11/3/98

Dear American People,

Bill Clinton has compelled us to look more closely at morality. Are we a moral people or are we merely claiming higher morals only when another's morals are called into question? Can an immoral person or group fairly or accurately point out the immorality of another?

We want our president to be moral and want our president to set a moral standard that we all can follow. We want our president to be what we in most cases are not, better then ourselves. What Clinton has done is brought to the forefront our myths about our presidents. Of course the insightful and realistic among us know that past presidents haven't been as pristine in their conduct as we would like to believe. As a matter of fact, Clinton's immorality may very well be of a lesser kind then the immorality of other presidents.

We now have Clinton up against the moral wall about his personal life. Some are contending that the nature of his lies require Clinton to resign. Yet selling weapons to Iran and consequently lying about it is not the kind of thing over which we may impeach a president? Perhaps some are jealous that Clinton has done a great job as president, and think this one of the only ways he may be prevented from being called "great".

Republicans want us to be saved from a liar; save us from a balanced budget; save us from peace in Ireland; save us from peace in Bosnia; save us from good government. They want to save us from becoming a sinner like Clinton. Perhaps the Republicans are now the new national church and they want to save your soul.