Nixon was a popular president as well
By Dimitri Rigopoulos

        I continue to be extremely disgusted with the public opinion polls surrounding our immoral if not criminal president. The more scandals that ooze out of the White House each week, the higher the approval rating for Mr. Clinton. Is this possible? How can a liar and adulterer have the highest approval rating for president in the twentieth century? Oh, by the way, Nixon had a 75% approval rating a week before he resigned. Alas, the sad truth is that the majority of Americans love Clinton, and want him to continue to lead this country into the beginning of the twenty-first century. Women are at the forefront of the public voicing that their president should be released from these charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. He has everyone fooled into thinking that he is the victim of Republican hatred, that they have ripped open his private life looking for a reason to bring him down. What makes me laugh is that people actually believe him when he apologizes. Why don't you take a closer look and check out the grin that he is trying to hide every time he makes an appearance on television?

         The majority of Americans think that this case is based solely on the contents of his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Go up to anyone on the street and ask them what they think of the case and most will tell you that Republicans need to stay out of the presidents private life. They don't seem to have their facts straight. The only reason that anything concerning his affair with Monica Lewinsky was brought into the open was because prosecutors of the Paula Jones case were trying to prove President Clinton capable of sexual harassment. This isn't some sort of sexual McCarthyistic witch-hunt by the Republican party. They haven't been locked in secret rooms trying to conceive a possible scenario to get Clinton thrown out of office. They used the evidence that they had right before them.

         Congress is only doing the job that the Constitution enables them to do. Impeachment of our leaders was a measure implanted by the framers to check the power of political officials. Bottom line is they did the right thing. They did their job. Clinton committed perjury before the grand jury and very well may have committed obstruction of justice by trying to buy off Ms. Lewinsky by getting her a job at Revlon. Should he not be punished? I know what most of you are thinking, "He agreed to take censure, why don't we drop the trial and impose the censure?" There are two simple reasons why Clinton needs more than censure: one, censure of the president is the national equivalent of grounding a teenager for a week because he or she violates curfew; and two because Clinton is a pathological liar. If Clinton were to be liberated, what prohibits a pathological from lying again? Absolutely nothing; and furthermore how many other things has he lied about to the American people who love him so much. Let me put it another way. If a Republican were on trial for the same offense, he would have been in jail a long time ago.

         It is a sad day in our country when we approve of a president's actions that constitute a felony. Americans pride themselves on equality yet they put their president above the law believing with almost blind loyalty that Clinton's moral and ethical decisions have no bearing on the way he runs the country. The corrupt popes of the mid Catholic Church are comparable to the president of the United States in that they preached the laws of the church that they themselves rarely followed. So, we have a choice, a president who lies, bribes, and philanders, or a vice-president who was built by the same company who built Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean. Could our country be in such a political depression that it would present the public with this kind of decision?

         In my opinion only brighter days can be ahead as Dan Quail announces his bid for the Presidency of the United States.