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

To: halfscot who wrote (217)	9/13/1998 4:27:00 PM
From: dougjn	Respond to of 567

Thanks halfscot. Let me make clear that I too think Clinton should be impeached and removed from office if he knowingly solicited illegal foreign campaign contributions. That conduct would clearly be an important abuse of his office, that goes to the integrity of the election process. Stuff like soliciting contributions from the wrong phone (in the office as opposed to the residential portion of the White House, for example) just doesn't cut it, to my mind, however. Too technical, too unimportant, no significant real or potential harm. Also, there's the issue that the law relating to the location of phone solicitations isn't clear. (Where does a phone solicitation occur? Where the call originates, or when it is answered?) Nor is its purpose, when applied to phone solicitations (it was a 19th century law that sought to avoid having Congressmen buttonholing federal employees in the employees' own offices). Doug