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

To: Who, me? who wrote (4019)	9/20/1998 6:32:00 PM
From: Hiram Walker	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 67261

Who me, I really think its time for a Civil War. I think its time to start a second revolution,no nation has stayed under one form of government this long,this country is due to be shredded. The Constitution says that Congress shall impeach only for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." The President's lawyers are on firm ground when they assert, "The impeachment clause was designed to protect our country against a President who was using his official powers against the nation, against the American people, against our society. It was never designed to allow a political body to force a President from office for a very personal mistake." This inquiry has been driven by politics from the start. Kenneth Starr is a partisan conservative Republican who has been the spearhead of an unprincipled, well-funded attack on the Administration almost from the moment it took office. Lest we forget: Starr, former chief of staff to Reagan Attorney General William French Smith, was chosen for his current job in 1994 by a three-judge panel that itself was selected by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who would preside over the Senate in the event of an impeachment trial. Starr considered writing an amicus brief to advance Paula Jones's case against the President. Starr continued, as a million-dollar-a-year lawyer, to represent the tobacco industry while investigating Clinton and planned to accept a Richard Mellon Scaife-funded deanship at Pepperdine University until a national uproar forced him to give it up. And Starr's office is under investigation for the unprofessional and possibly illegal manner in which it leaked information designed to damage the President. Whether it achieves its goal of inspiring Clinton's impeachment, Starr's investigation has succeeded beyond its originators' wildest dreams. It has crippled the Administration and the Democratic Party. What the conservatives could not stop by election they have thwarted by investigation. This Congress saw no important legislation passed on tobacco and children, education, childcare, minimum wage or campaign finance reform. Not much planning for the future appears to be under way in the White House, as Democrats run for cover in hopes of surviving what could be major Republican gains come November. More significant, however, is the damage that Starr and his team have done to time-honored constitutional prerogatives and common decency. President Clinton's right to privacy has been shredded. Starr has used his unlimited powers to threaten White House staff and to intimidate Lewinsky and her family. He has eviscerated the right of attorney-client privilege for public officials, and he has abused the grand jury system. And the hymn-singing, Bible-quoting Starr has produced the best-read piece of Puritan pornography in human history. In his zeal to remove the President, he has transformed the American political process into an exercise in voyeurism. Enough of this verbal warfare,lets get down to real killing,like Bush and Reagan did in Iran and Iraq. Hey they were only towelheads right, who cares? they are not human anyway? Women and children do not matter because they are muslim right? Wrong!!Dead Wrong!! Hiram

To: Who, me? who wrote (4019)	9/20/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Who, me? yes you!!!:o) It could be considered unbecoming if the subject wasn't so serious & important to our nation. IMO it's not the time to be concerned about diplomacy, only unearthing the truth behind this masquerade. I'm a political moderate. Been trying to hear both sides on the "to impeach or not to impeach" debate. Tomorrow's video just might provide a quick solution to the whole mess. To my mind the choices are: 1) reprimand Pres. Clinton in a way that somehow helps to return respect for the office of the Presidency OR 2)impeach him and turn over the government for the foreseeable future(Gore's not capable of getting elected) to those whose philosophy of life resembles that of the Ayotollah Komeini(sp?) It's a difficult decision.(P.S. I've watched the "Sunday go-to-meeting" crowd close up for many years -- the frequency of hypocrisy isn't pretty) Ann