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

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (2448)	8/22/1998 12:17:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

Regarding: Those who want to play had better have extremely thick skins and a Mother-Teresa past. I think that bringing up a recently deceased near saint is a bit too much in a discussion of the President. Then again, maybe Mother Teresa did pick up a little on the side. But was it with her employees? People who she could fire or order around? Did she fire her travel staff and then justify it by making up lies about what they had done, causing them to be criminally investigated for felonies by the FBI? These are not little mistakes. These are the actions of a group of people who have absolutely no respect for the truth or what is right. They believe exactly what is in their favor to believe, and will continue to believe it as long as it cannot be proved against them. They really just don't care about what the truth is. They also don't care about what the laws are. They only care about avoiding getting caught. I could go on, but it makes me sick to have to look at these things. Sure people make mistakes, but when you make them, you apologize, swear to yourself to never to do that again, and make yourself a better person for it. This is how character is built. It is not an easy process. Clinton has never apologized for anything he has ever done. All he does is generate more lies to cover for the lies he used earlier. He is a "person of the lie." He cannot see his own actions as being shameful and deceitful. He is a pathological liar and an uncontrolled sexual deviant besides. He is not Mother Teresa. He is not even Jimmy Swaggart. Enough of this sad commentary on the depths to which our expectations of personal conduct have descended. Here is some of the speech Socrates gave when he defended himself against the Athenian prosecutor. It gives an idea of what a guy who didn't really care what the polls show will do, and it shows what bravery and dedication to truth and law is all about: I will tell you a story from the law courts, tiresome perhaps, but true. I have never, gentlemen, held any office in the state but one; I was then a Councillor. It happened that the tribe which was presiding was mine, the Antiochis, when you wished -- illegally, as you all agreed afterwards -- to try all the ten generals together (instead of separately) for not gathering up the bodies of the dead after the sea battle (Arginusai 406 BC). Then I alone of the presidents opposed you, and voted against you that nothing should be done contrary to law; and when the orators were ready to denounce me and arrest me on the spot, and you shouted out telling them to do so, I thought it my duty to risk the danger with law and justice on my side, rather than to be on your side for fear of prison and death. This happened while the government was still democratic; and when the oligarchy came in, the Thirty summoned me and four others to the Dome, and ordered us to bring Leon of Salamis from Salamis, whom they meant to put to death. Such things those people used often to do to others, wishing to make as many as possible share their guilt. Then, however, I showed them by acts, not by words, that as for death, if it is not too vulgar to use the expression, I cared not one jot, but all my anxiety was to do nothing unjust or wrong. That government did not terrify me, strong as it was, into doing injustice; but when we came out of the Dome, the other four went to Salamis and brought Leon, but I went away home. And perhaps I should have been put to death for that, if the government had not been overthrown soon. You will find many witnesses of this. Monica had the right phrase for Bill: "The big creep." I really don't want to hear any more suggestions that since we are all equally guilty (but we are not), we should all ignore each other's personal failings. The POTUS is a leader for all of us. His is a position of extreme power. Power tends to corrupt. It is likely to corrupt even those able to distinguish the difference between right and wrong, but it is guaranteed to corrupt those who cannot. So here is my question. Can Bill Clinton distinguish between right and wrong? -- Carl