Subject: Re: former Democrat writes
Omlor@aol.com
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 12:24:00 GMT
Sorry, Scotty,
No, I'm afraid I'm a bipartisan cynic, and would argue against the likelihood
of *any* administration highly prioritizing "moral considerations" in any
case, including, for instance the Roosevelt and Truman and Johnson
administrations, who catalogued a host of immoral and inhumane decisions in
the name of political expediency. But the Nixon crowd *was* different.
Haldeman, Erlichman, Mitchell and co., *and* their fearless and paranoid
leader *were* professional thugs who simply and even ineptly broke any number
of common criminal laws in the name of simple political gain, not even in the
name of any particular policy, but solely as the result of personal and
political paranoia. And the lack of respect for the judicial process that
they flaunted made Clinton's pathetic wriggling over what the word "is" means
and over definitions of "sexual relations" look like the whinings of a little
boy who has been caught with the broken pieces of his mother's favorite lamp.
It's not about party, it's about the moral price these people are willing to
pay to feed their own personal ambition, and George W has regularly and
routinely shown that he is readily willing to look the other way when there
is political currency to be had. But hey, I've come to like the taste of
arsenic in the water.
Clinton was a political hack with some naive idealism and some skill for
political ruthlessness and an out-of-control libido and the emotional
maturity of a teen-ager. But Dick Nixon was a career criminal, a
professional player from his earliest days at Whittier and a man who was so
convinced that the entire world hated him and thought of him only as "not
Jack Kennedy" that he began to talking to portraits on the walls and popping
pills and rambling on tape like a crazed dope fiend. Nixon thought nothing
of picking up the phone and ordering someone to "get" Daniel Ellsberg's
personal, private psychiatric records so that he could release them to the
press or else blackmail Ellsberg and the Times into stopping further public
release of papers indicating the possible criminal behavior of our own
military overseas. Jesus, Scottie, Dick Nixon can be heard on tape biting
the heads off of rabbits and swallowing their peneal juices by turning their
bodies upside down and pouring it directly into his throat. Well, maybe not.
But he *can* be heard on tape ordering hush money to be paid to burglars and
ordering investigations and prosecutions of his perceived enemies and blaming
the Jews in the media for his bad public approval numbers and planning and
participating in more than a few criminal conspiracies. Maybe he didn't eat
live rodents, but the man was a severely twisted character and his
administration routinely broke nearly every law it could find to break and
then, when they got caught, they turned on each other like snivelling weasels
and ate their own, the way only lower species ever do.
Bill Clinton got a few blow jobs from a wannabe with a good mouth and a
willingness to please. Otherwise, over eight years he proved to be rather
politically impotent. How's that for irony?
But in any case, there is simply no comparison.
Bye for now. I promise to include some Salinger items later -- *not* about
"moral considerations," I promise.
--John
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