DML,
This is a long post and it has nothing to do with Daks. It has to do with
the Presidential hearings, Ken Starr, his testimony and his report. If you
are not interested, just delete...
Frank
Eric Jowers, a retired Army officer, served as public affairs officer at
Fort Rucker from 1989 to 1991. He lives in Ozark, AL. You know what good
writers those military public affairs officers are,
right? Well, read on:
Dear Mr. President:
It's not about sex. If it were about sex, you would be long gone. Just
like a doctor, attorney or teacher who had sex with a patient, client or
student half his age, you would have violated the ethics of your office and
would be long gone.
Just like a Sergeant Major of the Army, Gene McKinney. who, though found not
guilty, was forced to resign amid accusations of sexual abuse. Remember the
Air Force General you wouldn't nominate to be Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff because he freely admitted to an affair almost 15 years
before,
while he and his wife were separated? Unlike you, he was never accused
of having a starry-eyed office assistant my daughter's age perform oral sex
on him while he was on the phone and his wife and daughter were upstairs.
If It were about sex, you should be subjected to the same horrible hearings
that Clarence Thomas was subjected to because of the accusations of Anita
Hill. The only accusation then was that he talked dirty to her. He didn't
even leave semen stains on her dress.
No, It's not about sex. It's about character. It's about lying. It's
about arrogance. It's about abuse of power.
It's about dodging the draft and lying about It. When caught in a lie
by letters you wrote, you concocted a story that nobody believed.
But we excused it and looked away.
It's about smoking dope, and lying about It. "I didn't Inhale," you
said. Sure, and when I was 16 and my buddies and I swiped a beer from an
unwatched refrigerator, we drank from it, but we didn't swallow. "I broke
no laws
of the United States," you said. That's right, you smoked dope in England
or Norway or Moscow, where you were demonstrating against the U.S.A.
You lied, but we excused it and looked away.
It's about you selling overnight stays in the White House to any foreigner
or other contributor with untraceable cash.
It's about Whitewater and Jim and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Governor
Jim Guy Tucker and Vincent Foster and Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones and
Kathleen Willey and nearly countless others.
It's about stealing the records from Foster's office while his body was
still warm and putting them in your bedroom and "not noticing them" for
two years.
It's about illegal political contributions. It's about you and Al Gore
soliciting contributions and selling influence at Buddhist temples and
in the same Oval Office where Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt led
their countries through the dark days of wars that threatened the very
existence of our nation.
But we excused you and looked away.
It's about hiding evidence from Ken Starr, refusing to testify, filing
legal motions, coaching witnesses, obstructing justice and delaying Judge
Starr's inquiry for months and years, and then complaining that it has gone
on
too long. The polls agreed. Thank goodness that Judge Starr didn't read
the polls, play politics or excuse you and look away. He held on to the
evidence like a tenacious bulldog.
Your supporters say that you've confessed your wrong doings and asked
for our forgiveness. Listen, what you said on TV the night you testified to
the grand jury was not a confession. Confession in the face of
overwhelming evidence is not a confession at all. Not that it would make a
lot of
difference. A murderer who contritely confesses his crime is still a
murderer.
When your "confession " didn't sell, even to your friends, you became
moreforthcoming. Maybe someday you'll confess more, but probably not.
You've established such a pattern of lying that we can't believe you
anymore.
Neither can your cabinet, the Congress or any of the leaders of the nations
of the world. When a leader's actions defame and emasculate our country
as profoundly as yours have, it's no longer a personal matter, as you
claim. It's no longer a matter among you, your family and your God.
By the way, I don't believe for a minute that Hillary was unaware of
your sexual misadventures, abuse of power and pattern of lying. She has
been
a party to your wrongdoings since Whitewater and Gennifer Flowers just as
surely as she lied about the Rose law firm's billings and hid the Vincent
Foster evidence in your bedroom for two years. Why? So she could share in
the raw power that your office carries. The two of you probably lied to
Chelsea, but that is a matter among you, your family and your God.
Remember the sign over James Carville's desk during the 1992 campaign?
It said, "It's the economy, stupid!" Place the sign over your desk "It's
about character stupid!"
No, It's not about sex, Mr. President. If It were, you would be long
gone. It's about character, but we have to live with your filth, lies and
arrogance for a while longer. Your lies, amorality and lack of character
have been as pervasive as they have been despicable, so we have no reason to
believe that you will quietly resign and go away.
You'll count on half truths and spin doctors to see you through, the country
be damned. It has always worked before.
We excused you and looked the other way.
No more: we've had enough. You have betrayed us enough. You have made
every elected official, minister, teacher, diplomat, parent and grandparent
in the country apologize for you and explain away your actions. Now go
away, and let us show them that our country was not without morals, it was
just that you were. Let us show them that America was not the problem,
William Jefferson Clinton was.
Go away, Mr. President. Leave us alone. And when you leave, know that
your legacy to the United States of America will be a stain on the Office of
the President that is as filthy as the stain on Monica's dress. It will
take a lot of scrubbing to make it clean again
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