Al Gore would be President today instead of President-select Smirk if Clinton would have controlled himself....
You don't honestly believe that do you? It had nothing to do with the man who was in the Oval Office, it was all about getting a Republican into it by any means possible. The "Independent" scoundrel, oops, I mean counsel wasn't doing anything but increasing the pressure until something could be found. Look at the results: Whitewater, no findings of any criminal nature for either of the Clintons; Travel-gate, ditto; 900 FBI files, ditto. So they got him, in desperation because the American people were finally getting really sick of all the baselessness, on an ambush....but don't kid yourself, if it wasn't that, it would have been the gifts, or whatever else they could cull together that had some kind of chance of at least appearing plausible if enough Republicans of power chanted the same thing in the national media enough times.
Gore got more votes than any President in history with the exception of Reagan, but it wasn't enough to stop the machine.
The office of the presidency wasn't hurt so much by it's occupant as by the assault that was mounted against it by the opposition who couldn't win it by popular vote in two elections(and still haven't).
Now we will all have to bear with the results of those efforts. I hope all will be well but so far, it's not a very auspicious start. We have a president who was not elected by the majority of the voting citizenry, so he has no mandate to guide him, for his platform was rejected in favor of another. So he is not responsible to the voters, which begs the question: who is he responsible to?
He is the president, so he has whatever loyalty I can muster, but I've seen nothing in his actions that gives me more hope for the country's well-being than fear for what harm a puppet-presidency will do.
You can demonize the Clintons all you want, and some of it is deserved, but you cannot take away the fact that under his stewardship this country has prospered like never before , and the average American is far better off economically now than when he took office. I hope I can still say the same thing about the effects of Bush's presidency in four years. |
