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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (8239)10/15/1998 1:20:00 PM
From: halfscot  Read Replies (1) of 13994
 
Nat Hentoff, Washington Post:

When Bill Clinton announced his candidacy for the presidency the first time, I started researching his record as governor of Arkansas to hear something about his principles.

I called a reporter I know in Little Rock. He had covered Clinton's entire political career to that point.

"What drives him besides ambition?" I asked. "What does he believe in?"

The reporter answered, "You won't believe this at first. In terms of what you're asking, there is no Bill Clinton. He has no principles he would not abandon if it costs him votes. However, he is a hell of a campaigner."

From what I have learned since, that Little Rock reporter turned out to be a keen analyst.

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post:

...After the speech (Clinton's televised confession), reports The Post, the White House issued talking points to aides suggesting how they should react to reporter's questions about feeling betrayed by te president's deception.

Sample question: "Do you forgive him for misleading you and the country?"

Answer: "It's been said that 'He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.' Of course I do."

This is the point at which cynicism turns into moral depravity. This president doesn't even allow the feelings of those betrayed by him to go unscripted, unsimulated, unmanipulated, uncorrupted.

Is there no end to the corruption of this man? Is there no dignity left among his staff?
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