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Politics : Should Clinton resign?

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To: Zoltan! who wrote (243)	9/13/1998 8:45:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (3) of 567

<<There will be hearings, and as Will said, the hearings will inform public opinion, not the reverse.>> Perhaps. I doubt it. And what do you suppose will happen if In the Watergate crisis most of the American people did not think the President had actually done what the prosecutors said he had. And in that situation, the investigation was only partly completed when it was handed over to Congress by Jaworski. The prosecution's case had not been fully developed. In this crisis the vast majority of the American people take for granted that Clinton did what Starr's best evidence shows he may have - committed perjury. I think most Americans think he also let Lewinsky know that he hoped she'd do the same to keep their affair private. Given the underlying subject of the perjury, and the circumstances under which it occurred, most of the American people don't think its important enough to impeach him. In other words, the worst stuff about the President is out. And the American people aren't buying it. In essence they are making a Constitutional judgment. They know a President shouldn't be impeached for just some little wrong, but only for a very big wrong. And they also know in their guts that it is very important whether the President's wrong relates to his job -- does it involve a direct breach of trust in the discharge of his duties and powers as President. They just don't buy the argument that because he is the "hightest law enforcement officer in the land" the President should be impeached for some relative minor illegality. Some minor crime. Because otherwise all respect for law in our land will collapse. Just aren't buying it. They're right not to. Got to be a High Crime and Misdemeanor. Which sex perjury is not. Certainly not in these unaggrivated circumstances. I for one am certainly not saying perjury would never be impeachable. I think it usually would be. Perjury by the President covering up the illegal campaign finance activities of his subordinates would clearly be impeachable. Because it goes to the serious abuse of his office. But not this most minor of all imaginable perjuries, for the most understandable of all imaginable reasons. Its about as minor a crime as a true crime could be. Seems to me. Under all the circumstances. Doug

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