Will the media will treat scandalous donations to Bush's library as a big story? No, our standards have changed in 8 years.

George Bush has made a mess of the world, and earned a reputation for lying about things like weapsons of mass destruction.

Bill Clinton made a mess of his sex life, and earned a reputation for lying about things like exactly where the line is drawn between playing around and intercourse. Also, there was a scandal about donations to his library.

I don't think that the questionable donations to Bush's library will become much of a scandal.

Somehow, the issue has faded in importance over the last eight years.


Chicago Tribune
Washington Bureau
"The Swamp"

Lobbyist: $200K gift to Bush library helps
The library rejects any discussion of money in exchange for any meetings
July 13, 2008

by Mark Silva

"Stephen Payne, a significant fundraiser for President Bush's election and reelection campaigns, certainly didn't know he was being videotaped when he suggested that he could arrange some meetings with Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the Bush administration with a big donation to the Bush presidential library.

"And Payne, a Houston-based lobbyist and longtime Bush-backer who has served as a volunteer travel-advance planner for White House trips abroad, later told the Sunday Times of London, which today reported on the videotaped meeting between Payne and a Kazakh exile in London purportedly seeking some high-level contact with the Bush administration for a friend back home, that he certainly intended no 'quid pro quo.''"