Right or wrong. President Clinton's 1998 impeachment was politically motivated. ?

Question

Conservatives, I know there are many of you in what George W. Bush once called "the dark dungeons of the Internet".

I'm not going to let you off the hook on this one, so spare me the mumbo jumbo about morality and Clinton's betrayal of his family.

If you had really wanted to make a statement about moral values, you would have waited until Clinton left office to bring charges against him, because that way:

1) You would prove to the nation that it was not politically motivated

2) Clinton, once he left office, would not have been able to claim executive privilege

and

3) The country could've gotten on with the rest of its business without these types of legal proceedings causing so much of a distraction, as they dealt with a former president rather than an incumbent one

Answer 1

The amount of pure deceit that bush is allowed to get away with proves that this was not a stand on Moral ground, because morals now no Party affiliation.

Answer 2

If Clinton had mislead the country in the egregious ways the current administration has done during the past 8 years, there would be h**l to pay from the right.  No doubt had Clinton lied this nation into war, outed a covert CIA agent, wiretapped innocent Americans, condoned torture, ignored the failed economy, health care crisis, and Katrina victims, the President would have gone directly to jail.    

Answer 3

the real crime is the democratic party, led by NancyPelosi, are letting a group of war criminals walk free

Answer 4

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Politically motivated or not, Clinton should have been removed from office due to his criminal act.

Popularity and politics does not excuse criminality. I don't want known criminals in the White House or anywhere near it.

I view the Senate's acquittal as suborning perjury and a criminal act in and of itself. The Senate's duty was to ejudicate on the evidence and not on the politics.

Clinton's duty to the nation, the courts, his family and himself was to be honest.

He was not, therefore history will record him as a popular liar and an unrepentant lecher.

Nothing new here, I've know this about Clinton since 1977. I was in Arkansas from 1975 through 1999.

Clinton was charged with obstruction of justice and perjury and undeniable proof of his guilt existed.

The honorable thing for Clinton to have done would have been to resign and let the country get on with its business. There was no need to drag the whole country through his sordid life.

The Clintons made it political. ("vast right-wing comspiracy")

Look at it this way. A Clinton resignation would have put Gore in office and he would not have had the Clinton albatross around his neck afterward. Gore probably would have won re-election in 2000 and sent Bush packing back to Texas.

In this way it becomes apparent that Clinton's desire to save his own *** was more important to him than the good of his party and for d**n sure more important than the country. His family and friends have always entered into his cold calculations late and only as needed.

Like when he needs them to lie for him and the gullible and/or evil always will.

Ahhh, the Bush "lies".

Are there people who believe Bush lied? Yes.

Are there people who have proof of Bush lies? No. If there were, he wouldn't be in office.

Proof of mistatements, and/or the findings being counter to statements is insufficient proof of a lie as you would have to prove the statements were known to be incorrect at the time the statement was made. If one believes the incorrect statements to be true, it cannot be a lie but merely a wrong statement.

That's why perjury is a difficult charge to prove, which is why most people when confronted with a question in which an honest answer is troublesome but a blatant dishonest answer is even more trouble can't seem to recall much. It's impossible to prove what one can recall but it's not impossible to uncover an outright lie.

DNA evidence snaring a liar in a perjury case is rare.

Prove that Bush knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he knew he was lying or else all you have are unsubstantiated biased and politically motivated opinions.

Answer 5

well no $h!T.....

the dude lied on an affidavit and to the American People on Camera...

Answer 6

So, in your opinion, regardless of the crime committed by a president, let him/her get away with it until they are no longer president.  As to whether it was politically motivated, mainly.  There was still those who felt that no one is above the law and therefore B. Clinton should have been held to answer for his crimes.

Answer 7

it was politically motivated.  and even wronger was the nearly hundred million it cost taxpayers for the witch hunt,,,,,,,

if it was a just thing to do, then even a juster thing to do was to give consideration to the impeachment case against Bush which was introduced into Congress with 35 impeachable offenses.  Not the two impeachable offenses, like Clinton, but 35................

I would like to ask the fist responder if he/she seriously thinks Bush has never lied to the American people while on camera?   Most patriotic Americans have no doubt that he has on a number of occasions........

Answer 8

I totally disagree.  Clinton was the right man for the job because the partisan politics prevented anyone from getting anything meaningful done.  That's the way it's always been, when ever we have one party in control of a large majority of government everything goes to h**l in a hand basket regardless of party affiliation.

Answer 9

100% politically motivated, same as the reason Bush hasn't been even though he is the most impeachable president ever.

Answer 10

I guess cheating on your wife and lying about it (which, don't get me wrong, is awful) while in office is just...

SO MUCH WORSE

than starting wars, legalizing torture, killing civilians, putting into motion acts that make it so any American can have their phones tapped, their homes searched, the cars searched (without warrants of course), going after other countries' natural resources, lying constantly and continually...need I go on?

If Clinton was impeached for his offenses, then Bush should have been impeached a hundred times over.