It's the Lies

One of my pet hates is when someone hears a piece of music, particularly a classic, and assigns it to some recent movie as though it had just been purpose written. History, even pop history, gives a sense of dimensions.
The same can go for other cultural issues, such as politics. Lazy assumptions don’t really enlighten anyone, simply encourage shallow thinking.
This rant developed when I started reading comments like ‘current scandal echoes Watergate.’ All political scandals echo Watergate in many aspects, but they are all different in detail. It is a silly as the comparisons drawn between the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy. Any aspect apart from their assassination is pure circumstance.
Watergate and the CIA leak certainly share cover up and lies, but then so do most scandals. That is how most miscreants are finally brought down.
Nixon and Bush might equally have not been involved in the actual deed. They both shared the overall responsibility for what occurred during their watch. They also had the opportunity to affect they way business was done, while maintaining Nixon’s famous ‘plausible deniability’.
The only way the involvement issue differs from the Clinton Scandal is that Bill didn’t seem too interested in delegating the perks.
The clincher, from The Penn Online KENDRA SLEDZINSKI
“Sound familiar? It’s because similar charges were brought upon Libby: one count of obstruction of justice, two counts perjury (lying under oath) and two counts of making untrue statements. After the charges were announced, Libby, like Nixon, resigned.”
Wow Kendra, there should be some kind of Nobel Prize for that. I repeat, most political miscreants are brought down by those kinds of charges in lieu of the hard evidence which is so difficult to find in these secretive affairs.
I might also point out, Nixon was a president of the United States; Liddy was a White House dogsbody, albeit powerful, who was appointed and not elected.
Kendra continues: “Nixon lied about knowledge of the burglary. Clinton lied about with whom he was intimate. But the lying that happened in the Libby scandal may have resulted in the death of more than 2,000 American soldiers.”
…and Jefferson might well have lied about bedding Sally Hemmings; Mary Todd Lincoln might have lied about her spending on White House spending; Ulysses S. Grant might have lied about his involvement in the Crédit Mobilier Affair; William Rufus De Vane King, the only bachelor Vice President might have lied about having sex with his plantation slave boys and we can go on. It seems de rigeur for politicians to resort to telling big porkies (pork pies = lies) when they are caught with their fingers in the cash drawer, or other body parts where they ought not be.
A common factor, in the majority of political scandals is the lies. Apart from that, if we are to learn anything about how to overcome the entrenched corruption, we must consider the unique information in each and take steps to avoid repetition.