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Old 10-07-2008, 01:42 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by smooth View Post
Regardless of how much involvement you want to put on his shoulders, he either learned his lesson or was simply caught up as a young senator by political forces outside his control.
Either way, his record demonstrates to me that he would prefer a system that doesn't allow political corruption and has made moves to limit corruption of public officials.
It may have been early in his career but he was over 50 years old at the time. He wasn't a naive kid and he had been accepting donations and perks like use of Keating's jet for five years.

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