Actually, I'm still on the "everybody else did it" thing. I found it amusing that every person named as acting inappropriately in the WH were all Democrats.
But I'm still of the type that holds the Founding Fathers in extremely high regard, especially in lieu of all of the recent biographies recently written about them. They were extraordinary men, the likes of which the modern era still hasn't seen.
And I'm always hearing half-baked rumors about some of them that are uncorroborated by anything. Heck, some of them I've heard were outright lies (one was that Lincoln owned slaves - just imagine - the guy who rose to political office as a life-long abolitionist - positively ridiculous). Do we just hear some scurrilous rumor, and believe it? NO body would believe that someone like Reagan was running around in office - why would we believe that Washington did?
Can anyone point to a single source that says that some of these men did these things? I'm not convinced. I'm certainly not convinced by the argument "well *I* would have done it, then". Those were dangerous times, then - men killed each other in duels, and fought on the floor of Congress. With a nation almost always in peril, it's hard to believe some of these men, in the beginning, were all a bunch of lying scoundrels.
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