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Politics : Should Clinton resign? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HRAKA who wrote (416)	9/18/1998 2:52:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 567

Spare me the manly lecture. And contemplate this: Gore's got his own problems. If Clinton is hounded from office, Gore may follow soon enough. And constitutionally, guess who's next in line? Who mercifully went underground, more or less, when it turned out nobody particularly liked his style? Yes, Newt. Who elected him? His poll numbers suck. But, Gore could choose a new Vice President. Subject to confirmation. I'm sure such confirmation would be speedy. So Clinton got caught, in a particularly sleezy personal transgression. Whether Starr was out of line or not. Which, considering how much everybody knew about every little step in his "secret" grand jury proceedings, he certainly was. The transgression had nothing to do with any presidential duties. Denying it to defend himself from the witch hunt was illegal, true. But again, so much lying under oath takes place, somebody's got to explain to me why this case is somehow different. Everybody bent over backward to give Ronald Reagan more than a fair shake on Iran-Contra. An affair that involved real abuse of executive power. Bill Clinton has been hounded by an industry of haters ever since he entered office. After years of trying to draw blood out of a turnip on Whitewater, Starr finally got him on a strictly personal matter. In a curiously inquisitional fashion, considering how Lewinsky's cooperation was secured. Yes, Clinton got caught. He was stupid. As I said when I first broke in here, in a parliamentary system, he'd be gone. In our system, somebody's got to tell me where we're going to get out of this mess before I join the chorus. Cheers, Dan. P.S. Here's an ironic followon for you: House Republicans Thursday asked the FBI to investigate whether a spate of sex scandal reports about members of Congress constitutes an orchestrated campaign of intimidation against lawmakers deciding whether to pursue an impeachment inquiry into President Clinton. House Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas) said he was concerned that Salon magazine's report of Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde's extramarital affair 30 years ago, as well as recent embarrassing revelations about other lawmakers, represents an concerted attempt by White House aides or Clinton allies to smear and intimidate key lawmakers. -- Alan Elsner, Reuters (http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/filters/bursts/0,3422,2139002,00.html) Or perhaps the FBI could investigate where the continuous stream of leaks from the "secret" grand jury proceedings came from. Nah, that's completely different.