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To: tejek who wrote (148195)	7/13/2002 5:04:09 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573020

The truth is is that Clinton is a very bright man who did some real good but unfortunately, is fatalistically human and is in need of serious therapy. My complaint is less with Clinton* (impeached) and more about Clinton apologists. I can accept that he ran a failed presidency, that the cost to the nation is incalculable, and even that he lied. It is difficult to accept that people will continue to look past all this and suggest that it didn't happen, that they were eight great years, etc. They WERE NOT eight great years. Politically, they were the worst eight years in modern times. Look, I can see the good in liberalism. I'm quite liberal myself in some respects. But the basic premises of liberalism are, unfortunately, destructive to our nation. And that, to me, is intolerable. I would feel this way if you were doing the same to R. Nixon who, in fact, deserves it more.* Well, I totally disagree. Now, Nixon lied to the American people and deserved to be ousted from office. But his transgressions and abuses of power were nowhere near the level of Clinton's. In terms of damage to the nation, Clinton's administration was far and away worse than Nixon's (for that matter, so was LBJ's). That's not to apologize for Nixon. He was a liar, and as such, should have been ousted. But the Democrats' failure to convict Clinton during the impeachment was among the sorriest occurrences in American politics during my lifetime (and then to put Gore up as a candidate merely compounded the felony). At least Nixon had the decency to spare the nation the further agony of impeachment. Clinton, on the other hand, didn't have the decency to resign. The point is that it is reasonable for you to anticpate that conservatives won't forget what Clinton did for a long, long time. My criticism of Clinton IS severe, because the damage he did to the nation was (is) severe, and it will require decades for us to recover. With Nixon, the guy at least showed some element of contrition a few years later. There seems no hope Clinton will ever do the same (although it could happen).