Ok I am going to jump in here and add my two cents... of course everyone is welcome to dog pile and rip my thoughts apart, but it is doubtful you will change my mind <g>
Clinton and his spin doctors, are desperately trying to separate his personal flaws, from his professional abilities, ok I can buy that spin. After all he is only human so we are told. Most Americans will agree to this ideaology. <sp?>
But in the real world I am willing to bet that 80% of the American citizens have been passed over for a job or a promotion or some type of personal advancement because of a personal flaw... via a credit checks or some other type of personal background check. All this is perfectly legal, by way of the US laws.
So I ponder this aspect of both our and the presidents life... all of us as American citizens, if we are passed over for promotions in our average mundane world due to our average mundane imperfections, why should the most important position in the world be immune to the same factors that we average citizens have to over come everyday? A sitting President should set and lead by example.
An example if a banker bounces checks in his personal life, how would you react to him being in control of millions of dollars of money that is not his? Bet you wouldnt be all that comfortable dealing with that bank.
Well the President has a little more power than that banker, he can make wars, he can make peace, he can basically destroy our world as we know it. Yet he has admitted to not telling the truth, the reasoning should not count... personal or professional the bottom line is he was caught lying. I dont know maybe others are comfortable knowing that we have a very crafty liar in the White House, but I find it extremely unsettling.
I find the Presidents affair no big deal... I bet there are probably a few dozen affairs being consumated as I type, so this does not disturb me or surprise me. But what does disturb me and surprise me is the length and effort that was put into covering this little mundane personal flaw. Then blaming Ken Starr for forcing him to admit to this mundane little personal flaw... well maybe if the President had voluntarily admitted to this in January, we would have made fun of the fact and gotten on with our lives... now we and the world will find it hard to ever trust the Clinton administration ever again.
Then again his attackers from all sides should shut up and knock off their petty power plays and let all this run its course... I still give the American people credit for being able to make up their own minds without intervention from "leaders of either side".
But then again no one cares or remembers the "Tea Pot Dome Scandal" of the 1920's... I guess if it doesnt stick, future historians 60 or 70 years from now will consider this another little annoying side note of American History.
KAA
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