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To: combjelly who wrote (736589)	9/2/2013 11:58:26 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576206

>> Suffice it to say that the words "Republican" and "integrity" don't belong in the same sentence. You're confusing "corruption" with "scandal". They're two different things, in that scandals are a function of the news media while corruption is a function of people. Scandals may or may not involve corruption. I did note that only a fraction of the Obama scandals were included, whereas "scandals" that weren't really scandals were included under Bush, so the list is immediately suspect. Corruption involves the abuse of one's political power for personal gain (which may include furtherance of political power). Examples of corruption would be Obama's intervention in GM bankruptcy, in which he effectively used his political power to force creditors to give up their interests in favor of labor unions. This may well be the most corrupt act ANY US president has ever been involved in, and it certainly surpassed any of those in our lifetimes. His one week "evolution" on gay marriage, and of course, supporting the political payoffs to convince Democrats to support Obamacare are other examples. Corruption amongst political higher-ups in the Obama administration is just everywhere -- but Eric Holder is clearly the most disgusting of the lot. George Bush would not have tolerated this dishonesty and lying on the part of his AG. You don't find these kinds of things with the Bush administration. There were a few incidents where employees in the Bush administration behaved inappropriately in one way or the other, and you have that in every administration. And you're going to have a lot who come under fire from the media which creates a scandal, when it turns out there was no "there" there (that was very much the case in the Bush administration, as the media hated them and would take insignificant events and blow them out of proportion, the opposite of what they do with Obama).