David Brooks: "President Obama Has Run An Amazingly Scandal-Free Administration"
"President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the people around him. He’s chosen people who have been pretty scandal-free," conservative New York Timesopinion writer David Brooks said Friday on PBS' NewsHour.
Brooks was discussing the Dennis Hastert scandal with liberal sparring partner Matt Shields at the time.
"David makes a good point," Shields said. "And I agree with him on this administration in particular."
First, if the allegations about the contact with the boys are true, well, we have seen that with the Catholic Church. We have seen a disturbing undercurrent in American life, I guess, and maybe in world life, of this sort of thing.
I am struck, as Mark just mentioned, the whole litany of people, especially of that era, who were involved in some scandal or another. Some of it was sexual. Some of it was more financial, even Tom DeLay’s, Speaker Wright. And it was just all concentrated in a lot of people all at once.
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