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To: Slugger who wrote (18116)	9/17/1998 12:50:00 AM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

OT (But what the heck.) >He has lied to the American people, time and time again, and betrayed their trust.< At the time, the US was losing 40,000 lives in a war built upon lie after lie. What Nixon was lying about was about his systematic and illegal use of government agencies and the Office of the President to advance his political ambitions. What's the comparison? Do you seriously believe that America would have thrown Nixon out of office for having an affair and lying about it? Will Congress throw out Henry Hyde for concealing an illicit sexual affair? How about conservatives like Dan Burton? Helen Chenoweth? I don't think so. Nixon had about an 18% popularity rating as the revelations grew to a certainty. Here the American public knows, in excrutiating detail, what the President knew and when he knew it. And 60% still want him in office. Let's shift the example a bit to someone who you may have a more favorable opinion of. Suppose a young, charismatic CEO of a company you owned stock in had just engineered a stunning reversal of corporate fortune, tripling your investment and promising to do much more. Say for the sake of argument that he was a married man with two kids. Further, it turns out that he is having an illicit affair with an intern. For selfish reasons, as well as responsibility to employees and shareholders, he decides not to make this affair public. Later it turns out, he denies the affair in an unrelated legal proceeding ... etc. OK, you get my point. So what do you do? Call for his removal? Sell your stock? Or just say, "Hey he's doing a great job, etc. What do I care what he does with his personal life." Slugger ... ?