The cover story from the latest Fortune magazine is about 2008 presidential candidates seeking endorsements and campaign contributions from business leaders.
It’s exactly what you’d expect, tales of closed door power meetings and fund raiser dinners. You won’t learn anything new from the story, but it illustrates the second rule of politics: “You’ll never get the money out of politics until you get politics out of money.”1
Translation: wherever governments have the power to regulate economies, shadow markets of influence peddlers and back-scratchers inevitably arise.
- The first rule, according to J.R. Ewing, is: “Never get caught in bed with a dead woman or a live man.”
