The well-worn cliche is "time heals all wounds," but in politics, the saying often ought to be "money heals all wounds."
On Friday, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who spent years railing against each other, will appear together in Toronto for what is being billed a "conversation."
No one will say how much each will take home, but estimates run as high as $150,000 apiece for the two-hour appearance. Just to be one of the 6,000 people inside the city's convention center costs $250, with VIP tickets at $625 and the sold-out "emerald" section seating going for $2,500 (buyers in those front rows also get a photo with the two presidents).
The event will be only the second appearance by Mr. Bush since leaving office; his first was also in Canada, in Calgary. Mr. Clinton, meanwhile, is an old hand on the speaking tour: He did, after all, haul in $31 million in speaking fees between 2001 and 2005.
Friday's event is being put on by the Power Within, which produces "full-day inspirational, motivational and entertaining events with the power to ignite your spirit!" its Web site says exuberantly. The Toronto-based company is affiliated with self-help guru Tony Robbins, "the nation's foremost authority on the psychology of peak performance," the site says.
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Clinton operation desert FOX dropped thousands of tons of bombs on Baghdad in 1998. G.W. Bush practically bankrupted America militarily. The weapon industry (e.g. Lockheed, Martin, Boeing, Northrop, General Daynamics, Raytheon, Litton Industries, Eaton Systems, United Technology, Fairchild...etc) pay Pentagon officials rewards shortly after leaving office (e.g. Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle and Powell) and sponsor the lecture tours of former presidents and prime ministers (e.g. Aznar and Blair). Politics is a dirty field infested by the crooks. With this in mind, Americans are unshamed for trying teach others their form of manipulated democracy.
Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times
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