Moaning From from PUSSYPLAR when Smacked by Gandalf Hansen

On 26 Nov 2003 15:15:40 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jose soplar) wrote:

>Bush is going to win by a landslide in 2004. 

Ah, then it would be his first win, wouldn't it stupid?

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The Reagan Years: 

How Soon We Forget Real Corruption Gleeful charges by Republicans 
that Whitewater is comparable to Watergate and that the Clinton 
Administration is more corrupt than any recent administration 
are ludicrous when compared to the actual record of corruption 
in the Reagan-Bush administration and when it is noted that the 
charges against Clinton result from goings-on in Arkansas long 
before he became President. With Reagan, scandals occured while 
he was President. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Haynes 
Johnson's book, "Sleep-Walking Through History: America in 
the Reagan Years" (1991, Doubleday), chronicles the U.S.'s 
fall from dominant world power to struggling debtor nation 
during the Reagan years. Johnson says "two types of problems 
typified the ethical misconduct cases of the Reagan years, 
and both had heavy consequences to citizens everywhere. 
One stemmed from ideology and deregulatory impulses run 
amok; the other, from classic corruption on a grand scale." 
"By the end of his term, 138 administration officials had 
been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject 
of official investigations for official misconduct and/or 
criminal violations. In terms of number of officials 
involved, the record of his administration was the 
worst ever." (P. 184). 

"Reagan's customary response to instances of wrongdoing by aides 
was to criticize those who brought the charges or to blame the 
media that reported them." "Three great scandals stained the 
Reagan record, and they all involved the age-old form of corruption 
formed by the connection between money and politics. What 
distinguished them in the Reagan years was the number of buyers 
and sellers involved, and the amount of money there was to 
be made. The sheer volume of both had multiplied beyond any 
previous measure. Nothing better illustrated the problem 
than a case that connected some of Reagan's closest associates, 
a score of top government officials in several departments 
and agencies,