My own feeling, which you obviously do not share, Bruce, is that Obama has a personal fortitude that gives him a certain resistance to the kind of corruption that Bush fell into whole-heartedly.

You go on and on about me having a double standard, but it comes back to the same thing every time--comparing two things that are different and calling the differences.

Obama wrestles with nicotine, while Bush was a dry drunk. Obama was a constitutional scholar while W was a failed businessman. Obama was Harvard Law with excellent academic records, while W was a "C" student more given to frat parties than study. The differences between them go on and on, and they are more than sufficient to justify different judgments.

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