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

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (12739)	11/4/1998 4:05:00 PM
From: Johnathan C. Doe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

I think if I were teaching my children what the lesson to learn about Clinton's behavior is; I would tell them that you should be honest when you are being fairly dealt with by a fair and honest system, but in the real adult world and particularly the world of politics; you enemies will try to use every dirty tactic available to them to discredit and undermine you and they will abuse any legitimate system of our society as a political weapon and in such circumstances, you fight dirty as well or you'll get your clock cleaned. I would teach them that back in the 80's the Democrats tried to be nice and upstanding when the Republican's fought them with dirty attack ads and they lost big. I would teach them that the lesson learned was that you have to fight for what you believe in and if one side fights dirty, you have to fight dirty in return. This is the great lesson the Dem's learned and Clinton did it well in '92. They attack; you attack. I would teach them that in life, there are special circumstances like political moments where telling the truth can be the worst thing you can do. I would teach them that in corporate politics, you often don't speak the truth because the office politics and the power politics are such that speaking the truth can either can you fired or demoted. I would teach my kids that telling the truth is a judgement call. It is best to tell the truth at all times except when a judgment call indicates that there are larger issues involved and your enemies are using the imperative of tell the truth as a weapon against you. In those cases, it may well be appropriate not to tell the truth.