Letter to the president (archive)

I know we've seen this before, but, as my buddy
>says, we need to be reminded every so often of
>what we've allowed to govern our nation......
>
>A letter to the President
>
>Eric Jowers, a retired Army Officer, who served as
>public affairs officer at Fort Rucker from 1989 to
>1991, wrote this letter. He now lives in Ozark,
>Alabama.
>
>Dear Mr. President:
>
>It's not about sex. If it were about sex, you would
>be long gone. Just like a doctor, attorney or teacher
>who had sex with a patient, client or student half his
>age, you would have violated the ethics of your office
>and would be long gone.
>
>Just like a Sergeant Major of the Army, Gene Mc-
>Kinney, who though found not guilty, was forced to
>resign amid accusations of sexual abuse. Remember
>the Air Force General you wouldn't nominate to be
>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because he
>freely admitted to an affair almost 15 years before,
>while he and his wife were separated? Unlike you,
>he was never accused of having a starry-eyed office
>assistant my daughter's age perform oral sex on him
>while he was on the phone and his wife and daughter
>were upstairs.
>
>If it were about sex, you should be subjected to the
>same horrible hearings that Clarence Thomas was
>subjected to because of the accusations of Anita Hill.
>The only accusation then was that he talked dirty to
>her; he didn't even leave semen stains on her dress.
>No, it's not about sex. It's about character. It's
>about lying. It's about arrogance. It's about abuse
>of power. It's about dodging the draft and lying
>about it. When caught in a lie by letters you wrote,
>you concocted a story that nobody believed. But we
>excused it and looked away. It's about smoking dope,
>and lying about it. "I didn't inhale" you said. Sure,
>and when I was 15 and my buddies and I swiped a
>beer from an unwatched refrigerator, we drank from
>it, but we didn't swallow. "I broke no laws of the
>United States," you said. That's right, you smoked
>dope in England or Norway or Moscow; where you
>were demonstrating against the U.S.A.
>
>You lied, but we excused it and looked away. It's
>about you selling overnight stays in the White House
>to any foreigner or other contributor with untraceable
>cash. It's about Whitewater and Jim and Susan
>McDougal and Arkansas, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and
>Vincent Foster and Jennifer Flowers and Paula Jones
>and Karen Willey and nearly countless others.
>
>It's about stealing the records from Foster's office
>while his body was still warm and putting them in
>your bedroom and "not noticing them" for two years.
>It's about illegal political contributions. It's about
>you and Al Gore soliciting contributions and selling
>influence at Buddhist temples and in the same Oval
>Office where Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt
>led their countries through the dark days of wars
>that threatened the very existence of our nation.
>But we excused you and looked away. It's about
>hiding evidence from Ken Starr, refusing to testify,
>filing legal motions, coaching witnesses, obstructing
>justice and delaying Judge Starr's inquiry for months
>and years, and then complaining that it has gone on
>too long. The polls agreed. Thank goodness that
>Judge Star didn't read the polls, play politics or
>excuse you and look away. He held on to the
>evidence like a tenacious bulldog. Your supporters
>say that you've confessed your wrong doings
>and asked for our forgiveness. Listen, what you
>said on TV the night you testified to the grand jury
>was not a confession; overwhelming evidence is not a
>confession at all. Not that it would make a lot of
>difference. A murderer who contritely confesses his
>crime is still a murderer. When your "confession"
>didn't sell, even to your friends, you became more
>forthcoming. Maybe someday you'll confess more,
>but probably not. You've established such a pattern
>of lying that we can't believe you anymore. Neither
>can your cabinet, the Congress or any of the leaders
>of the nations of the world. When a leader's actions
>defame and emasculate our country as profoundly as
>yours have, it's no longer a personal matter, as you
>claim. It's no longer a matter between you, your
>family and your God.
>
>By the way, I don't believe for a minute that Hillary
>was unaware of your sexual misadventures, abuses of
>power and pattern of lying. She has been a party
>to your wrong doings since Whitewater and Jennifer
>Flowers just as surely as she lied about the Rose law
>firm's billings and hid the Vincent Foster evidence in
>your bedroom for two years. Why? So she could
>share in the raw power that your office carries.
>The two of you probably lied to Chelsea, but that is
>a matter among you, your family and your God.
>
>Remember the sign over James Carvill's desk during
>the l992 campaign? It said,
>
> "It's the economy, stupid!"
>
>Place this sign over your desk:
>
> "It's about character, stupid!"
>
>No, it's not about sex, Mr. President. If it were,
>you would be long gone. It's about character; but
>we have to live with your filth, lies and arrogance
>for a while longer. Your lies, amorality and lack of
>character have been as pervasive as they have been
>despicable, so we have no reason to believe that you
>will quietly resign and go away. You'll count on half
>truths and spin doctors to see you through, the
>country be damned. It has always worked before.
>We excused you and looked the other way. No more,
>we've had enough. You betrayed us enough. You have
>made every elected official, minister, teacher,
>diplomat, parent and grandparent in the country
>apologize for you and explain away your actions.
>
>Now go away, and let us show them that our country
>was not without morals. It was just that you were.
>Let us show them that America was not the problem.
>
>William Jefferson Clinton was.
>
>Go away, Mr. President. Leave us alone. And
>when you leave, know that your legacy to the United
>States of America will be a stain on the Office of
>the President that is as filthy as the stain on Monica's
>dress. It will take a lot of scrubbing to make it
>clean again.
>

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