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

To: Dan B. who wrote (35463)	2/24/1999 3:55:00 PM
From: Brad Bolen	Respond to of 67261

Dan, No, I don't think the public is capable of understanding the point I was touching on. But, indeed, you may. I don't think people care as much as they should about what words mean. In this case, I guess that is my 'beef'. I constantly hear the words 'lied under oath' and 'perjury' interchanged as if they were equivalents. Among the several scholars and lawyers I know there is no disagreement (no matter their political orientation) that the public doesn't (and maybe shouldn't be expected to) get the difference. Why would that surprise you? I don't follow polls that closely, but it seems to me that the last ones I saw were pretty flattering to Clinton. As for the bashing of Starr, Republicans, and the 'whole impeachment mess', I will leave that to others. That is really all I have to add to the subject. Good Luck, B. P.S. The masses will never be philosophical--Plato. ------------------------- RE: You or anyone may indeed consider that it IS perjury. What's the beef? If you can't imagine that the public is capable of understanding the subtle nature of the point you tried to make, then you may sell them short. Regardless, my words were not misleading, if you understand them with logic in place. I'm having a hard time imagining you understand that my original post proved that I do indeed understand the "subtle point" you made. What's not subtle is that what the public believes about this President is quite real...whether they comprehend the technical ins and outs of legal perjury or not. This means to me that continuing to bash the messenger(Starr/Republicans) who brought a message the public accepts as true is not going to help the Democrats. It's just as tiring to hear this bashing as the whole impeachment mess was in the first place.