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

To: Bob Lao-Tse who wrote (24694)	12/28/1998 2:16:00 AM
From: Borzou Daragahi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

I'm going to ignore the rest of your post since it has nothing to do with the issue at hand, and is a misplaced attempt at an ad hominem argument. ???? How was that post ad hominem? I didn't even name any hominems. With all due respect, I think you are mischaracterizing my words or confusing me with someone else. There seem to be many questions about whether Clinton's prosecution--filled with allegations of leaks, conflicts of interest, improper relationships between lawyers, not to mention the airing of his Grand Jury testimony--would ever hold up in a real court of law. Your obviously heartfelt assertion that impeachment is the only constitutional option available is also a topic of debate among scholars and lawmakers. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that Congress may not censure a president. It is simply a method for removing an unfit person from an important office. The Clinton haters--and I'm not counting you among them because your views seem rather nuanced--have opined that Clinton is unfit for office since 1992. Congressman Bob Barr filed legislation calling for Clinton's impeachment in early 1997. I, and most Americans, see him as no more or less unfit a president for having lied about an affair than George Bush or Ronald Reagan. That there were only five defections on both sides of the aisle during the House impeachment vote lends much support to the commonly held view that this whole thing is not at all about a president's fitness for office; rather, it's the latest political manifestation of a cultural war that began in Chicago's Grant Park 30 years ago.