That's all i'm looking for here is a yes or no answer

Do you believe high level corruption exists within the Bush White House? Yes or No?

Yes

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a question for you.

When was the last Administration that DID NOT have corruption?

BK

But it's not a "belief", it's a fact.  Certainly, Cheney has been directly involved in peddling highly valuable favors and contracts to Halliburton, and other Bush/Cheney benefactors int the Energy industry.  That's why he has fought to keep the transcripts from the White House Energy policy meetings out of the public view.

IMHO, Jimmy Carter. I think its why he succeeded so well at Camp David and Beijing, and ironically why he was so ineffectual in other areas. He's been far more effective as an Elder Statesman than he ever was as President.

They may run the country in a fashion which some don't like, they may seem to close knit for some people's taste, but corruption is a strong word and not one that would apply here.

And my friend, it would be a long philosophical discussion.

In a similar vein, ask yourself why prostitution is illegal in the US. Because everyone makes more money that way.

In another similar vein, ask yourself what drug laws are really about. Protecting monoplies, nothing more.

What is "right" and what is "wrong" depends on how much power one has. For the masses, it's pretty much etched in stone. For the elite, it's a whole different ballgame altogether.

Everyone should be offended by this!  Conservatives and liberals alike!!

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-- Modified on 1/5/2005 7:44:11 AM

There was something that didn't smell right with Kauffman-Broad Homes' Eli Broad and ex-L.A. Mayor Richard Riordans' attempt to pursuade an Occidental college administrator to run for a LAUSD Board seat with a $10 million donation promise.

Will you even read them?

http://www.judicialwatch.org/2221.shtml

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/103004Z.shtml

http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/07/news/companies/halliburton_iraq_con/

http://www.redrat.net/BUSH_WAR/mercenaries/

http://www.usatoday.com/money/energy/2002-01-14-enron.htm

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/enron/index.asp

http://www.thedubyareport.com/enron.html

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1560976128-0

Please, tell me that was sarcasm!

Jimmah has been good at building houses!  There, I said something good about the WORST President and WORST past President in the history of our Country.

else there would be real investigations, rather than being advanced by the likes of Michael Moore and sdstud (though I don't mean to criticize sd's hygiene habits, about which I remain blissfully ignorant).

And the notion that "local school boards are probably integrities' [sic] last stop" isn't paying attention.  If you accepted the same standard that the far Left applies to Republican Administrations --- i.e., corruption defined as advancing the beliefs upon which you ran and were elected --- every politician is corrupt.  And even if you believed that the White House was helping its corporate friends --- a nonsensical proposition, given that Halliburton's prominence in federal contracting predated this Administration --- then local school board's are more corrupt, since most are in the back pocket of teachers' unions.

Especially from you, a man whose head has been buried in the sand (and perhaps elsewhere where the sun doesn't shine) the last 4 years.

And yes, my subject header was 100% sarcasm.