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

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (15351)	11/21/1998 3:17:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

>All that the people are saying is that if you want to duke it out with Clinton, please do it at the expense of your time and your money, not at the expense of our money and our time.< In addition to what you have said here, "the people" are saying they are perfectly content to have as their leader a chronic adulterer and flagrant liar as long as he takes care of the plant. "The people" in other words, have compartmentalized into virtual irrelevance the President's character, judging him almost exclusively on how well they think the plant's mechanics are running. They are too myopic to see that while the plant appears to be well-run, the manager has changed its policies so that in the long run it will necessarily come to disaster. It is understandable you cannot perceive this, as you apparently already concede ownership of the lame-brained characteristics represented by your name. >Had you stopped and thought about it in those simple terms, you could have spared yourself (and us) all that verbal diarrhea about how we are becoming an "unprincipled nation" and sundry moralistic sh*t!< The problem here is that these simple thoughts of yours are simple, not at all part of reality and precisely the kinds of simple thoughts one can expect from liberal garbage. When one fails to reject a liar and a cheat as one's president, then one is certainly unprincipled in matters of integrity. Integrity would have compelled one to classify the flagrant liar and cheat in the White House as unworthy of being followed. We are a country that tells its children that honesty, duty and faithfulness are of utmost importance, and yet one that approves a President who is openly dishonest, who thus fails miserably at his duty and who is unfaithful. There is a stunning lack of integrity here, and the long term effect will be a nation that slips further into a greater lack of principle. We are increasingly a nation of unprincipled men, having not courage to judge immoral acts according to basic moral code, instead choosing the easier and yet destructive path of comparing such acts to our own depraved capabilities. In effect we excuse or denounce moral failure on the basis of our own moral bankruptcy. Clinton lied to you, and he lied to your courts. The ramifications of his lies are not merely sexual in nature. They strike at the core of our society. Clinton, you see, lied to deny justice to another American citizen. The nature of that citizen's case and the motives of that citizen or that citizen's supporters are irrelevant. Once Bill Clinton's lies entered the American legal system they became lies designed to corrupt that system. Our legal system is the only system in our country that shines upon king and peasant alike. It is the only system to which we all are equally accountable. The Law is our nation's religion, and Clinton has assaulted it like no other can. This is why he should be impeached. His crimes were political in that they assaulted the fabric of our society. In allowing the President to remain in office, purposefully delaying or perhaps even rejecting his being held accountable to the law, Americans have in effect written a new law, one designed expressly for the convenience of one citizen regardless of whether his crimes occur as a component of his official duties. This country is being atypically divided-- divided fundamentally, and with the current Administration a line is being drawn in the sand. With each marginalization of decency, with each forcing of fundamental indecency upon decent Americans, we all inch closer to disaster. I do not know where we are in the process, but I do see the construction of the tinderbox. Our current trajectory makes eventual catastrophe an inevitability.