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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (23420)	12/21/1998 12:56:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

TigerPaw, you can call perjury and obstruction of justice a trivial incident if you wish. Maybe you should tell that to the Americans who are serving jail sentences for it. Nixon was threatened with impeachment for a far lesser offense. For the good of the country he resigned. And he was elected with a huge majority of Americans, much higher levels than Clinton. Remember most Americans never voted for Clinton. Polling of course wasn't such a practiced art form then as it is now, but I would be willing to bet the majority of Americans did not want to see him impeached either. Unfortunately because we have a hollow leader without the character of Nixon we must endure a long drawn out impeachment process. In the end he will be found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice. Whether he is indeed impeached is still an open book at this stage. If he was a Republican and had committed these offenses, I can guarantee you the media elite would be calling for his resignation in mass. In today's pop culture of 6.7 second sound bites the propaganda machine known as the media is playing a larger part in all this than most realize. They are shaping public opinion on a scale not seen for decades. Michael

To: TigerPaw who wrote (23420)	12/21/1998 12:07:00 PM
From: RJC2006	Respond to of 67261

<<<First of all ask yourself, not your retorical facade, but yourself. If Clinton is President is the government going to fall? >>> Sorry, but what we've been told by liberal left-wing wackos is that removal of a President constitutes the fall of government <<<Now ask yourself what it means if a President is removed for trivial reasons. OH! youre going to say, this is not trivial, this is perjury, this is adultary, this the the worst behavior ever exhibited in a human being since Cain killed Abel. Well get a grip! >>>> Nobody said that. However, it's a common left wing wacko ploy to reduce the seriousness of a crime by comparing it to a worse crime. <<<<This is someone messing around, after resisting I might add, and then not being forthcomming in explanations.>>> Nothing need be said here. <<<This is something worth of a week in the National Enquirer.>>> Which is about what the Clinton administration has reduced itself to. <<< If the President can be removed for such a trivial offense, then he and all future Presidents will serve at the whim of the House of Representatives. >>> Rhetoric, Rhetoric where fore art thou Rhetoric. <<<<While you may enjoy a parliamentary system, I feel that our current Presidential system has many unique advantages.>>>> This speaks volumes. <<<The chief of these is stability.>>>> Until the chief becomes unstable. <<<The election period is known to the electorate and they can plan their decisions accordingly. Next, and perhaps most important there is a blending of ideas from the executive branch to the judicial. Those countries which operate under parliaments suffer from abrupt changes when the government changes because all institutions change at once.>>> Wrong. The institutions do not change. The people in them may. <<<<In our presidential system of government there is more compromise as the executive and legislative branches must come to an acommodation to pass any laws.>>>> i.e. a dictatorship.