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October 31, 2005

Disagreement

For the first time since I started reading her words, I disagree with one of Sissy's posts. Comes as somewhat of a shock to me, as usually I find myself nodding my head and thinking about how to best use her arguments in my own daily discussions with family and friends.

While we agree with Roger re "the infantile partisanship dominating American political life" -- today and throughout our nation's history -- we're still gagging at Lanny Davis's scare quotes attempting to gloss over the b>rampant Clintonian political corruption, from day one of the co-presidency, that was forever swept under the carpet with "I don't recall" and "It depends upon what your definition of is, is." Our personal favorite was the Clinton aide whose excuse was that he had lied to his diary. Don't we all? Did that work for you, Lanny? Sorry. It didn't work for us unwashed out here.(emphasis mine)

Political corruption runs rampant in every presidency. I don't give a flying fuck who is the cause of it, or who furthers it. Whoever those people are, if it can be proven that they knew exactly what they were doing and with disregard for the American Public, they should be gone, and charged with the appropriate crimes.

BUT (and this is a big but)

Clinton was no more or less corrupt than any other president. He had his strengths (domestic policy, charisma) and his weaknesses (foreign policy, charisma), but so does every president. They are human, which is why we have checks and balances in our system, instead of putting all our power in one person. We have a political system that works better than socialism, better than a dictatorship, and better than a facist bureaucracy, because the Founding Fathers understood that the people involved are human, and prone to mistakes.

To highlight one presidency and call it more corrupt than the others (with the exception of Nixon, he was a whole other can of worms), is to misunderstand, however slightly, that these people are only human.

And to do it while writing about an article that discusses the harm of partisanship - shame on you, Sissy, for playing into those politics.

I hate partisanship, no matter where it comes from. There is no need for it, and there is nothing preventing people from ending it themselves, except their own hate and distrust. I expect more from a New England Republican.

Posted by Kat at October 31, 2005 10:13 AM

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