Harry Pollard wrote:
[snip]
Clinton lied in a court of law. That was his obvious crime.
However, something I disliked immensely was the way they turned on
Monica, intending to destroy her. She became the local whore until
something changed.
[snip]
Clinton would not have lied had he not been checkmated by the
SELFRIGHTEOUSCONSERVATIVEHYPOCRITESWHOSTILLRESENTFDRFORTHENEWDEAL....
and who play off the fact that many Americans' greatest
sexual gratification comes from Pruditanically frustrating the sexual
pleasure of others.
Had Clinton been able to say, without fear of any
consequences beyond the dry cleaner's bill he seems
to me ethically obligated to pay for Ms. Lewinsky:
Yes, I had sex with that woman. So what?
--Had Clinton *not even needed to say *that**, he would
not have felt the need to lie.
A person who is asked a question which the
questioner has not business asking but which the
person asked does not have the power to directly
rebut, is left with only the alternative of
giving a "false" answer. But the BIG LIE
is in the question, which escapes scrutiny
like a big red [OK: white, since these are
anti-communists...] herring.
Bush, since his transgressions are economic and not
sexual, feels no such compunctions in telling the
Senate and the American people he is "screwing" them.
And -- mirabile visu! -- they *swallow* it whole.
History has seen other similar cases. The one
that sticks in my mind is J Robert Oppenheimer who
betrayed his friend Haakon Chevalier because he was
afraid of the anti-Communist witch-hunters. General
Lesley Groves was apparently pretty decent, but
he should have come to Oppy's defense and told
the anti-Communist witch hunters to go take a hike
on the beach of Tinian or Iwo, where they could have helped
prepare the way for the delivery of the a-bomb.
Just because you, Harry, are not now nor have ever been,
does not mean that you might not have been, or that,
one day, something you did or which you didn't do
but which somebody decides to accuse you of, may not become the
rallying cry of some new self-appointed plague of
Harpies (AKA "patriots"). Sometimes decent persons get
"framed".
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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