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X ` Man[_3_]

On 7/26/12 7:12 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:57:17 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

On 7/25/12 12:52 PM, wrote:
On 25 Jul 2012 00:25:10 GMT, x'man wrote:

wrote:

Maryland has had more than it's share of corrupt leaders too.
Agnew ran on a reform ticket, replacing a Baltimore crook who was
worse than him.

Agnew was a piker compared to Scott.

Short memory I guess

Scott's company was *fined* a half billion dollars. No one knows
precisely how many billions his companies stole. Agnew was a piker
compared to Scott.

It depends on whether you consider political corruption worse than
shady business practices.
Nixon wasn't accused of taking anything of any real monetary value yet
I bet you think he was a criminal.

Nixon engaged in some activities that were against the law, and that
makes him a "criminal," but I think those activities were more related
to his personality defects than any desire to be a lawbreaker. Nixon was
a strange man in many regards, but all in all, I think he was a better
president than, say, Reagan or Bush II, both of whom engaged in far more
serious criminal activities and did the country far more harm. I'm
referring, of course, to Reagan's "unproven" role in the Iran-Contra
affair and his fiscal irresponsibility, and Bush's lying us into two
unnecessary wars.