How'd he make the money? Charity gives power, too.
By being a ruthless - but generally ethical - business person. There's a world of difference between the kind of power Bill Gates had and the kind of power Mitt Romney has, a world of difference between the long-term impacts of how they got the power, and a world of difference in how they use it.
Also, another one: Barack Obama, a greedy fuck? Really? He was upper middle class all the way, but he could hardly be called greedy. Ambitious, yes, but ambition is not greed and ambition is not evil. Greed is evil.
Actually, the so called 'Fast and Furious' thing turns out to be a lie. It never happened.
Not for nothing, but Wikipedia (I know) says that the ATF was running the kind of stings that caused the scandal on and off from 2006-2011. Five years, give or take. There was no movement on the cases the earlier operations until Obama took office. No matter what, these stings were cluster fucks on the part of the ATF. Accidentally allowing hundreds of guns end up in the hands of the Mexican drug cartels isn't
that much better than doing it on purpose.