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Edited on Wed Nov-26-03 10:45 AM by Rabrrrrrr
So, so long as Shrub isn't having sex with women other than his wife, he's okay.
Clinton did make a huge mistake in having his little Moncia tryst, and it cost him dearly. Had he apologized to the country right away, he'd have been forgiven, and could have moved on. Obviously, the rightwingers would have found something else to impeach him for, but Clinton helped fuel the fires of hate with that particular indiscretion, because he fell right into what Americans base their judgments on - appearances.
But that's also the fault of idiot Americans.
Shrub can go around blowing anything up, shredding the constitution, and every other evil thing he does, but America won't mind becuase he isn't having sex outside marriage, he isn't killing anyone himself, he still goes to church, he still acts like a regular guy, he holds his wife's hand, etc.
So it IS all about appearances.
I'd say Clinton is far, far, far more moral than Shrub, even given his Monica tryst.
But we - the democrats - tend to think of morality as relating to how we relate with other people and live in community together. Repukes tend to think of morality as a personal thing - what you wear, whether you go to church, the music you listen to, etc. So a repuke can lay of his entire company, move the assets to a foreign country, pay no taxes, and get a ten million rebate from the IRS, and that's okay, because the guy goes to church and calls his mother in the nursing home every Sunday afternoon, you know?
Why is this? I'm not sure, but I have an idea. I think bovine America is so superficial in their judgments becuase of ignorance. Not just regular ignorance and lack of curiosity and intellectual interest, but ignorance, really, of what power is and what a president does. I think a lot of Americans have no idea, no conception of the power and responsiblity of the president, and instead of tryiong to imagine it, or understand it, or do some research and put themselves in that spot, they shut their brains down and go "Well, I refuse to understand policies that don't directly affect me, so my judgment on the president's role will be based on how moral he appears to be in his daily life", because regular daily life is in the realm of experience of the average American.
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