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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: jlallen who wrote (6282)9/17/1998 7:38:00 PM
From: Doughboy  Read Replies (2) of 13994
 
In Hyde's own words, speaking about a illegal, immoral adulterous sexual relationship:

We sit here to find a punishment that fits the breach, and so in searching our souls for the appropriate punishment, I ask the Members to consider this situation in its totality, in its entire context.

I suggest to the Members that [he] would rather have lost an arm at the shoulder than have to tell his wife, than have to greet his wife as he did with the media. I suggest that all life is about is to earn the esteem of our fellow men. That is what we are here for. That is why we run for election. . . . That is lost to [him]. He is embarrassed, he is humiliated, he is displaced. And it endures; it is not over. It will never be over. It will not be over as long as he lives . . . . Mr. Speaker, I suggest to the Members that compassion and justice are complementary. The Judeo-Christian tradition says, "hate the sin and love the sinner." We are on record as hating the sin, some more ostentatiously than others. I think it is time to love the sinner.

Whom was Hyde defending? Himself? Clinton? Nope, it was 1983, and he was defending Daniel Crane a Republican Congressman from Illinois who carried on a torrid affair with a 17 yr old congressional page. He and Gerry Studds (whom also had an affair with a page) were both CENSURED by the House after more serious charges of expulsion were voted down.

Doughboy.
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