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Honestly, host, this last post is what I like about you. You see the world in black and white (and bright shades at that), and it helps me negotiate my world of shades of grey. In all seriousness, I do appreciate the effort you put into your posts.
That said, the triviality of my Clinton example was no mistake. I chose it carefully. The reason is that center of that scandal and the current administration's problems both boil down to a lie or lies to the American people. If you leave the terms and conditions of that lie (if you will) out of the equation, you're still left with a lie. Period. I will certainly accept that there are degrees of lies and that neither of these were the first lies told to the American people ("mistakes were made" anyone?), but it seems to me that you and willravel are trying to have your cake and eat it too. Whatever administration is in power is responsible for it's own actions, not the voters. Our job as voters is to put that administration there in the first place by casting our ballots, but our responsibility has to end there. Otherwise, we are all culpable for the mistakes of that administration, whether they be wars, clandestine murders, break-ins and wiretaps or, yes, blowjobs.
I think that the fact of the matter is that Bush will continue in office for another 16 months or so, and then there will be some sort of major shift. Even if another Republican is elected (how, I don't know at this point), they'll have to clean house and get rid of virtually every political appointee in the current administration for propriety's sake alone. Hopefully the changes that we, the voters, dictated in November will help to curb some of the administration's greater transgressions, but there's not much else we can do short of armed insurrection, which is a deadman's hand for most involved. There is little to no chance of any sort of impeachment proceedings coming from the current Congress, but a mitigation of the some of the errors can certainly be hoped for.
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