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Ric Carter wrote:
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> -Caveat Lector-
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard R. Davis III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >> Remember the Iran Contra and several other investigations of propriety
> >> and lies:
> >> "Senator, I have NO recollection."
> >
> >Unlike most politicians, it may actually be true that he had no
> >recollection.
>
> In which case he was unfit to hold office and should've been removed.
> That's the Reagan dilemma - he either lied, and should have been
> impeached and removed, or he was too addlepated to function, and
> should have been removed. But he had great popularity, so he
> remained in office.
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It's interesting that so many have argued that Clinton should not be
impeached just because he committed a couple of felonies, but you can
suggest that Reagan should have because he had a poor memory. I am not
even sure that the real evidence of him having a problem showed up until
his failure to remember one of his staff in a deposition he gave after
his presidency.
Another interesting thing about this whole impeachment thing is that
the Senators who support Clinton keep quoting the "high crimes and
misdemeanors" clause and say that his wasn't a high crime. However, so
far, I haven't heard a definition of "misdemeanor" and if that would not
apply. My understanding is that perjury and obstruction of justice are
both felonies and that, as far as I know, is more serious then a
misdemeanor.
Thus with Willy J: whatever his crimes [and
> he wasn't impeached for his really vile offenses], it's impolitic to
> try to oust him. Business booms, peace reigns, and it's his watch.
>
> We murkans don't really care what our presidents do, as long as the
> economy is good and we're not at war. Cousin Jimmy was damn near a
> saint, but inflation soared and the Ayatollah prevailed, and Jimmy was
> a goner. Bush won a ?great? war but the economy sucked while he
> vacationed, so he hit the shitpile of political luzers. Nixon could
> have gotten away with building concentration camps and otherwise
> shitting on the constitution, if OPEC hadn't blown the economy away.
***
This is probably incorrect. The economy was "blown away" by Nixon's
ending of the dollars link with gold. The subsequent change in the
relationship between the two was reacted to by the OPEC nations with a
raising of their prices to reflect its true worth. Gold and oil almost
directly mirrored each others rise in relationship to US dollars.
Howard Davis
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