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You're absolutely right Tim, $40 million for what, a sex novel.
For $40 million, we could have fed a lot of hungry people, or bought a lot of books for schoolchildren, or fixed a lot of roads, or helped fund new initiatives in health care or technology development or helped a lot of struggling businesses which could have kept a lot of people employed.
We all know that Clinton lied. He lied about some very sleazy things he had done. But who did he hurt ? Well, he hurt his family, big time.
But as far as I am concerned, it is between him and his family, and to bring it all out here is nothing more than a political hatchet job.
Yes, he lied regarding a deposition in a civil case with respect to an extramarital affair. I'd like to know how many citizens who have done this have been charged with felony perjury.
I'm not asking anyone to like Clinton, or even to respect him, because what he has done certainly is morally wrong, and no one is going to argue about that.
But from my perspective, in terms of a CRIMINAL matter, it does not compare to:
A prior administration that authorized a burglary for political purposes that was subsequently covered up, and
A prior administration that diverted millions of dollars for the covert assistance of rebels and lied about it.
When you lie about cheating on your wife, it is morally wrong, but when you lie about having committed a crime against the country and cover the crime up, that is another matter, at least in my humble opinion.
Off my soapbox.
David
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