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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (56276)9/27/1999 7:18:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Meanwhile Clinton has disgraced his office, and lowered the standards by which we evaluate officeholders. If you do not think that that is very real damage to the country, then you are mistaken.

I am not entirely sure this is the case. My own feeling is that anything that diminishes public trust in public leaders - and thus leads people to suspect, question, and challenge those leaders - is ultimately good for the country. The more we assume that our leaders are screwing us (and whoever else they can get their hands on) and the more we watch their every move, the better off we will be.

I don't really think that anything is much different, just that we are looking more closely now. Perhaps we should thank the Republicans for abandoning issues in favor of scandal-seeking.

I do hope the Republicans win this time 'round, though I wouldn't want them to have Congress as well. I did support Clinton in his first campaign. This has nothing to do with the individual candidates, who I find mainly irrelevant. I don't like to see either party hold both the executive and legislative branches, and I don't like to see either party hold either branch for more than two consecutive terms.

This could mean that I am a believer in checks and balances, or that I think a paralyzed government is by no means the worst kind.
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