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Politics : Should Clinton resign? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (139)	9/12/1998 3:31:00 PM
From: D PARKER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 567

Blackmailing the President: Clinton is vulnerable because of this scandal and many others. If a military pilot of nukes can be discharged for this vulnerability, so can the Commander in Chief. Remember: equal protection under the law, All men are created equal, etc. Should the President be held less accountable than an ordinary citizen? If so, what would that do to our system of justice? What would it make the office of the President? (quotes from Starr report) In a recorded conversation later on October 6, Ms. Lewinsky said she wanted two things from the President. The first was contrition: He needed to "acknowledge . . . that he helped fuck up my life."(585) The second was a job, one that she could obtain without much effort: "I don't want to have to work for this position . . . . I just want it to be given to me."(586) Ms. Lewinsky decided to write the President a note proposing that the two of them "get together and work on some way that I can come out of this situation not feeling the way I do."(587) After composing the letter, she said: "I want him to feel a little guilty, and I hope that this letter did that."(588) -------------------- "[V]ery frustrated" over her inability to get in touch with the President to discuss her job situation, Ms. Lewinsky wrote him a peevish letter on July 3, 1997.(500) Opening "Dear Sir," the letter took the President to task for breaking his promise to get her another White House job.(501) Ms. Lewinsky also obliquely threatened to disclose their relationship. If she was not going to return to work at the White House ------------------- Although not questioned about this particular letter, the President testified that he believed Ms. Lewinsky might disclose their intimate relationship once he stopped it. In Ms. Lewinsky's recollection, their meeting began contentiously, with the President scolding her: "[I]t's illegal to threaten the President of the United States."(511) He then told her that he had not read her July 3 letter beyond the "Dear Sir" line; he surmised that it was threatening because Ms. Currie looked upset when she brought it to him. (Ms. Lewinsky suspected that he actually had read the whole thing.)(512) Ms. Lewinsky complained about his failure to get her a White House job after her long wait. Although the President claimed he wanted to be her friend, she said, he was not acting like it. Ms. Lewinsky began weeping, and the President hugged her. While they hugged, she spotted a gardener outside the study window, and they moved into the hallway by the bathroom.(513) There, the President was "the most affectionate with me he'd ever been," Ms. Lewinsky testified. He stroked her arm, toyed with her hair, kissed her on the neck, praised her intellect and beauty.(514) In Ms. Lewinsky's recollection: [H]e remarked . . . that he wished he had more time for me. And so I said, well, maybe you will have more time in three years. And I was . . . thinking just when he wasn't President, he was going to have more time on his hands. And he said, well, I don't know, I might be alone in three years. And then I said something about . . . us sort of being together. I think I kind of said, oh, I think we'd be a good team, or something like that. (end of quotes)

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (139)	9/12/1998 3:38:00 PM
From: jelrod3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 567

THROW CIGARS AT HIM! Whenever and whereever he shows up for another phony baloney speech or public appearance, I hope he gets bombarded with cigars from the audience. It is a sad, sad commentary that our society has been so "dumbed down" that we are willing to tolerate PERJURY (uh, that's lying under oath, which is a felony, for those of you who cut class the day this was taught in 9th grade Civics class) from our President. But then again, more than enough people felt sorry for the Menendez brothers because they no longer had a Mom and Dad, and an even greater number were happy to see OJ cut loose. Impeach him, I say, and then go after the rest of the crooks and crum bums that occupy space in Washington, DC. And then, for good measure, start working on the crooks and liars in every state capitol to boot. Oh, how I wish...

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (139)	9/12/1998 4:48:00 PM
From: Bald Man from Mars	Respond to of 567

Bill Clinton - conduct unbecoming of a President ... Bill, for the good of this country, please resign as soon as possible ...

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (139)	9/12/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: thomas hayden	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 567

Ground Zero, the country has already taken a grave turn for the worse when people such as yourself don't want to hold the president accountable for lying. Even Bill Clinton feels that way after I read his comments on Nixon. Oh, I forgot, the Bill Clinton double standard. When it applies to someone else and it is for his gain it applies, but when the story turns and he is the main actor than everything changes. If you or I lied under oath in front of a court what would happen. The same should apply to Bill Clinton. I also hope he doesn't have another momentary lapse of judgement when his finger is on the button. Getting back to that double standard, it is interesting how bad tobacco is and he is going to save the country by putting that evil industry out of business. Yet the man loves cigars. If he couldn't have Cigars his sex life would go way down hill. Our country has already taken a turn for the worse, we all have a president none of us can be proud of and every country around the world is laughing at us. Look for a U.S. led war to break out any day.