Wednesday, August 05, 1998
Enough already about Clinton's indiscretions
For years now, President Clinton has had dozens of allegations and accusations leveled at him.
From Gennifer Flowers to the most recent and most dangerous Monica Lewinsky, Clinton has gotten into and then slid out of more difficult, stressful circumstances then any other president since Richard Nixon.
And even that's debatable.
Whitewater, Troopergate, Kenneth Starr, Paula Jones, and Indonesian supporters of the Democratic Party all have one thing in common.
Apart from the fact they all have links to the White House, they have all unselfishly contributed toward our deep sense of apathy concerning all things scandalous.
The media, certainly, are not helping Clinton's situation. Every day there is something new and ridiculous in the news, and since it involves the president, of course it makes the newspapers' front pages.
From the way Secret Service and White House lawyers have been subpoenaed to testify, one would think there is some critical, course-of-history changing kind of investigation going on.
Strangely enough, however, what began as an investigation is now some great white whale hunt les by Starr, who seems more like Captain Ahab with each passing day.
Does it really matter if Clinton had "relations" with Lewinsky? If this was 1985, maybe, but not now. Nobody care about that anymore.
And even if he did lie on the stand about it, can we really condemn him for it? His indiscretions have caused enough trouble for his family; why subject them to the public disgrace of impeachment?
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My views on this seem anachronistic in retrospect, particularly in light of the Me Too movement and the Trump administration.
Clinton's conduct at the time was anything but professional, and I gave little thought to the power distance at work in the affair.
And even if viewed purely through a political lens, one wonders if a Clinton resignation would have allowed Gore to win in 2000, or if it would have allowed Democrats to take a moral high ground in 2016.
My views on this seem anachronistic in retrospect, especially in light of the Me Too movement and the Trump administration.
Clinton's behavior was anything but professional, and I didn't consider the power distance at work in the affair.
Even when viewed purely through a political lens, one wonders if his resignation would have led to a Gore presidency in 2000, or if might have allowed the Democrats to take a moral high ground 2016. We'll never know.
My views on this seem anachronistic in retrospect, especially in light of the Me Too movement and the Trump administration.
Clinton's behavior was anything but professional, and I didn't consider the power distance at work in the affair.
Even when viewed purely through a political lens, one wonders if his resignation would have led to a Gore presidency in 2000, or if might have allowed the Democrats to take a moral high ground 2016. We'll never know.
My views on this seem anachronistic in retrospect, especially in light of the Me Too movement and the Trump administration.
Clinton's behavior was anything but professional, and I didn't consider the power distance at work in the affair.
Even when viewed purely through a political lens, one wonders if his resignation would have led to a Gore presidency in 2000, or if might have allowed the Democrats to take a moral high ground 2016. We'll never know.
My views on this seem anachronistic in retrospect, especially in light of the Me Too movement and the Trump administration.
Clinton's behavior was anything but professional, and I didn't consider the power distance at work in the affair.
Even when viewed purely through a political lens, one wonders if his resignation would have led to a Gore presidency in 2000, or if might have allowed the Democrats to take a moral high ground 2016. We'll never know.
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