"It was my White House that the president begrimed with his seedy trysts and my
confidence the he betrayed with his dishonest declarations and my system of justice he
mocked with his wormy lies".
That may well be... but let's see who REALLY besmirched the white house: Bush disobeyed a DIRECT ORDER from congress to not continue to fund the Contras, but he did so anyway, COUNTLESS PEOPLE DYING in the battles in the Nicaraguan forests, to say nothing of drug smuggling and arms to Iran that paid for it. Nixon was trying to undermine the Democratic party, trying to destroy the political structure of the US. Johnson lied about a non-existant attack as the "reason" why we should get involved in the Viet Nam war, sending tens of thousands of Americans - and many, many more Asians than that, to their deaths in the following years.
Clinton has diddled a few women, one half his age, and he has repeatedly denied it. Under oath. Does this really deserve the same level of outrage from the American people, or the world? I don't think so, not by a long shot. But sex sells, and I guess you are a buyer. As are many others.
Perhaps a whole new level of sophistication is needed to appreciate the difference between actions and false denials between consenting adults on the one hand, and starting or continuing wars - in which many DIE - based on lies, or manipulating America's democracy itself.
Who is ready for this new level of sophistication? Are you? |
