President Bill Clinton has always been an enigma to me. I certainly gave him more support than President Bush but I wasn't one of those people that are so often seen looking at him as if a god had floated out of the clouds to grace them. This next opinion never wins me friends with my Democrat buddies but I truly believe that he did more harm to the party than any other person in the party, including our not-so-illustrious former DNC chairman. Another unpopular opinion I have is that his stupid affair with Monica is the reason he did so much harm. Do I care if he has extra-marital affairs? Not really but I have always looked at it this way: If he had been the CEO of a company and diddled a 21 year old intern would he still have his job? No.
This week I have some proof of this and the Boeing guy diddled a mature adult executive. So here's an executive of a company who had an affair with another executive and gets the can. Clinton has an affair with a 21 year old *girl* while supposedly championing women's rights and somehow he is praised by "the board" (in this case the company's board is... us, his bosses). The women's rights groups let the people down almost as much as Clinton did by taking a pass at that episode too. At the time the Democrats screamed and screamed about banning the "independent prosecutor" and I remember telling a friend that we would regret that... Delay anyone? I will never fully understand the reactions we all had to that time in history but I will never agree with the way my party handled it - or didn't as the case was. Probably, and rightly, that piece of history will be swept under the more important issues we have faced since then but that latest bit of news brought my head back to those days.
Note: To confuse everyone even more - I was not in favor of impeachment but I was indeed in favor of censure. He did not break his vow to uphold the constitution by his actions, he was just a complete and utter dumbass
Posted by dmason at March 7, 2005 01:23 PM