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Poker and Politics a Match?
Many people would not even think it is much less the politicians of today who not only try to present themselves as saints, but also try to reduce the gaming industry by refusing to consider poker a game of skill. But they certainly can not erase history, and it would be for some of them to refresh their memories about the good historical relationship between poker and politics.
In a time of controversial enforcement actions against The gaming industry is playing a taboo, a crime in one state, and money-transfer companies are now banning U.S. players for fear of broken and severely punished, as recent Neteller case.
Although some politicians and legal experts question and condemn the recent laws to the point of causing an action brought by attorney Lee Rousso against the state of Washington for turning gaming into a crime that explain most of the people in the Senate and other political parties are enemies of the gaming industry.
The Question is: why now, when it has been in has always been a popular past time in the political arena? Why not keep still, as it always was?
It is a known Fact, to that ex-President and important political figures have tended to spend their leisure time playing golf, poker, drink and party with their peers. What are our current politicians are trying to do with all the banning and censorship? If they say they are ashamed indirectly their political ancestors for their gambling?
Let's refresh their memory. There is a huge list of political figures in poker "black list", including legendary figures such as President Warren Harding and Secretary of State Daniel Webster and more recent figures such as President Nixon and presidential elections, Barack Obama.
After presidential elections records Warren Harding Cabinet Poker "Poker played at least twice a week and once gambled away an entire set of White House china. His advisors were" called " because they joined the president in his poker games. "Other sources even say that" he was an ineffectual and indecisive leader who played poker while his friends plundered the U.S. Treasury. "
President Harry Truman used alcohol combined with poker in his long boat holidays, and it is said, that "while most reporters his main goal was to get some sleep and drink Kentucky bourbon, he also told to pay for hours Poker ($ 500 dollars to give the game). "Some were his favorite speakers Poker Guests Rayburn and Chief Justice Vinson.
Richard Nixon learned poker in World War II play and it is reported that "he was as dedicated player that he once refused a chance to have dinner with Charles Lindbergh, when used in a [poker] game conflict fell. He also won a lot of money and used his profits go to finance his first campaign Congress. "
Secretary of State Daniel Webster, the largest Orator in American politics, "was a famous poker player in his time [....] Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, a notorious player who was Webster's friend, political Allies and popular poker opponents. They played high-limit draw and it was not unusual for the pots to reach thousands of dollars. "
Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is crowned the list, as his penchant for poker is proof that contemporary politics have always gone hand in hand with poker: "When he was a young state was a politician in Illinois, Barack Obama played his cards right. He had the stone face, "said Senator Terry Links, the weekly poker games held in his house. "He would not stay in hands if he does not think he had a chance to win."
There are many other politicians associated with poker, as President Dwight Eisenhower, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Senator Henry Clay, presidential adviser Clark Clifford and Justice Thurgood Marshall to name a few.
Poker is much more to people who reach the upper echelons of success in society as chess is due to the fact that these individuals found linked Poker more intellectually stimulating. Bill Gates, an avid poker player while in school, were once his college roommate that he "believed [Poker] marathon at least expressed as productive and intellectually stimulating as his time spent in class. "
Perhaps the answer lies in pursuing gaming what Radley Balko commented last year in Reason Magazine, "I think the main reason for the change was simply the moral aversion to gambling by its main sponsors instead – Goodlatte, Kyl and Leach – and the desire to impose that moral rectitude of the rest of the country. "
If the current politicians achieve their unfounded moral effort? We can only hope that the American leaders elected in 2008, represented to realize that this policy is to turn their backs political role models, those who built the America of today.
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