friend Got Large Sums To Aid Enron," Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga Free Press, December 7, 2001)

- "Several senior Enron officials spent election night at Vice President Gore's headquarters in Nashville."
(Dan Morgan, "Enron Also Courted Democrats," The Washington Post, January 13, 2002)

As you see ;had Gore won in 2000 Enron officials would've been prominent in the Gore WhiteHouse also . Heck ;they practically crafted by themselves Gore's obsessive positions on Global warming . They gave $420,000 just to help to try to get Kyoto passed . Clinton's Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency "often made themselves available for Enron executives to discuss the firm's needs. Btw ;of course they were part of the Energy Task force headed by Cheney . At the time they were major players in the US energy indusrty with remarkable growth during the Clintoon 1990s .

Clarification/Follow-up by ETWolverine on 05/30/06 1:25 pm:
Chou,

>>>Most Christian Evangelicals are religious extremists. <<<

And you know this because you've met most Christian Evangelicals? And having met Lay, you are able to confirm his religious leanings, right?

My father-in-law, who lives in Houston, has actually met the guy and spoken to him for a while (he was trying to raise money fo some charity or other), and HE doesn't have any clue as to his religious beliefs. How can you, who I presume have never met the guy, know about his "religious extremism"?

Elliot