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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doughboy who wrote (2145)	8/19/1998 9:37:00 PM
From: j_b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Thank you for the correction on who it was - that was why I worded my comments the way I did - I can never keep the fools straight. They all look alike. As to Clinton's presumption of privacy - no President really has any privacy, any more than do sports figures or other entertainers. The press and the public constantly pry into the lives of public figures. Remember, Clinton always thought the investigation was politically motivated, so he would know that anything he did would be used against him. Clinton himself has specialized in using private investigators to dig up dirt to discredit opponents (as I'm sure many others on both sides of the aisle have done), so why would he think others wouldn't try the same tactic (wiring Linda Tripp)?

To: Doughboy who wrote (2145)	8/20/1998 2:55:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

And I think we the people had a reasonable expectation to this being "the most ethical administration...blah blah blah". This is not some two-bit Governorship, he is in one of the most politically powerful positions in the world. A reasonable expectation of privacy is not a Constitutional guarantee in any way, shape or form. Privacy and Presidency are mutually exclusive. To now hide behind the vague issue of personal privacy is a most distorted attempt at creating some new form of privilege. I don't buy it, you shouldn't either. Now read my lips on this one: He gave up a reasonable expectation of privacy years ago, when he ceased being a private citizen and became a public official. Think about it. Who pays for his salary ? One last thing, "his sex life" unless he is having sex all by himself, doesn't belong to him alone. Its already been compromised by whomever he is sharing it with or is present. That portion is no longer his to control or discuss. If she tells, then that's her choice not his, and its her sex life that was shared, to which he has even less claim of expected privacy, since it was never his in the first place. And she blabbed, to her mom, to Linda Tripp, to her old teacher and lover in Oregon, and probably to a whole bunch more.