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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (423052)	7/4/2003 5:41:27 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Respond to of 769670

Yes, if hypocrisy was a 'high crime', we wouldn't need term limits for any office, and cable would have a 24 hour Impeachment Channel. It is amazing how many politicians believe that hypocrisy is 'simply politics'. For every Clinton, there is a Thurmond, and vice versa.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (423052)	7/4/2003 5:54:11 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>>irresponsibly gambling away millions Ann, how would you feel if he had won millions?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (423052)	7/4/2003 6:07:18 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Yes Anne, hypocrisy and dishonesty knows no party, yet the really big crimes these days are on the Republican side. Sorry but it's true. Bennett was a hypocritical blow-hard and deserves to be finished now. But at least he was preaching decent things. CLinton's sex life was a shameful thing and hurt his family and followers, but it didn't cost you or me our lives, any money, our health care, education or ability to achieve the American Dream. It was just a tabloid scandal brought to you by the partisan prosecutor, looking where he had no business looking in the first place. What did Whitewater have to do with Clinton's sex life, after all? Nothing. The phony energy crisis ripoffs engineered by the Bushie boys in Texas has been costing us plenty. It hurt the entire economy. It took real dollars from every one of us under false pretenses. And it's mainly costing those who can afford it least. Not just in California but across the nation. Because without California leading the way the US economy will sputter. The Iraq War is also beginning to cost us big-time in terms of lives, deficits and credibility globally. Both the energy crisis ripoffs and the Iraq War were schemes which greatly enrich Bush's closest corporate allies but cost everyone else. And both were deliberately carried out on a foundation of lies and exaggerations. You can also bet if there are investigations there will be cover-ups, just like Enron shred documents. The guilty parties will cover their tracks, run and hide. Time will tell if the Iraq War did us any good or not. So far, not a bit. But we hope something good will come out of it to make it worth the probably trillion dollar price-tag when all is said and done, plus 1000 or more lives. But the phony energy crisis cost us all dearly, and continues to cost us as energy prices are pumped up and kept high, a hidden tax on us all. As they say, what's good for Texas ain't good for America. As they are proving. And will continue to prove.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (423052)	7/5/2003 12:39:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Bill Bennett's taking profits from books that preached the glory of virtues while irresponsibly gambling away millions... I don't defend gambling (in fact I am against gambling, even Bingo, the Lottery and very much of what goes on in the stock market, this, for spiritual reasons), but I do not think most people who criticize Bennett have thought through their response to him. Can one preach virtue and yet gamble responsibly? I think they certainly can because gambling in itself is not naturally immoral. Indeed, it is part of natural human life. We ought not get carried away by the apparently large numbers involved with the Bennett case. The principles involved are at issue. Bennett's loss of a million dollars could be the equivalent of my loss of a $10 raffle ticket at the county fair. But is my gambling the $10 irresponsible? Does it forbid my ever preaching virtue? When Aunt Mable loses $30 at Bingo is she being immoral simply for the gambling? Not at all. Irresponsibility takes place when an action causes one to infringe upon the rights of another. Bennett apparently absorbs his losses without doing any such thing. I nevertheless do not think Bennett was wise in his gambling because the industry of casino gambling is too infested with people who infringe upon human rights as a matter of course. Bennett is guilty by association, but only by association. Such guilt is quite false. But that fact just does not matter to most people. There is no hypocrisy in Bennet here. He simply thought his attempts at discretion would be enough to overcome the moral ignorance of society. He was obviously wrong.