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

To: Doughboy who wrote (6326)	9/17/1998 11:18:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 13994

It isn't just xenophobes how distrust the IMF. They just aren't trustworthy. They WON'T explain why they do what they do. They aren't honest about how much capital they have so you can't make a reasonable judgement about how much they need. When they screw up there is no accountability. I agree the US needs to exercise leadership. Giving money to the IMF hoping against hope that they will fix things isn't leadership.

To: Doughboy who wrote (6326)	9/17/1998 11:24:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Respond to of 13994

Doug, agree with you 100%. This is EXACTLY the fallout of the Starr/Clinton confrontation which is insufferable. We live in a larger world than the embarassment Clinton tried to protect himself from. We live in a far larger world than the puritanical hunt for the devil Starr is chasing. This disease of accusation and truth is not raising the moral fabric of America, it is putting it in the gutter. The world is taking notice, we look like fools... as we argue cigars and underwear, the world is on fire.

To: Doughboy who wrote (6326)	9/17/1998 11:55:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

The time has come to end this sandbox squabble. The whole of Starr's arguments don't warrant our dragging the Congress, the Senate, the American people and the world into the gutter. This road is wrong for the future of this country, the rest of the world senses its wrong and is letting us know loud and clear. Starr's single minded, blind ambition to win his mission has spread a pornographic sensationalism of high office around the world. That was Starr's decision alone, there were countless other ways to demonstrate the President's lying if Starr had a wit of moral decency. He doesn't, he's on a mission and nothing will stand in his way.. not even Bermuda shorts. The President deserves our disrespect and perhaps he deserves censure for his immorality, he may deserve justice in other forms after he leaves office. He knew it was wrong to use the symbolic center of this country's power to hanky pank around with an intern. But is lying about sex, lying about covering up sex, perjury to cover sex the kind of crime we impeach for. I don't think so. Intention is everything. His intention was to get it on with a young woman behind closed doors. He was stupid and blind not to read the address of the motel they were cavorting about in.. but that's not a crime against the American system of government nor is it a crime against the American people who should hold religeous and moral tolerance even higher in situations like this. Its a poor legal argument, but I also feel there's an acknowledged unwritten code of ethics that supports deceiving anyone prying into personal private matters, even the government doesn't have the right to open your bedroom door and ask how you do it.. The rights of privacy must be extended even to the President, it can't be considered any other way in a democracy.. he is no higher and he's certainly no lower than the rest of us. The crimes were crimes of passion and lust... this country long ago dismissed the notion that these were crimes otherwise we'd live in a constant state of chaos which we are experiencing today.