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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Scumbria who wrote (139438)4/20/2001 10:01:36 AM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (2) of 769669
 
Jefferson didn't have obsessed power hungry political enemies putting him on the stand questioning the intimate details of his sex life.

And neither did Clinton. Clinton merely had found himself in a situation wherein he was accused of sexual impropriety and, as part of the very legal effort to get to the bottom of the accusation, was asked a legal question—to which he responded with a lie under oath. In Jefferson’s day, a man could virtually do as he wanted with a woman and that woman would not have had the guts to press a legal charge. Indeed, the law simply did not recognize her rights in this regard. That is why Jefferson and scarcely any other politician of his day was never faced with such a legal circumstance.

(And as for their wanting to preserve Democracy more than we-- you must consider that women and blacks could not vote. THAT is the "democracy" very many leaders of the time wanted to preserve.)

Your comparison is absurd, because in 1790 the country was more concerned with sustaining Democracy than it is now.

A purely subjective determination and an obvious non sequitur even were we to accept it—which we do not.

Moreover, I did not make a comparison. You did. I in fact argued that such comparisons ought not be made. Jefferson’s circumstances are markedly different from those of Bill Clinton. I think Jefferson was a victim of a character that, had it existed in modern times would never have allowed itself to be soiled as Bill Clinton allowed his to be soiled.
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