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In 1992 Clinton said that his enemies were targeting him for a
woman he didn't sleep with and a draft he didn't dodge. Liberals
knew in their hearts that both claims were lies, but they told
themselves that this didn't matter.
In the Whitewater affair, liberals were presented with a case of
political corruption of a sort that they had classically fought,
a conspiracy by a circle of political insiders to loot a savings
and loan and to defraud a government loan program for women and
minorities. Whitewater too, liberals decided, didn't signify.
When Hillary Rodham Clinton was found out to have made $100,000
on a no-risk $1,000 investment in commodities deals with a lawyer
who represented one of Arkansas' largest regulated businesses,
liberals who had taken to the streets against Reagan's Decade of
Greed said -- oh, never mind. When the Clinton 1996 campaign
subverted the entire system of campaign finance laws, liberals
said, well, everybody does it. Lately, with independent counsel
Starr getting troublesome, liberals have been saying it is time
to scrap the liberal independent counsel act.
And now this. On "Meet the Press" last Sunday, Tim Russert asked
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) whether the allegations that the
most powerful boss in the world had sexually exploited a
21-year-old female intern raised questions about Bill Clinton's
treatment of women. No, no, said Pelosi, they raised questions
about Ken Starr's treatment of women.
"There's a point of sensitivity that women have about Kenneth
Starr's attitude toward women; how he's investigating, exploiting
Monica Lewinsky, how he used Linda Tripp to do that," said
Pelosi, with a face so rigidly straight it seemed it might crack.
"The Susan McDougal case comes back to mind, because here again
is a humiliation of a woman because she won't tell him what he
wants to hear in that case. And now you see the humiliation of
Betty Currie." Yes, Susan McDougal was humiliated, and so was
Betty Currie. But the agent of their humiliation wasn't Ken
Starr; it was Bill Clinton. And he is the agent, too, of the
humiliation of Nancy Pelosi.
The problem with Clinton is not only that he lies; it is that he
makes liars out of everybody else. The problem is not only that
his moral standards are low; it is that he requires that
everybody else lower theirs to meet his. By the time he is
finished, so too will be the quaint idea of a higher ground in
politics.
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I find the last paragraph particularly prophetic.
T.E. - San Diego Ilks (Sgt. at Arms)
... The Clintons: We're inept, we're incompetent, and we're in charge!
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