not that you should automatically distrust the WH either. Anybody who has lived through the Clinton years should be automatically suspicious of all of this stuff piling up at one time geared to embarrass a Democratic Administration. Whatever some people think of President Obama, I'm also way more willing to give him the benefit of the doubt way more than Bush/Cheney. I just don't think he and his Administration are filled with a bunch of incompetent, corrupt cronies with negative agendas. Not everybody is great, of course, but his Administration has generally been managed and run cleanly and relatively scandal-free and most of the "scandals" that have arisen have been mostly Fox News/Glenn Beck/Breitbart-inspired "manufactroversies" that almost always fell apart under closer scrutiny. If I've had a problem with how he's handled these things, it's that he's usually been too quick to fire/demand resignations/withdraw nominations without first insisting on a more thorough investigation first IMHO. On some level, I just don't think that he wants the distractions but sometimes he needs to push back more or at least demand more evidence of wrongdoing before letting the right-wing claim another scalp.
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