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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (284723)	4/21/2006 3:12:16 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1586504

Ted, Why does doing the right thing once in a while trump corruption? I figure it'd be a mitigating factor in your condemnation of the man. People who defend Bill Clinton say that his BJ shouldn't have mattered because the economy was strong under his tenure. I don't think a good economy did anything for or against his BJs. I don't think getting BJs from someone when you are married or committed to someone else is a good thing. On the other hand, its your business, not mine what you do. With Clinton, I'll take it one step further and say there is a sickness mixed in with it that has never been addressed. As long as it didn't hinder is job performance, I was okay with it. Another example: the councilman I worked for could never deal with money and he was always having financial problems. He had some weird stuff mixed in with his concept of money and felt that it was bad to be earning as much as he was........so he kept screwing it up. I think that's bad but it didn't change my belief that he was a decent man trying to do a good job. And I was fine with it so long as he didn't mess up the job over it. However, if he had been in place where he controlled money, I would have objected. What I learned from that job is that politicians, like the rest of us, are human. And there is only so much we can expect from them.