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To: Tom Trader who wrote ()	12/13/1998 1:39:00 PM
From: Tom Trader	Read Replies (2) of 548

I shall start the ball rolling with my thoughts about the Clinton's impeachment. Although I supported his election and feel that he has done a creditable job as President, I feel that it is incumbent on the House to do its duty and impeach Clinton. I am at a loss to understand those who talk about it being about sex and nothing else. It is about perjury, obstruction of justice and arguably about abuse of power. It is incomprehensible to me that he is allowed to stay in power and appoint Supreme court judges, an attorney general or to talk about law and order issues. He has shown a flagrant disregard for the law. I think of him the very same way that I think of Richard Nixon -- a brilliant man, who is morally bankrupt. Nixon was despised by the liberals and Clinton is detested by conservatives -- both had the ability to engender strong reactions and polarize opinion. I was genuinely saddened to witness the first article of impeachment being passed on Friday -- saddened to see that a man of considerable promise and accomplishment had been brought down by his complete disregard for the law that he had sworn to uphold. The thing that bothered me in the past was his lack of conviction about what he stood for and his inclination to rely on the polls in terms of what was expedient. Reagan and Thatcher were leaders whose philosophies were in many instances diametrically opposite to my views -- but they were people of conviction and I respected that-- and that is something that I can never say about Clinton. I wholly believe Dick Morris when he testified that Clinton asked him to conduct opinion polls to determine how Americans would react to his admitting having committed perjury and/or obstruction of justice--and that when the results of the poll were adverse, he then said something to the effect "then we'll just have to win". Clinton acted to thwart a law-suit filed by Paula Jones--who I consider to have been used by the some of the conservative crowd -- and rather than fight the suit on its merits, sought to perjure himself and obstruct her ability to get a fair hearing. On the political spectrum, I am what one would probably categorize as a "liberal" though I will confess that I am less so today than in days gone by. George Will, who I once heard at some event, once said that the liberals of the 60s and 70s who espoused the philosophy of "soaking the rich" had undergone a conversion of sorts, since the "soakers" had become the "soakees"!! May be a grain of truth to that -- but probably more to do with the generally accepted view that one tends to become more conservative as one gets older.

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