>>Reality would help. And I don't see what was so original, but it's yours, and we are in some dispute, so I figure we can't be impartial regarding the artistic impression. De gustibus non est disputandum and all that.
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>OK. We disagree.
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>I'm still trying to remember the congressional investigation and impeachment that most certainly happened when Reagan and his criminal gang had the hostages held in Iran until his inauguration day. Do you have a link to one of the major news stories about that?

If nothing happened to him with Iran-Contra affair, why would this matter? I'm sure it can' be found that there is no law saying anything about negotiating with anyone to release hostages at a later time so that the opponent doesn't win brownie points for the elections (never mind who actually negotiated). That is just not covered.

He already charmed everybody (not me, I still remembered Country Joe McDonald), and pumped back testosterone into everybody's V8 engines, ripped off those greenly solar contraptions off the White House, and had a PR team who invented the term "teflon politician". It didn't matter how many blunders he made, it only mattered that none would stick to his name.

Lack of prosecution doesn't prove anything, except that there was no prosecution. By that logic, robber barons weren't robbing, because they weren't imprisoned and their loot repossessed.