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

To: pezz who wrote (8941)	10/11/1998 12:37:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Hi pezz; Regarding apologizing &c... I told someone the other day that I had never in my life ever regretted having done the right thing. On the other hand, I have often ruminated over having done something wrong, sometimes decades later. I think you agree with me: happiness in life is simple. Just try to do the right thing, and you will feel a better. Even if it is inconvenient or embarrassing. Earlier this year I got so mad at an employer that I quit, giving them 90 minutes notice. This was after the other electrical engineer on the project had quit, so I left them with no remaining EE talent for their big new product. That was on a Thursday. By the weekend, I realized that I had done something a little nasty, so I went back, apologized (the company had gone into shock after I quit) and wrote a contract to complete both my work and the other engineer's. Signed it Monday evening, and started work again that night. That company (which will remain unnamed) is still run by total morons, and I expect them to be bankrupt in a couple years or so. But I would have had some difficulty living with myself if I had left them in the lurch, as I almost did. I see the ability to admit an error before it becomes a disaster as one of the primary elements of character. I am sure that if Clinton had admitted to his little sex problem early on, (and avoided misleading under oath) he would feel a lot better about himself now, and his reputation would be better, too. -- Carl

To: pezz who wrote (8941)	10/11/1998 1:41:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

pezz, let me see if I can figure out what you're saying. Michelle tells me that she has no respect for me, finds me classless and that I dole out no respect. I agree that I, too, feel the same way about her. Then you call my response pathetic. Michelle posts several times about someone being too fat and ugly to get a highly prestigious job and she calls me classless and you want me to apologize to Michelle for agreeing with her that we do not respect each other! If you are going to be the one to try to negotiate some sort of truce, may I suggest that you either read all the posts first so that you're more familiar with how we got to where we are today or at least negotiate a cease fire from all parties. I'm willing to stipulate that I've been a part of a heated battle. I'm not willing to stipulate that only I need to apologize! If you want to broker a bilateral apology, then I'm willing to agree to that. A unilateral apology when there were two people involved in the war just won't work.