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

To: Johnathan C. Doe who wrote (12662)	11/4/1998 1:04:00 AM
From: MR. PANAMA (I am a PLAYER)	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

I used to admire Hatch but if that is true then ...Down da Hatch fer him....kiss me asstch...hahaha

To: Johnathan C. Doe who wrote (12662)	11/4/1998 12:56:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>Barney Frank got some great whacks at them over the religious right that many Republican moderates are seeing is wrecking them as a party.< No doubt Barney Frank whacks quite a few things, but there is nothing of consequence here, certainly no honor; and that he and the President can so gleefully and openly wink at their sort of filth is no commentary on the so-called Religious Right. It is a commentary on those who support Frank and the President. We have now argued before our children that when our judicial system trains its attention toward a certain matter, some defendants in that system can lie without a serious threat of punishment, this, depending on the nature of the matter. We have argued that flagrant lies about adultery and repeated adultery itself are acceptable even in our highest leaders, and that these things do not much matter where leadership is concerned. We have ardently defended the inconsistency extant in teaching our children the value of faithfulness and honesty, and supporting a President who is unfaithful and dishonest. We have done all these things while expecting our children to accept for themselves the virtues of faithfulness and honesty, while also accepting the representation of leaders who are the antithesis of these virtues. What we have here, whether one accepts it or not, is a nation of adults who have lost self-respect and the respect of their children. When one cheers the victory of flagrantly immoral representatives, one merely betrays a lack of honor and principle. Principle tells us that once the court trains its attention toward a matter, whatever it is, that the defendant is bound by law to answer truthfully, without arrogating to himself the right to alter the meanings of commonly understood words. It tells us that in cases where infractions against our system occur, the power of justice has shifted unfairly toward the culprit until his crimes are investigated, catalogued, analyzed and presented to him so that he might admit his errors and once again champion the goodness of the system. I do not speak here of a rigid legal absolutism, but of a recognition that our country cannot gloss over flagrant and willful error in its President. Whatever the punishment assigned to the President, principle requires we restore the equilibrium of our moral and legal systems by using them to confront the President, demanding he admit their goodness and his error in breaking them. Regardless of last night's Democrat victory, principle ever remains on my side, and so when the likes of the very much unprincipled Barney Frank takes a "whack" at me, he merely does what his nature demands. People of principle will not be impressed. They expect snakes to lie close to the ground. >God Bless the Religious Right; we'll have Dem's in office in a majority again with their help.< Even were all the offices in the land filled by Democrats, there would be no victory for our country. So I am hardly impressed by the relatively modest gains of the Democrats last night. Even were the Democrats to completely sweep the nation in the year 2000, it would mean quite a bit of nothing to me. I vote according to principle and integrity, and while I will hardly win amongst so many who champion a lying and cheating president, each night when I rest my head next to my glorious wife, I sleep peacefully; and each morning when I rise, I look flatly into my own face. I fight for what I believe not because I actually hope hypocritical Americans will agree with me, in fact I even here have long said they would not, that these elections would not be a boon for Republicans and that Clinton would be very much victorious. I fight simply because principle informs me that adultery, lying, cheating and killing children are all wrong and that no person who willfully supports these things repeatedly, refusing to humble themselves to the principle of integrity, can represent me. I reject Bill Clinton as my leader, and I reject those who support him as worthy of my support. I can do none else, and so when I vote as I do, I do it regardless of the electoral outcome or the opinions of others. I do it not because I am Republican. In fact I am not, and do not really believe in the power of political office to truly effect change. I do it because I must remain true to myself, to my beliefs, to my wife, children, our heritage and legacy. This is important to me, much more important than trivial human politics or attempts at appearing enlightened by embracing all manner of depravity.