Which recent presidential administration's scandals are more scandalous?

[Maddy McCall]

Poll question: Which recent presidential administration's scandals are more scandalous?

Looking at each presidential administration's sum total of scandals, not one scandal in particular...

[bemildred]

1. You really ought to include Iran-Contra. nt

[Maddy McCall]

5. Gotcha!

You're right.

[justinsb]

2. Compared to Bush, Nixon was a saint.

[brainshrub]

3. Bush Co makes Nixon & Regan look like rank armatures.

[etherealtruth]

4. Touche`

[Roland99]

6. I voted Reagan-Iran-Contra assuming you're comparing to the Plame case

Plame case doesn't hold a candle to Iran-Contra.

[Maddy McCall]

8. I'm talking sum total.

Think about the corrupt push for war.

[Roland99]

10. Might want to note that in the poll...but...

Iran-Contra had the incoming Reagan administration FORCE innocent Americans to be held hostage longer than they needed to be in order to make political hay of a release after Reagan's inauguration.

[brainshrub]

9. But at least you could pretend that Iran/Contra was for national security.

Plame was a case of compromising national security in order to silence a critic.

[Independent_Liberal]

7. Much bigger than Watergate! Much bigger than Iran Contra!

I'm telling you, it doesn't get much more corrupt than this.

[RoyGBiv]

11. Nixon, sorta ...

Had a history/poli sci professor, who hated Nixon with a white hot passion by the way, whose lecture one day revolved around Presidential scandals and what they mean in the grand scheme of things.

Much to the shock of those who knew my professor, he said the crimes of the Nixon administration were relatively minor, particularly when contrasted against Iran-Contra. (This was before the Shrub, and we had been discussing this period.) However, he noted that the major impact of the Watergate scandal was that it was the first time the American public had really wrapped its mind around the fact it had been lied to and manipulated. The lasting and negative impact of this was that this same American public and its descendants grew cynical and had come to accept lies from the President as typical, which in turn led to Iran-Contra, while far greater a set of crimes and threats to the Constitution, not resulting in the wholesale tarnishing of an entire administration.

Seen in that light, Nixon's scandals are the most damaging, if not the mose "scandalous."

[two gun sid]

12. At this point I would say Iran-Contra...

but, since a whole lot of the Iran-Contra gang (i.e. Negroponte, Poindexter, Abrahms etc.) are senior members of this administration, I wouldn't be suprised if bushco doesn't surpass that scandal.

[Maddy McCall]

13. Kick

[Catherine Vincent]

14. The Bush II administration is the most corrupt in the history of the US!

[NMMNG]

15. Oh, you forgot to include Clinton/Lewinsky!

I mean, the man got a BJ...A BJ!!!:sarcasm: