Poll: Rate the Worst Scandal

[there4eyeM]

Much worse things didn't even become 'scandals'. That is the most scandalous thing about America and its politics.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Outside of lieing I don't think Nixon or Clinton deserved to be Impeached. Obama does enough lying for the both of them.

What is serious is letting our men die and not standing up for our first amendment.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Iran/Contra along with Reagan creating the Taliban that later attacked us on 9/11

Sadly, we were fighting the Soviets. Not everything is done with much thought in them.

 

[rdean]

Outside of lieing I don't think Nixon or Clinton deserved to be Impeached. Obama does enough lying for the both of them.

What is serious is letting our men die and not standing up for our first amendment.

What has Obama lied about?

 

[rdean]

Iran/Contra along with Reagan creating the Taliban that later attacked us on 9/11

Sadly, we were fighting the solivet. Not everything is done with much thought in them.

solivet?

 

[jillian]

Again, Benghazi isn’t a ‘scandal.’

No. It isn't. It's just rightwingnut faux rage

 

[ScienceRocks]

This nation has done a lot of stupid shit in war. FDR sided with Stalin.

 

[Sallow]

Iran/Contra along with Reagan creating the Taliban that later attacked us on 9/11

For quite some time, Osama Bin Laden was a hero to conservatives.

Who knows..maybe he still is..

 

[ScienceRocks]

Seriously, you call not doing anything for 7 hours and bowing in front of the islamic world. Nothing? WOW.

 

[Sallow]

This nation has done a lot of stupid shit in war. FDR sided with Stalin.

You got that backwards.

And good thing too..because Russia did a good deal of the fighting.

 

[mudwhistle]

Which of the following scandals involved the greatest Presidential culpability?

How far back we going? Grant had a big one. Then there was Teapot Dome, Watergate, Iran-contra. Funny how they were all Republican scandals. The best they could get on the Dems were Kennedy's and Clinton's extra-curricular activities. Hardly on a par with the way the Reps carried on!

All of the Democrap scandals get swept under the rug eventually.

Chappaquiddick
Whitewater Billing
Barney Franks' scandals
Sandy Berger's Docs in Socks
Weinergate
Eliot Spitzer
Jack Murtha and Abscam
Gary Studds molestation scandal
Marion Barry coke sting
Jerry Springer prostitution

 

[ScienceRocks]

Iran/Contra along with Reagan creating the Taliban that later attacked us on 9/11

For quite some time, Osama Bin Laden was a hero to conservatives.

Who knows..maybe he still is..

Well,

We were fighting the Soviet union and in war we do stupid things. Of course the Soviet union is your hero.

 

[Black_Label]

Iran/Contra along with Reagan creating the Taliban that later attacked us on 9/11

For quite some time, Osama Bin Laden was a hero to conservatives.

Who knows..maybe he still is..

Likely. If it wasn't for ol' ronnie and the GOP's bloodlust and warmongering, today's middle east turmoil and 9/11 never would have happened.

Thanks GOP!

 

[ScienceRocks]

Iran/Contra along with Reagan creating the Taliban that later attacked us on 9/11

For quite some time, Osama Bin Laden was a hero to conservatives.

Who knows..maybe he still is..

Likely. If it wasn't for ol' ronnie and the GOP's bloodlust and warmongering, today's middle east turmoil and 9/11 never would have happened.

Thanks GOP!

A hole nother box of shit likely would of.

 

[freedombecki]

I could care less how much toukie Kennedy or Clinton got...

Clinton is damaged because he lied under oath abut it during a deposition...
That used to be taken seriously.... I think it's called perjury.

The Libs seem to have selective memory about that.
Just as they do the Iraq war when the Democrat party gave Bush the all clear to invade Iraq...

Oh bullshit.

Disbarment is not bullshit, imho. It's the drip-drip-dripping against morality in probity, absence of compassion to the point of asocial fixation, and disrespect for the constitution including his oath of office being violated.

Behavior has consequences.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Reagan's fix of the Iran-Contra issue will stain his presidency forever in the history books.

 

[Black_Label]

Reagan's fix of the Iran-Contra issue will stain his presidency forever in the history books.

Not according to the right wingers, they think he was the 2nd coming of christ.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Reagan's fix of the Iran-Contra issue will stain his presidency forever in the history books.

Just like Benghazi will always stain Obama's
Just like Sitting with Uncle Stalin will always stain fdr's

 

[ScienceRocks]

Just like the bay of pigs will always stain JFK

 

[jwoodie]

Just for clarity, I have copied the Wikipedia summary of Iran-Contra:

The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ایران-کنترا*, Spanish: caso Irán-contras), also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo.[1] Some U.S. officials also hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.

The scandal began as an operation to free seven American hostages being held by a group with Iranian ties connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution. It was planned that Israel would ship weapons to Iran, and then the U.S. would resupply Israel and receive the Israeli payment. The Iranian recipients promised to do everything in their power to achieve the release of the U.S. hostages. The plan deteriorated into an arms-for-hostages scheme, in which members of the executive branch sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of the American hostages.[2][3] Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista and anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua.[4][5]

Although (with hindsight)this effort was ill advised, it does not seem that it was undertaken for political purposes or personal gain. At most, it violated constitutional separation of powers by continuing to provide funding to the Nicaraguan Contras after they had been defunded by Congress. Did not a similar violation occur when Obama implemented a portion of the Dream Act without Congressional authorization?

Please explain why you think this is the greatest of all modern scandals.