Condit

[ERNIEB]

I didn't watch the interview. he doesn't represent me. In fact I found it rather odd that the local radio talk shows were buzzing on the interview. His link to Levy and her disappperance is the main thing that interests me. Like a lot of people I have a strange curiosity about such things. Yea, I admit I've read books about Jack the Ripper and the Borden murders too. I knew he wouldn't say anything about that.
I think this article sums up his "performance"
http://news1.iwon.com/top/article/id/157899|top|08-25-2001::02:02|reuters.html

Ernie

 

[DrDan]

I think the American people are sick of these sleezeballs and their lying. If they were doing the job we are paying them for they wouldn't have the time for "womanizing". What a pig this guy is. I think he should step down and quit wasting the CA taxpayers money on his defense.

Thank god we have a moral man as President now. I don't think the moral fabric of this country could withstand another lying cheating president.

My $0.02 worth only.

Dr Dan

 

[Hillbilly]

I agree with you 100% + We now have a good moral man in the Oval Office and a now have a good moral man as Vice President. A president that conducts himself in a manner as Clinton is not a man,lying and fooling around on his wife and then lying under oath and to the American people. Let alone fooling around with a girl that is about his daughters age. I could go on,but I won't.

 

[ddl]

I agree also, if their wife or husband can not trust them, how can we. The problem with clinton was now some people try to justify their acts by saying I have my private life. What is lost is that when we elect them, they have no private life as long as they work for "US".

Dan l

 

[Hillbilly]

Talk about a diversion: His private life is none of our business. But the issue was he lied under oath!!!!!!!!!!!

Ronald Reagan did not think you should remove your jacket,let alone roll up your sleeves when in the Oval Office,Our sitting President Bush says the jackets stay on in the Oval Office and the women are to be dressed in proper attire as well.

Clinton was in the Oval office with his pants down around his knees.

Talk about a difference in character and respect for the highest office in the world,let alone the nation.

 

[TerryinMD]

Hillbilly,

An interesting point about the respect for the Office.

There is a major difference in how Billy-Bob-Bubba-boy and Dubya treat the Office of the President. You have hit the nail right on the head as to the character of the people holding the office.

The Clinton chapter to our history is over and just beginning to be understood. Let us see how it is written and how much influence the man has in determining future events. How often will he be called to provide guidence to future Presidents. IMO, not much!!!

 

[Hillbilly]

Look at Jimmy Carter,a fine moral family man,who still sets good examples,be it habitat for humanity or anything else he does. Gerald Ford is another fine man with good qualitys,I read a story one time about a stewardess on Airforce 1 mistakingly dumped a cup of coffee,in Presidents Fords lap.He just laughed and they got him a towel,I imagine he probably new how humiliated the stewardess was with herself.

 

[ERNIEB]

Ah yes,but. Even after Clinton lied to the American people about Lewinsky, even after it became public knowledge that his mantra was "deny, deny, deny" Clinton remained a very popular president. He had many people defending him, and alot more bought into his "private life" defense. If he had been able to run for a third term, I'm not so sure he would have lost.
I hate to say It, but it seems to me that If we are at peace, with a good economy Americans could care less if the guy in the oval office is a masher.
The only differrence between Clinton and Condit is that in Condit's case the girl is missing. But yet I hear that even the dems are turning their back on the guy. That politically he is toast. Condit did seem to at least try to follow Clinton's lead, but bungled it badly. Maybe experiance helps/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
What I would like to know is what does all this say about us, the people who vote and elect these people.
Hillbilly, I have long felt that Jimmy Carter is proof that good men don't always make good Presidents.

Ernie

 

[Hillbilly]

I am not so sure Jimmy was that bad of a president then again maybe he was not the best either,he just was not one of the guys up at Washington.I don't know if I would say Clinton was as popular as he was controversial,he sure did not represent my views,since I am not politically correct,and I am not a liberal,I feel a lot of the ground work for his success pertaining to the economy was laid out in the 80's. I think his foreign policy was a disaster.
You are right about people being at peace when the economy is good,and most of the people that bought into the "private life defense" are pretty low on morals or naive in my opinion,the thing was that he broke the law.I sure can't say that Clinton was a good president,he would have made a good used car salesman.Look at these last minute pardons etc.His brother Roger Clinton makes poor ole Billy Carter look like a rocket scientist.
I keep thinking back at this last election,look at the map and who supported Gore and who supported Bush,there was a lot of farmland etc for Bush and a lot of your big cities supported Gore,heck Gore could not even carry his home state and WV a traditonally democratic state carried Bush.A person could hash this out for along time depending on where you stand on things,I guess this is one of the great things about this country you have a choice.

Best regards

 

[Bird]

Yep, Carter was considered a "bad" president and Clinton a "good" president, when I think they (and others) frequently got the credit, or the blame, for things they actually had little or no control over at all. And that's nothing new; it happens in business, government, and even our personal lives.

Bird