>>I'm pretty much against these kind of 'sting' operations in any case, but that's the libertarian in me. I'm not sure the punishment they had in mind for his infraction was particularly draconian - probably a fine - but I'm not sure what the police roll should be in preventing people from behaving distastefully. Like you, I didn't care if he resigned or not and I don't particularly dance with glee to see anybody's life collapse unless they've really done something mean spirited to harm others.
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>So again I ask what Bill did that was so bad. (i didn't know all the Kenedy stuff)
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He was hired to do a job and he let his personal demons interfere. Breach of trust. And, as I said, not by choice but by weakness. Do you really see Ms. Lewinsky as a good choice for an affair for any man in a public position? And it hardly was a one-off. I empathize totally with his weaknesses but he chose to seek that position and part of the deal is a standard of behavior.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
