Madigan, > I agree completely. I did not believe at the time he > should have been removed from office. But, he should > have resigned gracefully. That would have put Gore > into the presidency, and he would have, being the > incumbent president, beaten George Bush easily.
That's what I thought at the time. In the beginning, I thought Clinton was just waiting for the 2-year mark to pass in his second term, but then it became obvious he was never going to resign. I like Clinton, but we would have all been so much better off if he had resigned instead of allowing the country to go all the way through an impeachment trial. I'll never forgive him for that. Never. Not any more than I'll forgive the Republicans that pressed charges. It was a big mess. Entirely predictable, and entirely preventable. > But Clinton is a narcissistic gas bag who didn't give > a crap about Gore. It is tough to give up the presidency. Nixon had more class when he gave up office rather than put the country through an impeachment, and Ford had more class when he pardoned Nixon. Back then I was a Republican, and I was never a Nixon basher. I still am not. He got caught in a cover-up, and took the honorable way out. I think he will be vindicated over time. I am like many thinking Democrats that simply do not and never did hate Nixon. Please understand that my unwillingness to give Clinton a pass on his selfish retention of the Oval Office does not mean that I think Bush was a reasonable alternative. I have thought all along that Bush was in over his head and that he was too dumb to know he was in over his head -- IOW, the most dangerous combination. Reagan was in over his head too but was not dumb enough to think he was OK on his own. He was reachable. Bush I was an intelligent guy. Bush II is an arrogant dumb-ass who is unreachable with reason. Kristyne McDaniel www.mcstyles.com www.shamrocktrails.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
