[MRM]

That's not what res ipsa means, but I take your point. Show me corrupt actions on Obama's part and I'll join your denounciation. In the mean time I applaud serious investigation by the Times, even when it's someone else's Times. I just don't think that based on the evidence at hand it is fair to say Obama "surrounds" himself with corrupt people. To say that and then challenge him to prove he's not corrupt is one of the famous fallacies of rhetoric taught by Plato himself.