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To: long-gone who wrote (6162)	7/9/2000 1:09:46 AM
From: Mark Marcellus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17683

OT Continued: If all you can find wrong with this President is perjury then no wonder you can't see anything wrong with payoffs by Fannie & Freddie. Fannie & Freddie are at their base political. I never said that the only thing I find wrong with this President is perjury. I find plenty wrong with Clinton. I will admit that I like him better than most of the other bozos who pretend to govern, and that I believe that he's about the best we can get from our system as currently constituted. My point was that impeaching a President for lying to hide an extramarital affair, even if he was under oath, strikes me as silly. It's silly even if the lie rises to the level of perjury, of which I'm not convinced. And we won't even get into the sequence of events which got us to where this happened, during a deposition that was later ruled irrelevant to the case it was taken for. It is clear to me that the Supreme Court erred when they determined that a sitting President could be sued in civil court, and I doubt we'll ever see that happen again. In any event, anyone who is that outraged by the President's lies should make it their mission to see that those CEO's who lied about the addictive properties of their lethal product end up in jail. Lying about a product which kills millions of people seems a tad more serious to me. As for Fannie & Freddie, if they are really spending millions of dollars to get op-ed pieces in the Washington Times, then they'll manage to go broke no matter how much help they get from Washington. But as it stands, the allegation is a little nebulous. And if you're seriously looking for influence peddling stories, there is probably more fertile ground. Maybe a better place to start would be the tobacco companies. Only please, take the story to CNN, not CNBC <g>