Let's be real: EVERY president and most senators and MOCs have done things in office we can condemn

[Stinky The Clown]

23. Thank you, Effie

Like you, I am up to here with the DU Hate machine.

With presidents, there is the man and the policies.

I never liked very much about GHWB's policies. I never really liked his wife very much; I found her arrogant and elitist. But the reality, as I see it, is he was a genuinely decent man who held the nation in the very highest regard and did his best to do the best for it as he saw the best to be.

As you say, they are all flawed. WE are all flawed.

Until now, every modern president was within a standard deviation from dead center perfection. To be sure there are degrees of good and degrees of bad, and even at that the degrees are measured by each of us based on our own standards. I believe it is only now we are seeing an outlier. We would be very much better off were a person like GHWB now our president.

You cite current politicians in your OP, but looking back on Democrats of the past two come immediately to mind. Both WJC and JFK were horndogs to similar degrees. One was impeached for it, one lived in a different time. Both were good presidents.

We need to be more charitable in our assessment of our leaders.