<OT> Large quotes of worthless editorials? As opposed to your personal pompous moralizing, in the grand Christian Nation/Moral Majority style?
If they violate the public trust then they should be brought down hard and broken.
Whatever. Violating the public trust is somewhat nebulous, I'd put the S&L thing somewhat higher on that list than the Clinton/Starr deal. I've heard the "worthless editorial" or equivalent dismissal of contrary evidence plenty of times before, too. People believe what they want to believe, like with the integrity and uniformity of the Windows experience. Then they lecture on what constitutes "substance" versus "all that typing and you've said nothing", as the old master of cheesy high school debate tricks used to say. One more little quote for you.
Carville, one of Clinton's closest political associates, says in the book that he met Starr in October 1993, in the USAir executive lounge at Washington National Airport, although at the time he had no idea who Starr was. Carville recalled that a stranger walked up to him and "started spouting an unsolicited and shameful tirade against the president."
"Your boy's getting rolled," Carville said the stranger said ominously to him before walking away.
That's your impartial arbiter of justice there, before going into his new job with an open mind. He already had his friends working on "the Arkansas project" for him, though, and was advising Paula Jones. Ok, it's Carville, hardly an impartial source, but it sure sounds like Ken Starr to me. Getting rolled usually means being mugged, I think. You want to give us all another lecture on the importance of those 3 perjury convictions/year at the federal level, and how unfair it would be to those guys if Clinton isn't impeached? I wouldn't know, but I'd wager a large proportion of those convictions come in cases where the perp gets off, and the feds get new evidence, but can't retry on the original charges. As for speeding tickets, I guess I'd expect a lame metaphorical analogy in this crowd. Chrysler Car Radio and all that. Like my honest Republican said, "Sometimes you have to exercise prosecutorial discretion."
Cheers, Dan. |
