On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:34:25 -0400, otis_p_driftwood@hotmail.com wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:07:52 -0600, rightwing@nutty.com wrote:
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>>On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:23:20 -0400, otis_p_driftwood@hotmail.com wrote:
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>>>>"individual rights" to promote society, not aggrandizement of
>>>>only the strong and powerful.
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>>>Funny, I don't see that anywhere!! LOL!!
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>>That's because YOU don't get to interpret it, you dumbass.
>
>Oh, and YOU do??
Nope, it isn't me trying to

The long-standing interpretations by the USSC is what you can't accept.
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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,