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

To: Machaon who wrote (7885)	10/8/1998 12:33:00 AM
From: Borzou Daragahi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

Y'know, if you read some of the stuff in the report and in the papers, it really isn't about sex. It's about a stupid venal man--Clinton--trying to weasel his way out of an uncomfortable personal situation by using the powers of his office. Simple as that. And during the impeachment hearings, they're not going to talk about sex or cigars or whatever. They're gonna talk about phone calls, conversations, and meetings after the affair was over. It's the coverup, stupid. And they may or may not get enough votes to impeach him. If he were a CEO of a company he would either be fired or demoted or most likely, asked to resign. But he's not gonna resign. He's too much of an egotist. It would also cause the Dow to drop 2000 points, or do people disagree with that? So what does he do instead? Dig in his heel and galvanize all the loonies, get all the rightwing psychos all hot and bothered and ready to rape the country. Clinton--by his stupidity, dishonesty, and by making a lot of very incriminating phone calls immediately after he testified in the Paula Jones deposition--put the ugliest elements in our society in a position to fire or impeach him and then impose their theocratic values on the normal people. So I find myself, of all people, someone who has never ever voted for the jerk nor liked him, actually coming to his defense, not because of his politics or God forbid, his character, but because I fear his enemies more than I dislike him. Yuppie jet trash that he is, he's still better than the American Ayatollahs.

To: Machaon who wrote (7885)	10/8/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: j_b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<< It gets so tiring reading the same deception, that it wasn't about sex. This is the Republican smoke and mirrors attempt to fool the public into thinking that their aim is not to overthrow our democratically elected leader.>> Which is it? Is it all about sex, or all about removing Clinton? Those are two different things. At any rate, if it's all about sex, what sex crime is Clinton charged with? Which article of impeachment will be brought against him dealing with sex? The smoke and mirrors seem to be the tool you are using to obscure the issue - perjury undermines our judicial system, and the stream of lying from the President affects the credibility of the country as a whole. Enough to warrant impeachment? That's a different question.