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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40386)12/21/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Broken_Clock  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
Nadine,
Why is that "thinly" stretched. We're not talking about spandex, we're talking about polls. Polls are what the pollster makes it. Ask the right question, get the right answer.

Here's my point. Justifying Bill's actions because of a polll is pretty darn bogus, IMO. If he broke the law, he should pay. If he doesn't have to pay then get rid of the law and let all those convicted of perjury go. I don't see a huge outcry to release those thousands in jail already for perjury. Do you? Shouldn't Bill, the champion of the oppressed, be leading that fight?



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40386)12/21/1998 10:02:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
rightly or wrongly, many people ascribe wall street's success to the president and his policies. his point is well taken here. he isn't saying americans are prisoners. he's saying that wall street has an incentive to support bill b/c of a conflicting self interest just like the prisoners have a self interest in reversing their conviction or reducing their sentence.

i think it is quite an apt analogy.


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