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The Impeachment Of President Clinton In 1998 Was Over The Top.
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In Light Of The Actions Taken By President Bush, Attacking Iraq, Spending Billions Of Dollars On The War, Wire Tapping American Citizens, Condoning Torture, Detaining Individuals, Failing In New Orleans, Firing US Attorneys Because They Weren't "Bushies". Interfering In The Terry Schiavo Case, And On And On; The Impeachment Of Presidebt Clinton For A Sexual Indiscretion In 1998, Was Over The Top And Had Little To Do With Governing The Country. Please Do Not Give An "I Agree" "I Disagree" Answer. Give It Some Thought, And State Reasons For Your Opinion
by Robbier44  Robbier44
 03 Sep 2007 07:44  
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 True True True true true! There have I said it enough! The republicans were looking for ways to discredit Clinton from his first bid for prez! From his affairs to Whitewater etc.! They got SOOOO desperate to get this man out of office that they attacked a character flaw as opposed to civil rights violations and unjust wars like those sponsored by good Ole' King George!

Wire Tapping, torture, cencorship, Halaburton, Enron the list goes on and on! The conservatives like to question the Moral Fiber of Liberals but with all the scandals going on in the White House these days it is like an ongoing episode of 24! How soon people forget that Clinton passed pioneering environmental laws, helped balance the budget, forged peace in Ireland and Haiti and brought prosperity in this country! Yes he did do wrong by initiating in sex acts with someone other than his wife, but ultimately that is between them and noone else! We also forget that at the time of the 2000 elections Clinton was so popular he would have been re-elected yet a third time!
 08 Sep 2007 15:23
by Phreekshow  Phreekshow
 Yes it was. If he had done something to endanger the country or was incompetent, but a little play with a buxom brunette, not really grounds for impeachment.
 17 May 2008 16:12
by Pencil  Pencil
 Let's break this down: Clinton is a BAD husband, but not a bad president. He lied about sex, but did that stop the ECONOMY from being jacked up? NO!

Ok, Bush lies about WAR, and GOVERNMENT SPENDING: Yes, this harms our economy, and foreign affairs. There you have it, Clinton's lie may have harmed his LIFE, but not our COUNTRY.

Let's take babe Ruth as an example. He had sex with EVERYBODY. But did that stop him from being one of the best baseball players ever, NO! He was great. Personal life can NOT tie in with Professional life.
 03 Feb 2008 16:46
by Gorillaz  Gorillaz
 Its alot to be said about the way the government twist things and munipulate the citizens to believe what actions they take are for our good, but to be truthful and honest with you , they wanted Clinton out of office because he gained favor with the minorities and the so called lower class citizens. I will say the fact that there were information out there leading to the al-quida attacking the country and no action was being taken by our current commander in chief is all the more reason for him to be impeached not an extra marital affair between God and his wife .
 03 Sep 2007 22:40
by Mshudson  Mshudson
 This is why people laugh at the american sense of justice. You have one president facing possible impeachment for what should be a civil matter ,like not paying a fine or getting into a bar brawl. Then on the other hand you have george bush who has landed an entire nation into a conflict which will reverberate for centuries to come.if he had pinocchios nose he would be in jail by now as the lies would be as plain as the nose on his face.
 12 Sep 2007 02:06
by Padraig  Padraig
 Really, I don't care who he was having sex with. As long as hes doing a good job being the president Hes doing his job fine. True, cheating is a bad thing to do but does not have to do with anything about running this country.
 09 Sep 2007 21:53
by Irtimixd  Irtimixd
 I agree with the over the top assessment. I wonder why they wasted tax payers money on something so stupid like that. I feel that if Clinton having an affair it was between him and his wife and not the US. He did his job very well. If anyone should be impeached for lying, take a look at our current administration. I've run out of fingers and toes just keeping track of all the lies. Was there any proof of a tie between bin laden and sadam hussein? NO. Pure speculation only. He needs to remember that he doesn't have "the divine right of kings". Maybe he should look it up. Hope he sleeps well at night. I wouldn't.
 04 Sep 2007 06:39
by Kitana  Kitana
 How does what bush did have any thing to do with what clinton did.deal with the facts as they happened
 04 Sep 2007 02:44
by Patrick7  Patrick7
 Let's see if we can take this from the top.
(1) All of this talk about this war being all of President Bush's fault is just a smoke screen. Congress (both house & senate) voted over-whelming to support the war, as did 49 other countries who supplied either troops, supplies or helped finance the effort. There was a concurrence even in civilian areas. Bill Clinton even voiced his approval of the war, not suprising since a majority of the U.S. Population was also in favor of it. All parties had access to a multitude of information from various country's intellengence agencies,that is except the public and those who chose not to even bother to look at the information before the vote.
(2) The wiretaps were done only on lines which numerous calls being made to countries which were known to be sympatheticto the terroist cause, most of them made by aliens both legal & illegal.
(3) Torture= playing loud music & sleep deprivation (something most all college students do on voluntary basis), detained people taken as prisioners on a field of battle. I guess we should just slap them on the wrist - tell them not to do that again- then send home so the next day they"ll have becme reinforcements in the ranks of al-quida
(4) Failure in New Orleans- Federal funding was supplied, the customary trailer type housing was provided, as well as finacial assistence to those who applied for it.
The real blame was a lack of planning at the state & local levels. The storm sat out in the gulf churning it's way toward the city for a couple of days before making landfall. This all took place in 2005, at some point in time people have to help themselves.
(5)The firing of the U.S. Attorneys. Not much to say here, the Bush administration fires 8, the Clinton administration fires 93.
You do the math--DUH!
(6) Terry Schiavo case- Well let's see, the president signed into law a bill that was approved by both the house & senate. I think that's one of the things listed in the Constitution as a job that's required by the president.
Now that get's us to the subject of President Clinton and what he did in office. You seem to have forgotten the troops being sent into Somalia, without not so much as a question being raised to congress for advice & consent. That turned out real well didn't it.
Seems like the real issue that you stated was the only thing that occurred during the Clinton administration was happening at the same time. Just a coincidence i guess, he really wouldn't be trying to divert the attention away from just a little consensual sex, especially by using the armed forces. We all know that he holds them in such high regard. The little sexual indiscretion; that is not what he was impeached for. The president is in charge of the attorney general's office, the highest law enforcement officer in the land. He was charged with lying to congress under oath(a felony, the Constitution says that high crimes are the grounds for impeachment), a spit in the face of every judge in the country. I remember him one morning straight into the camera & telling the american people "I did not have sex with that woman." wagging his finger in your face as he told that lie. I don't guess we want to talk about the fact that she was a intern and he the president, or the fact that people such as John Tower, Bob Packwood and others were sent packing for much less this.
To address another blurt in the replies, The case that was thrown out of court was the Paula Jones case, for insufficient evidence. It seems that after the congressional hearing on impeachment were heard, that the judge who had made the ruling in the case fined Clinton for contempt of court for lying.Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that he would have to pay all reasonable expenses including attorneys' fees to Ms. Jones, also reimbuse the court $1202.00 for judge's travel time. Mr. Clinton paid Paula Jones $850,000.00 seems like a nice settlement for something thrown out of court.
 18 Oct 2007 20:32
by Graghost  Graghost
 What Clinton did was lie under oath. Which is a felony. Bush has not been convicted of anything! I personally agree that torture should be used as well as wiring tapping. The wire tapping is NOT to spy on us, it is to look for terrorist that is a fact! If you mean detaining people at gitmo, that is not illeagal. That is being done at gitmo so the left in this country doen't try and give them protection under our laws which they don't deserve. They were captured on the field of battle not in a shopping mall creating a disturbance!
The president is guarranteed by the laws of the constitution that he can Can those judges any time he wants without any reason. They are appointed by the president and can be removed by him at his pleasure.
As far as the Katrina debacle, it was not Bushs fault that the local government screwed the pooch.(The government of that city and state were and are Demacrats). The constitution is very clear on when the feds can go in!
Clinton lied and was under oath when he did it and was caught. Never mind the example he became to the youth of this country, an example not to be followed. You and others say Bush lied and he sucks ect. Ect. Ect. But do you really think Clinton could have handled 9/11 much less anything eles. After all we have another example of Clinton's failures with the Blackhawk down debacle.
And what about whitewater and passing up Bin laden, and his bullying of law abiding gun manufactures into sighning an agreement with him or face bankrupting lawsuits of which only Smith & Wesson signed and only because they were owned by a British company. And what about giving the N, Koreans the necessary matierials to make a nuclear weapon, and selling nuclear secrets to the Chinese communists, how about sending an U.S. Expert over to China to help them fix thier ballistic missle program which the Chi-Com's couldn't get to work!?!
As a minnimum Clinton should have been impeached, but was only censured! He and his wife and Gore and his wife should have been tried for treason and convicted and give life in the electric chair! Bush may suck, but Clinton sucks more!
 15 Sep 2007 18:51
by Fordfan  Fordfan
 Mr Bush is simply being the President!
 03 Sep 2007 18:05
by Pobrown  Pobrown
 Mr bush is just being himself.
 06 Jun 2008 17:31
by Gigglesann  Gigglesann
 Simply lying is not enough to get a president impeached. If so, every president would have been impeached.

Clinton was not impeached for lying, he was impeached for LYING UNDER OATH, also known as PERJURY. To have one law for the common man, and another for those in power is the definition of TYRRANY.

To claim nobody is ever prosecuted for perjury is also a lie. People have been prosecuted for exactly that, both before and after the Clinton affair.

As a matter of fact, a particular Mayor up north is being prosecuted for lying under oath, and obstruction of justice... And what did he lie about? Sex.
 17 Apr 2008 22:10
by Billzbub  Billzbub
 Nxon got impeached for just one lie. Clinton got impeached for a sack of lies.

Both impeached Presidents were guilty of the 'high crimes and misdemeanors' necessary to impeach. The Clintons should have known better, as Hillary was on the legal team that impeached Nixon.

What goes around comes around.
 21 Mar 2008 07:45
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