What do you consider the worst political scandal of your lifetime?

Instead of getting angry, just go with this:

 

It's a shame this country has never, ever, ever -- let alone today -- had a president, vice-president, cabinet member, supreme court justice, senator, congressman, federal judge, ceo, corporate hiring director, university admissions officer, police officer, or even a school crossing guard that reflects your status.

You poor, disenfranchised, un-represented, disfavored, repressed tool.

 

You guys seem to have taken my comment wrong. I meant that a white,male,christian,american can't have any wrong done to him. It is a fact don't even deny it. The only thing you can do to a white guy that you will get in trouble for is kill him. What can be said or done to a white guy that the whole liberal media will rise up against the person who wronged the white guy? Nothing.

 

That's an opinion, not a fact.

 

Hey look!!! It's Jesus up on the cross!!

 

Yeah, but there's a big difference. We'd been involved in Vietnam for a decade at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. That just an excuse to escalate our involvement. Bush created our involvement from point zero.

 

Where's my violin? I want to play a sad song.

 

Hmmm have you checked up your ass ?

 

Hi Jesus!...hey, why isn't he waving back?

 

Seriously, how old are you?

 

For shear entertainment value, it's gotta be Monica. No one could have guessed all the ridiculous turn of events and characters. If a book was written with that as a plot, no one would have thought it believable. Every time we thought it was going away, it came back. Stained dresses, secret tapes, secret testimony, bumbling republicans, an "I do what I like so that I like what I do" president and Hilary in the shadows of the stage curtain. OMG, what a ride that was.

And in the end, the American people shut it down with the election results in '98 where the reps learned that they weren't sent to DC to do what they think is the right thing but what we think is the right thing.

 

He's such a snob! It's like he thinks he's God or something.

 

Teapot Dome was before my time but it would have to be at the top of my list, from the history I have studied.

Next would be Watergate.

After that, you would have to add Monica PLUS Iran/Contra and 3 other items of the reader's choice to equal Watergate. That was the biggie!

Rove, even if he did knowingly out Plame, wouldn't come close to Watergate.

 

??? We weren't involved in Iraq for a decade before Bush decided to escalate?

 

We didn't have soldiers dying there!

 

We did in 1991. And Iraq had people dying from our enforcement of the no-flight zones. Bush took things to a different level, but he didn't just pick some random country that we had no existing dispute with.

 

Number 5. Watergate
Number 4. April Glaspie allowing Saddam to invade Kuwait, giving us an excuse to invade
Number 3. Iran-Contra
Number 2. The Iraq invasion
Number 1. The real worst scandal is the one we haven't found out about - the one they got away with. You know there's something out there historians will learn that we have no idea about.

 

Can't be -He was Jewish.

Thank you,I'll be here all week.




On a serious note,what happened to the S&L scandal?It's why I roll on the floor laughing whem I hear what a paragon of virtue John Mc Cain is,and I like the guy.

 

That monica lewinsky thing, but I'm only 16 so anything more exciting I don't really remember

 

Your vote doesn't count. You have to be old enough to remember more than one scandal

 

I remember OJ too, kinda, I'm still not entirely sure what that was about. I didn't know why it was such a big deal because me hearing about someone killing their wife wasn't a shocker since it seemed to happen everyday

 

This is officially the oldest moment of my life.

 

Yeah, right! There's a scandal. Democracy in action. She ran, she was elected. So democracy and democratic values are now a scandal when they don't produce the right result for the right? 'Bout right, I suppose.........

And unlike the idol of the far-right, Santorum, at least she lives in New York. Santorum lives in Virginia, yet he's the junior senator for Pennsylvania. Wonder what the Reeps would be saying if Hilary had moved to Virginia or Arkansas or Illinois AFTER winning her election.

Oh and in answer to the question - Watergate or Iran/Contra. Funny how the worst scandals are usually Republican, huh?