You won't find me in Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp of supporters. You won't find me in Bill Clinton's camp of supporters. I would have supported the impeachment of President Clinton for entirely different reasons than if he got a blowjob on the job from his wife or from someone else. Good intentions or not, they and the people like them want to use the people in this country as a means to their ends.
However, this is ugly. Ed Klein better have evidence to support the parts of his book that say Clinton raped his wife and by doing that, got her pregnant with the child that eventually became their daughter, Chelsea. This kind of dirt hits me as particularly dirty because Drudge has been hyping The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President and we know his role in Clinton's presidency.
There are reasons I couldn't be a politician, but the public dissection of lives counts as a big one. Hopefully, the allegation is not true. For Chelsea's sake, because that would be excruciating to know and doubly so because everyone else does as well.
Ugh. Politics is filthy.
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You know politics must be awful when even the hopelessly-addicted can't stand it.
Political nastiness was so bad last year that I couldn't be bothered to care; the enthusiasm for politics slowly dwindled to apathy, only to be reborn as an awesome aversion to it. But, now that that's over, I can stand politics in moderate doses; I'm not sure how you junkies do it!
Posted by: Erik on June 14, 2005 07:10 PMI do it because I got so little else goin' on, dude.
And it's easy to get outraged when nearly everything happening around you is outrageous.
Posted by: Drizz on June 14, 2005 08:21 PMWell, it couldn't have happened to more deserving people.
Posted by: billy-jay on June 16, 2005 10:04 AMPolitics is so filthy because there's so much at stake. The winners get to tell us all how to live our lives, as evidenced in two recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court: Raich affirms the power of the central government to dictate what we can or can't produce; Kelo affirms the power of State and local governments to seize property for any reason. If there weren't so much at stake, politics would be less filthy. The only way to take the filth out of politics is to take (most of) the power out of government.
Posted by: Tom on June 24, 2005 11:30 AMTom, you won't be able to take the filth out of politics by reverting to a minarchy. It remains "filthy" when defense, police, and legal services are nationalized.
Posted by: Drizz on June 24, 2005 01:19 PM