To those of you who support Clinton - be honest also. You support his policies, and you would support Jeffrey Dahmer if you could find a way to justify doing so, as long as he pushed a pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, or whatever your favorite issue is, agenda. The supporters of Bill are afraid that if they stop supporting Bill, their agenda will be overrun by screaming bible-waving fanatics that are trying to return women to the 18th century, and want to make sure that people only have sex through a hole in a sheet that's draped over the woman, so the man isn't sullied by that wanton.
Ok, I'll be honest. Here's what I wrote in a private post to dougjn a week back:
It's not like I thought much of Clinton to begin with, I had hopes for him in '92, he seemed smart, and it was a relief to have a President who knew how to talk after the Reagan/Bush years. But he hit the ground stumbling, and it just kept getting worse. Another Jimmy Carter, wanted to be President but didn't know why. Better campaigner, equally inept politically, (much?) less personal integrity. I though Hillary's botch of national health care was the nadir, little did I know.
On the impeachment matter, I support Clinton. As you seem to agee with somewhat, bimbogate just doesn't cut it as an impeachable offense. Not because I like Clinton politically, who knows what he actually believes in. I've watched the Clinton hate industry grow to fruition over the last 6 years, and it's bizarre. Who killed Vince Foster? Clinton addicted to crack? Clinto as Caligula? To quote JLA quoting an admonition to McCarthy, "have you no shame"? (not you, j_b, but the many participants in the industry around here)
Clinton's just some small state governor in over his head. Living in what used to be known as a politically clean state (also the scene of Dahmer's crimes, sadly), which has been turned into a patronage machine by an apparent governor for life (going into his 4th 4 year term with token opposition), a good Catholic who hasn't lived with his wife for 20-odd years(open information), but is known to enjoy the company of women (open secret), I know for sure Clinton's not unique. To make him the devil incarnate is very corrosive to the political process. I take off on Republicans because I'm hard put to find an example of the kind of venomous attacks made on Clinton over the past six years on the Democratic side. I can't even think of anything approaching Willy Horton coming from Clinton's campaigns. You can go back to LBJ and Goldwater, I guess, but that's a long way back. There were always various stuff about Nixon flying around, but not on the front pages and TV news. Who's the Democratic Rush Limbaugh? Who's the Democratic Paul Mellon Scaife? I've been labeled a partisan hater, but if somebody can come up with some evidence that would make me more than the wimpiest piker in the anti-Clinton league, if turned around, let me know. |
