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

To: Who, me? who wrote (4132)	9/9/1998 5:28:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 13994

Perhaps we can view the national disgrace that the Clintons have brought us to as similar to finding the bottom of a long fall in the stock market. A wakeup call after a long period of denial. It seems that under the Clintons, our society has grown increasingly calloused and hardened towards wrongdoing. The whole moral relativism idea is now shown to be the idiocy that it always was, now that the Clintons have carried moral relativism to the extreme - embroidering it into the whole fabric of the Executive Branch. It seems that as recently as last January, Clinton shills in the media were content to look the other way, as long as Clinton seemed able to stay in the public's good graces. I really find it difficult if not impossible to believe that very many people in January actually believed Clinton's denials over hours and hours of taped phone conversations of Monica. After the tapes were made public, every single thing that Monica said and did through her attorneys suggested that while she did lie in her affidavit as Bill did in his deposition, she now wished to make things right and tell the truth. It was absolutely revolting to hear, for instance, how the media covered Clinton's trip to that midwestern high school after his blatant denial. You don't hear much of that nonsense anymore, because Billy isn't getting away with throwing spitballs at the teacher anymore. Suddenly the the people cheering on his antics are a little more sober minded, as they begin to realize the depth of the muck into which they've dragged their party to. Perhaps, now that the public sees the absurdly low level to which humans, when encouraged, can sink to with reckless abandon, they are thinking that now might be a good time to take a new look at the virtues of morality, sincerity, and truth - which are all intertwined. For our society's sake, I hope this is true, and hope it continues.