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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (25000)	9/21/1998 12:11:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, congratulations on the 25,000th post!! I guess you and I will never agree on dignity and integrity in public officials, but still someone had to snare it, so great!! I think people enter public service mostly to SERVE their cities, counties, states and countries. Certainly the pay is really lousy compared to what these people, most of whom are attorneys, could earn in the private sector. I am sure that power often corrupts, but I don't think it always has to do so. I listened to a lot of television this weekend, and the essential fact that Bill Clinton lied in a civil sexual harassment case to deliberately deprive the plaintiff of her legal rights has somehow been lost by most people who are discussing what is going on with this situation. Then, while under investigation, he used incredibly poor judgment in entering into another sexual relationship in the workplace with a subordinate, who was an intern when the relationship started. A private sexual matter? I am sure I speak for almost everyone in America on all sides of the issue when I say that I WISH he had a sex life which was not so compulsive and self-destructive that it became public. What I would like to know from you, Steve, is where we are going when we start with cynicism in government? It seems that it quickly leads to a very bad place, where we have no expectations. Even though we are then seldom disappointed, what does it say to our children? A fifteen-year-old boy's attorney this week used Clinton as an example that it is human nature to lie, to try to get his client off the hook. How can we teach morals and ethics if we don't even have some standard by which to judge deviation?