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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (29547)	1/24/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Michelle, I really don't care whether he is gay or not. He is a socialist pure and simple. I doubt many homophobes voted for him. I believe he represents one the most heavily populated gay districts near Boston. He's also a hypocrite, who dwelled on and on about Reagan supposedly lying in court years ago calling for his head and now he's doing a flip-flop with regard to Clinton. He was also one of the most vocal supporters trying to prevent Clarence Thomas from being appointed. He also whined on and on about Bush not having the authority to send troops to the Gulf without congressional approval. And now he's as mute as mute can be regarding Clinton's right to bomb factories. Of course you won't see these contradictory statements in the liberal media. I also think it's pretty pathetic that he had a lover running a gay prostitution ring out of his apartment years ago. My trouble is I have a good memory regarding politicians. Unfortunately few do. I only brought him up because GRIM gets so sensitive about the issue. :-) He dishes it out on a regular basis, but where I work he would last about 2 weeks before being spun into the ceiling. :-) Michael

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (29547)	1/25/1999 9:06:00 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

I thought you might find this point of view interesting: Left chooses to make up your mind by Don Feder Monday, January 25, 1999 The left claims to be pro-choice on abortion. But as the rest of its agenda illustrates, the concept of choice simply doesn't exist in their world. Pro-choice is for liberals a euphemism. Driven by a zeal to limit population, liberate women from maternity and separate sex from procreation, they are far more pro-abortion than they are pro-choice. Last week, the Christian Coalition of Maine submitted 70,000 signatures for a ballot question to ban partial-birth abortions. The initiative is opposed by a group that calls itself The Maine Coalition for Choice. Choice. A woman's right to choose. It sounds so all-American. After all, is not individual freedom our defining national characteristic? Given their professed attachment to choice, one would expect liberals to extend the concept to the furthest horizons. One would be mistaken. Many parents consider the ability to decide where and how to educate their children significantly more important than whether to kill them in the womb. To frustrate this legitimate desire, teachers' unions have deployed their Praetorian Guard, the Democratic Party and William Jefferson Clinton, to block all exits from a dysfunctional public school system. Last year, the president vetoed opportunity scholarships, worth up to $3,200 annually for 2,000 poor children in the District of Columbia, for fear their families would use the grants to flee public schools that resemble free-fire zones. The middle class is staggering under the property-tax burden, much of which goes to public education. For the left, giving these families a choice in educating their children, through tuition tax credits, is unthinkable. Education aside, liberals would limit parental discretion through mandatory sex education and the misapplication of child-abuse laws, and by harassing mothers who leave a toddler in a car for five minutes. Choice in retirement plans is as elusive as educational choice. Most Gen Xers and not a few Boomers believe their chances of actually collecting Social Security benefits to be slightly less than their prospects of winning an Olympic gold medal for figure skating with both of their legs in a cast. Here is a choice with profound consequences for our golden years. Clinton's answer to the looming Social Security crisis? Use 60 percent of the budget surplus to shore up a structure with a ''condemned'' sign out front. While he'll generously allow us to invest in some sort of government-subsidized 401(k)-type account, we still will have no choice on how our Social Security taxes are invested. Three-quarters of Americans pay more in Social Security than in federal income taxes. Taxes themselves are another way liberals limit choice. The average family's tax burden has climbed from 21.8 percent of its income in 1983 to 24.9 percent today. Bill Clinton would cut off his right arm before cutting your taxes. The deficit was his old excuse. Now it's saving Social Security. Who knows what it will be tomorrow? Liberals are afraid that if you keep more of your income, you'll choose to spend it frivolously. They have it earmarked for socially responsible projects, like child care, arts funding and fighting suburban sprawl. On an issue as vital as self-defense, liberals again are intent on foreclosing options. Los Angeles is one of a growing number of municipalities weighing a liability suit against gun manufacturers. The plan is to put firearms companies out of business, sharply reducing supply and making it harder to exercise the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and the basic human right of self-defense. Even with something as mundane as transportation, liberalism's penchant for coercion is conspicuous - witness the war on sport-utility vehicles, the latest greenhouse-gas culprit. Al Gore would raise their cost by subjecting them to the emissions standards of cars, instead of trucks, putting them beyond the means of most consumers. Significantly, the alternatives liberals would allow us are all lethal - abortion, assisted suicide, drug legalization (death by addiction) and access to child pornography on the Internet. Where choice really matters to those with their faculties intact - how to educate your children, plan for your retirement, spend your income, defend your home and family, commute - liberals want you to do it their way and have a sumo wrestler in their corner to see that you do. bostonherald.com