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

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (31153)	1/30/1999 8:17:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

My education is primarily classical. From the Trojan horse to Plato's Noble Lie, from Aristotle's recognition that prudence must guide moral judgement to the Jesuits distinction among types of lies, the distinction I have drawn has meant something. Lying is in general wrong, but the circumstances are not irrelevant, and may sometimes justify it. It is simply more likely to do so if national interests are at stake.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (31153)	1/30/1999 8:31:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

I also should respond to the question of how this is supposed to encourage a better class of people: in my view, almost every President that we have had has been a better class of person than Clinton. Since Theodore Roosevelt, I can think of only four possible exceptions: Taft, Kennedy, LBJ, and Nixon, and I consider it possible that they were better. I am sure that the rest were, Republican or Democrat, FDR and Reagan, Hoover and Carter, Eisenhower and Bush, et al. So I would be pretty satisfied to go back to the status quo ante, and I think that putting slick through the ringer will discourage low- lifes from putting themselves under that much scrutiny.