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

To: Bill who wrote (4665)	9/22/1998 1:09:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Something else. I think it would be a real travesty if a former President were jailed for anything other than the most heinous crimes. Treason, sure. Murder, sure. But not this sort of thing. Or even Nixon's sort of thing. Though I really, really disliked Nixon, I felt the same thing about him, even at the time. Strongly. I don't think its appropriate for the burden for this to fall solely upon the succeeding Vice President. I think it should be a social value. Perhaps a sense of Congress that the President should do so. I imagine that would be too much to ask of this Congress, but I hope not. Why do I say this? Because the damage and disgrace is bad enough either way if the President goes through impeachment hearings. And the social rancor is just not worth it to exact more. My concern is much less for the President than the social fabric. The President's most ardent supporters will feel truly, deeply violated. Some might even be moved to violence. I certainly think that might well have happened if Nixon had been jailed. His ardent partisans would have felt it was grossly too much and some of them perhaps done who knows what? Its not the path toward civil discourse between opposing political and other philosophies. Doug