Re: More guidance on virtues and values.
> The author of The Book of Virtues was interviewed on CNN this morning
> (Sunday, October 30, 2005) about the White House perjury scandal. He
> explained for us that perjury at the highest levels of the White House
> and lying to a federal investigator and a grand jury is no big deal. He
> graded them as "C minus" indiscretions. As definitive proof of the
> moral and legal insignificance of the pranks he explained that the
> alleged scandal involves people with silly names such as Scooter and
> Valerie. Having finished his analysis Mr. Bennet then rushed back to
> the baccarat tables.
It's the Republican equivalent of the Democrat Clinton defense: "Everybody
does it!"
.
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