Michelle, re I think he did the right thing, what I wanted him to do, on that issue. OK, conservatives think its honorable to kiss and tell. Good to know. Ill put that in my little black book.
Michelle, I'll just presume that you have no problem with the President having sexual "sessions" with young employees in a little room off the Oval Office. I'll just for the sake of this argument assume that you and many others, whatever your personal opinions of it, will not presume that there exists unspoken standards of perssonal conduct for Presidents, CEOs, Military Generals, indeed bosses of all stripes.
Fine. But remember, Ken Starr didn't even know who Monica was until the Jones legal team decided they wanted to question her about him. And why was this? Because it seems that Mr. Clinton, according to a former State of Arkansas employee, dropped his pants uninvited, and told her to kiss it. This isn't just some good ol' boy. This was the Governor of Arkansas. Some question the amount of time that has passed since the alleged incident. But everyone knows that at that time, the word sexual harassment wasn't something that people equated with lawsuits and plaintiffs, if indeed they had even heard of the term.
My contention is that it has clearly been a consistent standard of bad conduct which has led Clinton to the place where he was called to court on a charge of sexual harassment, which of course he vehemently denied. If then-Governor Clinton was guilty of the thing Jones accused him of, do you think that it also would constitute of form of "kiss and tell", if he admitted fault in that incident? Or do you believe that anything to do with wrong sexual conduct should indeed be the legal privilige for all men, great and small, to freely perjure themselves about, while the populace stands by and cheers them?
The Judge in the Paula Jones case said that even ifthen-Governor Clinton was guilty of eposing his penis to a fellow State of Arkansas employee and telling her to "kiss it", "it would not constitute outrageous behavior" in the State of Arkansas. With that judgement, Judge Susan Webber Wright, in my opinion, has disgraced her office and her duties, and is no longer fit to serve public office. Because with that summary judgement, she encouraged this sort of base behavior not only in common citizens, but in officials in high and powerful public offices.
So in my view, Bill's disgraces which he has visited upon the public have been NOT just one little marital indiscretion or even two: His troubles began when he uninvited, allegedly exposed himself to an employee who was far down the food chain in the Arkansas government, while he was at the top.
Michelle, neither you nor I, nor undoubtedly any of us on this thread, were we granted high office as has Bill has, even imagine so badly abusing the public trust as has Bill Clinton.
No, it's not about simply lying about an extramarital affair. It is the pattern and consistency of Clinton's abuses that make me long for a political cleansing. |
