re: #395 palomino

Just hard for me to contextualize Obama as more or less corrupt than previous presidents, since Nixon anyway.

Bush was supposed to be the end of America. Now Obama is supposed to be that.

no president is ever the end of anything…it all runs together after so many decades…and again, I don’t think BO is corrupt in the traditional sense…the Chicago way is to reward your friends and destroy your rivals….look at how many friends from the old days work for him…the list is substantial, but that’s his privilege, whether they are good for the position or not….look what happened with Bill Richardson for example or J Nap, who I think is a total dunce…politics as usual and I don’t get too shook up about it…and BO is more like Bush than his left wing supporters are comfortable with…LOL