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

To: micny who wrote (3355)	9/17/1998 10:17:00 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 67261

>[ Causing harm to our system of government through political sabotage is just] >>A<< condition for impeachment, but it isn't the only one! Violating one's oath of office is another, and clearly, Clinton did.< This is the point. People who want to limit grounds of impeachment only to the acts of Richard Nixon (which in their essence are the same acts of Bill Clinton) simply do not know history, apparently have not studied other applications of the impeachment clause, and ostensibly do not view the Presidency and the Constitution in similar high regard as the Founding Fathers. They by default claim the Founding Fathers would approve of a president's acting like a scoundrel, repeatedly breaking the law, this, to deny justice to other Americans, and lying repeatedly to the American people. A preposterous claim. >[It is true that Clinton and Lewinsky's acts were against themselves and against their respective families.] True, up to the point that he perjured himself in the PJ case....then followed that with more perjury, witness tampering etc etc., at which point he consciously abandoned any intent to uphold his oath of office and was clearly acting to subvert the administration of justice.< Precisely, and according to Federalist Paper #65, these incontrovertibly are grounds to impeach him. I would be as vociferous were it just as clearly the case a conservative or moderate president broke the law. The American Presidency ain' no monocky.<g>