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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (267589)	6/27/2002 10:58:41 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

No, I said they learned how to GET AWAY with it from Clinton. Anytime we stand up and applaud crimes, the potential criminals start to think. The people who supported Clinton through his "persecution" ARE 100% responsible for the ethics problems of today. What's worse, the attention is being given only to private sector ethics problems (a real problem, for sure, as Bush will address in his Fourth of July speech), and still ignoring the exponentially greater crimes in the public sector. The crimes that are coming to light in business are being perpetrated by the usual small percentage of unworthy executives, and similar types will always be around to do some damage. Not so with the public sector, where crime is a way of life, generally accepted, and blessed by our elected officials. One benefit of the coming (and much-needed) reform of corporate disclosure and governance is that it will lead to a long-overdue exposure of the common, daily obscenities taking place in government today. When you stop seeing government crime being described as "controversial" and start seeing it described as "outrageous", you can be assured that the other much-needed reform is in progress...

To: Cogito who wrote (267589)	6/27/2002 11:06:42 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Gore was safer in Saigon that you were at home, and any task he had would have been taken care of had he not been in the mood. The rest of his career was spent sucking the blood of taxpayers, first the ones of Tennesee, then the nation in general. He would have made propaganda hay of the coming reforms and they would fail. Bush knows the territory. Bush has had to meet payrolls. He won't let many executives deserving of punishment get away. It's best, however, that you numbskill liberals keep underestimating him. It will continue to teach you a lesson, while giving the public a much-needed lesson about you...

To: Cogito who wrote (267589)	6/27/2002 11:17:55 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

WorldCom started cooking their books during the Clinton years, when hutzpah was king, and anything could be defended in a lap dog press by simply attacking whistleblowers and prosecutors personally. Where do you think they got the idea that they could capitalize their expenses and survive any public exposure? Global Crossing juiced in Tony McAuliffe for $15 mil, not to curry influence with a future administration, but to cement relationship with a political hack who represented those who seemed so able to make scandal ignorable by a gullible public. Global Crossing must have been shocked when the masterpiece of this era of corruption-the attempted election theft of 2000-failed, and the punchbowl got swept away...