Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] what majority wants Bush?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Rick Buford wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> The Republicans wasted about $50,000,000 investigating Bill Clinton for 
>> eight years.  What did they come up with?  Nothing.  Oh, he said "I did 
>> not have sex with that woman," but even that was not demonstrably false 
>> given the definition of 'sex' that was applied by the court.  That's 
>> it.
>
> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=sex
>
> 3 a : sexually motivated phenomena or behavior
>
>
> careful, your hypocrisy is showing...
>
> What Clinton did is called "perjury". Period. He lied under oath.


Read what I wrote (recapped above) - it's about the *court's* definition 
of sex, not about the dictionary definition of sex.  Read this...

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/17/time/clinton.html

...or any one of the other million articles about the *facts* of the case.

If the court had any sense, they would have written a reasonable 
definition of "sex" or "sexual relations."  The court screwed up, left an 
opening, and Clinton took it.  He's a lawyer, just like most Presidents 
and most Senators, Congressmen and Governors, so you should expect him to 
follow the letter of the law in this kind of situation.


> The issue here that noone appears to want to admit is that -all- of the 
> major political figures of the last several decades appear to have been 
> corrupt on at least --some-- level.

This is silly.  Clinton used a legal loophole to claim that he had not had 
sex with a willing partner.  That is "corrupt?"  I think you should look 
at the definition of that term.

Don't accuse the Democrats of corruption unless you can demonstrate 
corruption.  In 8 years of investigation, the Republicans came up with 
*nothing* on Bill Clinton.  Nothing.  Now check out the Nixon and Reagan 
administrations - extreme corruption.

Mike
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