so you agree with his gutting of the ethics office, since that has been ongoing since the end of the campaign till now but you started a thread criticizing the gutting of the ethics office?
He may not have been aware of the length of time it's been going on. Could be condemned on a technicality.
You could fill 100 M.E.Ts (Metropolitan Museum of Art) with all the opinions I've changed over my lifetime because I didn't have a crucial piece of info or wasn't aware of a circumstance. It's so easy to nail someone to the wall for stuff like that. Little knowledge gaps. There's so much happening and it's all being filtered through different channels - never mind the spin, simply collecting the data and allocating the "when" and "where" it happened is a tall order.
I'm a younger guy, grew up in the early 90's, and I made a comment during the last election about Newt Gingrich being one of the brightest candidates on the stage - especially during the debates (no comments about his politics). My friend went off on me about some action or lack of action that he took while he was speaker of the house during Clinton's campaign that should "totally disqualify him from every conservative voter's mind."
I was just thinking, "For Christ's sake! I can't know everything that every politician has said or done during every waking moment of their tenure." Yah there's being informed and educated but at some point you just know your gonna get dinged because you've got a knowledge gap. The political sphere is so vast that I really just try to sit and listen and read what's posted here and then chime in if there seems to be A: A perceived flaw in logic or B: A personal anecdote that I think could enrich the conversation.
I've just gone off for a few paragraphs constructing a hypothetical defense for a guy who may not need it, but I felt it should be mentioned in the midst of all these political threads. There's just stuff that folks aren't aware of. And there should be grace - grace to say, "Oh, well I didn't know that" and grace to say "No worries, now you know."