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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewsweek: Bush White House "lost" 22 million emails
And, yes, they were on a private server.
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/george-w-bush-white-house-lost-22-million-emails-497373.html
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Why doesn't media talk about that?
mcar
(42,372 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)We have bill Clinton, president obama, comey and bush all running for president when in reality we have Hillary Clinton vs Donald trump. The focus should be them.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)who were in control of the House and Senate when Obama was sworn in, for NOT raising hell about ANYTHING that happened during the previous EIGHT years of the * Administration.
Sometimes I'm thoroughly embarrassed to call myself a Democrat/Progressive.
malaise
(269,157 posts)PatSeg
(47,586 posts)a higher standard. Even they know that Democrats have more integrity. I think they resent it and that is why they are always trying to bring Democrats down.
putitinD
(1,551 posts)deminks
(11,017 posts)Where were they then?
kentuck
(111,110 posts)A double standard?
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Republicans are praised & honored for things which they believe Democrats should be literally drawn & quartered for.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)That the system is rigged, both sides suck, we need to shake up the system, drain the swamp. He would argue that the bush administration was part of the system.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)make America great again and he does not have a plan. A business man needs a plan, perhaps the reason he has so many failed ventures, no business plan.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)the apprentice. Call people to the Oval Office, hear their plans, if he doesn't like the plan fire people.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)and departments such as defense, education, health and on and on.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)so much of RW rhetoric is, and they have brainwashed loads of people into believing their lies.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Koinos
(2,792 posts)Everything about it was evil. Republicans own those years, and yet they act as if Obama were the successor to Bill Clinton.
Republicans never take responsibility for their crimes. Trump is their appropriate standard bearer.
underpants
(182,877 posts)There is no reason at this point for the Republican perspective to be given even partial credence let alone for former Bush-Cheney officials to be on the air. There is no drama without two parties and drama is the media's product not information.
Perfect example - the 2006 midterms. Dems wides the floor with a Repub party that was basically over. A woman speaker of the House which was given attention for a day or two and the media went right into the next election. 2010 is mentioned endlessly but not 2006.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Referring to what inspired rules that were broken is not a good road for us to go down.
mcar
(42,372 posts)HRC be hounded but not point out the glaring double standard?
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)To criticize the other administration and defend ours based on their malfeasance is ridiculous.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,588 posts)It's more like, why is this wrong now, when it wasn't wrong then? Or better yet, why no investigation then, but an investigation now?
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)and I know I was mad about it then. Thus, why be mad then and defend it now?
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,588 posts)it being defended. I only see the question of why is it different now?
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)it's being used as a defense.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,588 posts)oh well............ it's really out of our control anyway.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Lets get real.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)where is their hate now.
Bobcat
(246 posts)The deleting of ANY email by the President - much less 22 million - is a direct violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978. This law went into effect in January of 1981 and REQUIRES that ALL correspondence to and from a sitting President must be preserved.
TryLogic
(1,723 posts)loyalsister
(13,390 posts)The administration set the policy. Obama's administration responded to the lack of transparency by establishing (but, unfortunately not enforcing) rules to facilitate transparency.
Obviously the Bush administration had low standards in that area. Would that really justify our side not meeting the ones laid out by Obama's administration? To justify it based on the secrecy of the Bush administration is a very flawed strategy. I want a transparent government.
It's forgivable, but to use Bush's secrecy as a defense is very weak and only keeps the story rolling.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)librechik
(30,676 posts)But Hillary is Evil, therefore her emails are evil. ( magic law of association, ancient stuff)
The repubs are nothing but a religious cult believing in smoke and mirrors.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)back when America was great! America doesn't have time for your email stories. We're trying to make America great again!
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Remember when Pelosi said that?
Gutless and now we have this mess.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Bush was Commander-in-Chief during Iraq invasion.
Obama was Commander-in-Chief during Benghazi.
Obama was Commander-in-Chief during Arab Uprising.
Obama was Commander-in Chief during collapse of Libya and Syria.
Who is responsible for everything? Hillary, of course!!!
Which is another reason I support the most powerful being on Earth!!! More powerful than any president ever!
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)merrifield
(73 posts)Why this wasn't pointed out by Clinton campaign spokespersons and surrogates EVERY TIME her emails come up. It's beyond my why this wasn't brought up by them.
tblue37
(65,483 posts)Reagan and W. Under Obama and Clinton's time as Sec of State, 4 died in one attack. The numbers under GOP presidents are way, way bigger--even excluding 9/11 p, which occurred because W blew off warnings, or the 4000+ Americans who died in Iraq.
TryLogic
(1,723 posts)Republicans fight like hell -- dirty or otherwise. Always loud, always vicious, always well funded.
Trump has said he loves to fight. He is loud, he is vicious, he has money, he has no integrity, no concern for others, blames his victims. He is absolutely the perfect Republican.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)It's waaaay past time this should already have been brought up by the "Librul" media.
tblue37
(65,483 posts)Duppers
(28,126 posts)"Run by the Republican Party and contempt of Congress citationsall of it still unsolved and unpunished."
Cha
(297,640 posts)over that?!
Thank you for the reminder, mcar!
mcar
(42,372 posts)Kind of like all the investigations on Embassy bombings during Reagan and the Bushes.
Cha
(297,640 posts)fascists.. no surprise since they are.
RolfHarris39
(4 posts)But what can you really say about the GOP. They are all a bunch of fascist hypocrites who don't believe in democratic institutions. The demise of that woeful party cannot arrive soon enough.
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Doodley
(9,124 posts)That is what I would like to hear leading Democrats say.