First off, I'm not sure where my original post went. It doesn't seem to be here anymore. But since you were kind enough to repeat a lot of it, I can work from there.
I notice that you left out "...and partisan..." in your response. I would assume that's because, while ignorant is admittedly an insulting term, partisan is too accurate to contest, and especially tough since it is so often applied to the Republicans. BTW, I am not, nor would I ever be, a Republican, (or for that matter a Democrat), so you can feel free to insult them as much as you want. As for "violate the law," it would seem to me that you demonstrate your ignorance with your statement that "all (Starr) found after 6 years was about sex." What he found was perjury and obstruction of justice "about sex. Those are, no matter how you might feel about Clinton, serious crimes. As a matter of fact, they're felonies.
But, since the charges against Clinton, even if all are true, do not rise to the level of impeachment...
Again, ignorance. First, if true they are, once again, felonies. A felon cannot even run for president, much less be president. Second, obviously it did rise to the level of impeachment, as he has already been impeached!
then the threat of trial should remain until he gets out of office.
Absolutely. That's what the Constitution says. But it also says (essentially) that an elected official whose crimes are so egregious that he cannot be trusted to faithfully execute his duties should be removed. And that is what the Senate is now deciding. The issue of his criminal trial on the charges of perjury and obstruction of justice are an entirely separate matter.
But there are all kinds of laws and levels of laws. Would you want to live in a country where elected officials jaywalked and got away with it?
Not when I can't get away with it. The issue isn't the "level" of the law, but the fact that you are advocating that he get away with it solely because of who he is. That is legal relativism.
Think of the sheep in Animal Farm being taught to bleat "Four legs good, two legs better."
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