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

To: Liatris Spicata who wrote (5852)	9/15/1998 2:55:00 PM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 13994

Starr has obtained 14 convictions during the course of his investigations Starr obtained a bunch of convictions of low-level corruption of Arkansas that had nothing to do with the President and nothing to do with Whitewater. Maybe 3 convictions have any connection to the President: McDougal/Hale were convicted of Whitewater. Hubbell was a federal official convicted of billing fraud. You call that worth 40 million dollars? C'mon. Starr is reportedly a man of the highest honor and rectitude. Being a fellow alumnus of an institution Starr went to, I have no doubt that he is a stand-up guy. The problem is that he is being used by a ton of people and he has failed to recognize it and put a stop to it. His prosecutors are a bunch of attack dogs, who don't know the difference between prosecuting a county sheriff and prosecuting the President of the United States. When you go after the President, you do not wage a "scorched earth" war. And that is exactly what they have done. Moreover, Starr appears to be oblivious to the patent efforts of his allies to use whatever means to "get" the Clintons. Starr is the beneficiary (unwilling or not) of a concerted effort (yes, a conspiracy) to get Clinton: Jones, Rutherford Institute, Richard Mellon Scaiffe, Emmett Tyrell, the American Spectator, Larry Klayman, David Bossidy, Dan Burton, Jerry Falwell. It's all an intricate web of possibly coordinated efforts to squeeze the President until he popped. He did pop, and Starr is now reaping the benefits of that. Does that make Starr a honorable man? Not in my book. If you get into bed with these people, you deserve to have your reputation tarnished. Anybody on this thread familiar with how the European parliamentary democracies have responded when a PM was as scandal-ridden as the President of the United States? Oddly enough, more Europeans support Clinton than Americans do. In fact, they can't understand why we're going through this stupidity. The French, for example, have no problem with the fact that Francois Mitterand not only maintained an affair for years, he even bore children out of that relationship. It was well-known among the press, and it was never reported until his illegitimate daughter was allowed to mourn publicly after FM's death. As for other parlimentary systems, Israel has a prime minister in Netanyahu who is the equal of Clinton in being beset by scandal. He admitted affairs, he tried to cover up the failed assassination of a Hamas official, and he's never been stronger politically. In Japan, it is well-known that premiers have had lovers on the side. In England, lovers on the side a de rigueuer, but the Fleet Street gossip pages are now very aggressive about reporting it now, so it has gone underground. Doughboy.