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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dougjn who wrote (2918)	9/15/1998 6:17:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Dougjn - given your reasoning, we should rewrite our law to accept perjury because, as you claim, other countries wouldn't "humilate [sic] their leader this way." I fail to understand why you feel the laws of other nations have superior legal stature to our constitution. Mr. K.

To: dougjn who wrote (2918)	9/15/1998 6:38:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Totally agree with this statement.

To: dougjn who wrote (2918)	9/15/1998 7:32:00 PM
From: cody andre	Respond to of 67261

The American nation humiliated by its own blindness to this crook. Clinton cannot be humiliated because he is amoral - no absolute standards except his own hedonistic pleasures and power.

To: dougjn who wrote (2918)	9/16/1998 6:50:00 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

>In no other country in the world would their President, or national leader, be humilated in this way for these reasons.< And there is no country in the world as great as America. For some of us in the world, the President is not just a machine. Some of us expect, indeed demand he be honorable. Is there a system of belief under which every single American is governed, a system to which every single cognitive human American entity is held accountable, a system that governs our actions uniformly? Yes. That system is called American law. It is the only system to which we all uniformly bow. It is the religion of our state, and you propose we cavalierly allow a man to smugly break it. It would be a worse outrage than the O.J. Simpson verdict. At least in that case, it was remotely plausible that Furhman was a racist who planted evidence, and that the bungling LAPD allowed the evidence to become tainted. In the Clinton case, we have seen his perjury with our own eyes. >In every other country in the world their President, or national leader, may well have engaged in similar adulterous conduct with a young woman "intern" or similar attached to the Presidential offices. At at some point in the past such national leaders in every country undoubtedly have. And the citizens of all these countries know that.< And the mediocrity of all these countries speaks for itself. >What is remarkable here is that we allow such public humilation for so very, very little. Sometimes a little international, and historical, perspective is valuable.< Yes, and this precisely to show us how not to be. If you do not like our approach to morality, sir, move to France. I am certain they will just love you there. (With a 50% general tax rate, and the best unemployment record in the west, I'm sure they will just love you to literally to death).