??? I don’t know if any of you know this or not but today is the anniversary of Bill Clinton becoming only the second President to ever be impeached. After nearly fourteen hours of debate the House of Representatives approves
two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Nine years later we have a sitting President who lied to the American people as well as Congress to engage us into a war in Iraq. Yet none of the debate or hours of trash on television about it do we see. Basically we had a sitting President who had an affair and lied about it and he was impeached. Don’t you think lying to get us into a war of aggression deserves to at least be investigated and debated if not impeached?
Under the Bush administration our rights have quietly been eroding away. We have had a domestic spying program uncovered that has operated with impunity even though it is illegal. Not that we do not have means in place to do the spying that needs to be done under the rules of law. We have had our secret agents outed for political reasons. The office of the president is supposed to be charged with upholding the Constitution and the laws of the land. This administration does as it pleases and to heck with anyone or anything that it sees as in its way. It appears that we now sanction state sponsored torture of prisoners, and stripping them of any rights to a trail for their crimes, if any. Our CIA has secret prisons in foreign countries just for interrogating prisoners. And all authorized by this administration. Or if not officially authorized then unofficially when it refuses to speak out against them. After all they all come under the presidential branch of government.
It just seems so wrong that one President can have an extra marital affair and not only do we have to hear all about it on the news with graphic details but the president is impeached and here we have another president that lies to us and congress, starts an war, runs roughshod over the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and we do not hear a peep from our so called news stations or any hearings into the matter by Congress. In my opinion that seems as if we have our values completely wrong.