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

To: Redman who wrote (342)	9/15/1998 1:15:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 567

<<Let me ask you a question: Was it not in the back of your mind why he sent missiles into Sudan and Afghan at that point in time ?? Although it could have been the right call(COULD have been), I still think every American will continue to question everything he does. You need trust in a leader, he does not have it. Also, because of this Bubba can never again speak to kids about morality and doing what is right. How can we have a president who cannot speak to these things which SHOULD make up the fabric of our society and country???? >> With respect to the missile strike, no, I never thought for a moment it was motivated by anything other than a desire to strike at terrorism. How effective it was on that is another matter. It did occur to me of course that some would question his motives and timing under the circumstances. But it is impossible to marshal the people he had behind the action, from the Defense Secretary, to the military leaders, to Albright, etc., etc., unless it was all on the up and up. I have a lot of respect for Clinton in areas other than his sexual morality. I think with respect to that he clearly thinks his power, position, magnetism, whatever, allow he some sort of right to have had multiple affairs. I think that's very wrong, particularly while he is President. I think he has finally gotten that message. There is no justification for what he has put us through. However, and illustration of what I am talking about is the speech he gave yesterday at the Counsel on Foreign Relations. That was the best discourse, not to mention speech, I have ever heard on the current world financial crisis. Whether he wrote the whole thing or not he probably had a strong hand in it; he generally does. And he REALLY understands these things. As he did just what it would take to get peace in Ireland, etc. He is the smartest, and the most creative, President I think since Kennedy. People talk about how good he is in town meeting type sessions. They say its a political gift. Well, I guess you can talk about it that way. I think what it really is, is his evident warmth for people of all sorts, which the electorate can very much feel and which cannot be faked, and his very keen and creative intelligence and his deep and enormously wide command of policy issues, background, and history. The guy knows his stuff tremendously more than Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, or Nixon did. (Nixon knew heaps about foreign policy issues, and it showed, but much less elsewhere.) I like the guy. He is no "Bubba" to me. I don't like his reckless, banal and sordid affair with Monica Lewinsky in the White House at all. Not one little bit. Doug