Ibexx, >>>A midnight snack for the INTC threaders:<<<
A midnight snack for some, but a nightmare for others.
The founding fathers provided a lot of checks and balances so that no one can abuse the privileges of power. Our (mostly) two party system also serve to provide checks and balances. Being an adversary system, things inevitable go too far. That is a small price we have to pay.
For the most part, however, there are more things that bind us together than that which separates us. In general, the lunatic fringe on either side, the left and the right, are the real enemies.
The real enemy in this particular case is not the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, or the institutions of government.
The real enemy is the behavior of one individual. He didn't do it for some noble cause. He didn't do it because he was a Democrat. He did it because he is a selfish and immature jerk. He did dmamage to himself, his family, his politcal party, the Presidency, and to his country.
He did it because he wanted to have perverted sex at any time, at anywhere, and with whomever he pleased and then was not man enough to admit it even after being cornered. He chose instead to lie and obstruct justice (although not enough to warrant Impeachment).
Yes, it is perverted sex. It was not even a normal adulterous affair where he would have sexual intercourse, when circumstances with his wife had changed and he fell in love, with another adult women. Instead he chose to use a subordinate as an instrument for some one way sex act that is questionable by definition - depending on how you define sex. He tried to hide behind and use, by all accounts a very honorable civil servent, Betty Currie to obstruct justice.
If it was not for DNA evidence, he would have denied it and trashed the young woman in question.
With the exception of an oddball here and there, no one can defend Clinton's behavior. It is hard to imagine that Clinton's selfishness and immaturity can be confined to some weird sexual activity.
Demonizing each other in the general populace, however, is the real sin coming out of this ugly affair.
It is evident that Bill Clinton is not a person with real convictions about anything noble. I think Dick Morris can tell you all about how the two of them really think. Clinton will abandon any feelings of principle if it will prevent damage to him in the polls just as he would abandon any female that he shared some kind of sex act with (Flowers, Jones, Lewinsky, Wiley, Broderick, Browning, Gracen, MacDougal, beauty pageant winners, the numbered Jane Does, and all the complicit females) if they came forward.
Whether this type of behavior prucludes someone from occupying the office of the President of the United States is legitimately debateable. There are good and honorable people on both sides of this issue.
To paraphrase someone who defended a Nixon appointtee to the Supreme Court, there are plenty of jerks in our society and they also have to be represented. Why can't a President also be a jerk?
That could be debated, but don't let us demonize each other in the process.
Regards,
Mary
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