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

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (13777)	11/8/1998 1:39:00 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 67261

>Every woman in the world is somebody's daughter.< And every woman should be treated with respect, this, at the very least because she is someone else's daughter. Merely because Lewinsky was too immature to have self-respect gave Clinton no reason to exploit her to satiate his lusts. >Lewinsky was 25, a college graduate and everything.< From what I have read, she was 21 at her fling's beginning. You know, 21, barely a legal adult, when young people do the stupidest things in their attempts to learn how to negotiate the world. Perhaps you would respond that the world is cruel, and you would have a point, but it seems reasonable that amongst all people, save for one's parents, the President would have had enough integrity and dignity not to take advantage of this star struck girl. For crying out loud, Lewinsky kept her soiled blue dress no doubt because it contained the DNA of the President of the United States. Our children will make mistakes, and it seems there should be some adults in this country other than our relatives that we should be able to trust not to take advantage of them when they do. It is not unreasonable to expect the President of the United States to be amongst these people. >College, you know, where people move away from home and learn to make certain basic decisions and live with the consequences. Old enough to be responsible for her own actions.< And so you argue once a child has filtered through the university, she is fair game to be exploited and then trashed should she stupidly allow herself to fall into the hands of the President of the United States. I see the problem. I yet try to attach dignity to the Presidency and I yet expect character and respect from the person fortunate enough to hold that office. You do not. Yours is the prevalent view, and this is another reason why I have little respect for my countrymen. >This "child molestation" innuendo is silly.< It is a far more accurate description than your view of the matter, the lunatic view that the President had no moral obligation to protect Lewinsky as one of his charges, this, especially from himself. Dear me, man. Try to understand what you are saying. He was the President, and she was an intern-- an intern. Bill Clinton, the husband of Hillary, the President of the United States, was running around, using Betty Currie, to get blow jobs in a closet with a friggin intern. This country has no shame at all. But the worst of it is that when faced with the matter, Bill Clinton lied. He lied flagrantly and repeatedly both to the public and to the courts. He continues to lie today, and this is inexcusable. >Her mother was probably fully informed on the matter, too, the way things look.< Merely because a mother is willing to allow a man to sleep with her young daughter, does not mean the man has moral recourse to do so. Some mothers are nitwits. Merely because a mother is a nitwit does not free anyone else to be a nitwit. I do not want to argue with you on this. It is impossible for you to change my views on the matter, and I sincerely am not interested in changing yours. I am right, and you are wrong, regardless of whether or not you change your abominable views. You may wallow in filth until you vomit, and I will simply walk past you, using your example as I do currently to show my children the nature of the sub-human dreg. The point I wanted to make public, and now make again, is that I am one who holds some puritanical values, and yet who makes no terrible issue of Clinton's past indiscretions. We all make mistakes, and if a lawbreaker sincerely asks forgiveness, I will be amongst the first to grant it. It is Clinton's current and ongoing indiscretions that abhor me. It is because of these that he is unworthy of respect.