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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 (3880)	9/4/1998 11:13:00 AM
From: John Hensley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

DougH- My wife, who is a die-hard Republican, expressed surprise that Clinton was apologizing again. I always thought you might be James Carville!

To: Doughboy who wrote (3880)	9/4/1998 11:53:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

>>was buoyed by Lieberman's comments yesterday and Clinton's "I'm sorry"s this morning. A forced apology is no apology at all. It would be too late even if Clinton hadn't committed illegal acts, which he has. >>She thought the whole scandal was dying out. I'm optimistic, notwithstanding the invective on this thread, that that is what the rest of the public thinks. Not even close, we're just in the eye of the hurricane. Did you see the Reuter's poll? (They were the most accurate in '96.) Almost two thirds of "likely voters" in the upcoming elections have said as of last week that Clinton should either resign or be impeached. That's before all the recent bad news for Slick and before the Starr report, which is expected to be a blockbuster, connecting all the myriad Clinton scandals into a beautiful scandalabra. Cokie Roberts just reported on ABC News that the Dem pols expect far worse to come and predicts that they are about to defect in droves.

To: Doughboy who wrote (3880)	9/4/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Drawing it for seven months has the effect of de-sensitizing people to the subject, especially with the short attention span of mass media. The Republicans, for their part, know they need only wait for the report. They are letting the Democrats and their constituents raise the issue since the Democrats are seeing the scandal erode their hold on Congress. As for the apology, "I'm sorry about it" is not a direct apology to the people who were impacted by it. It is an apology to himself.

To: Doughboy who wrote (3880)	9/4/1998 10:52:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

My wife, who is a die-hard Republican, expressed surprise that Clinton was apologizing again. Bless you, you at least had the sense to marry well. But perhaps you could ask your wife when Clinton apologized the first time. "I regret it" doesn't mean the same thing as "I'm sorry". Neither do "I alone am responsible" and "I take full responsibility" (duh..who else was the perpetrator of the lie? not much choice in taking responsibility.) I find it interesting that Clinton had to go to Ireland to apologise. He didn't have the cajones to apologise directly to the people who he misled.