However, Clinton’s wrong-doing was not one in which national security and well-being were threatened but no more than a lie, whether under oath or not, about his personal sex life.

I could live with the actions of Republicans if every member of Congress, if every politician, was as virtuous as they claim the president should be.

There are those who disagree and state that Clinton has destroyed, or is in the process of doing so, the morality of the youth of this nation.

My gosh, but do they think we are dumb and blind to the truth? They expect us to believe that Clinton was responsible for the increase in teen pregnancies, teen smoking, teen drug usage, teen rebellion, teen killings, and so on during the greatest increases in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and the 90’s up to his first term?

Isn’t this rather illogical since they don’t blame Ford, Reagan, Bush, Carter, Johnson, and Kennedy, the people who were in office during all the increases to the level inherited by Clinton?

You know, though, being illogical has been a primary characteristic of leading Republicans. Take Gingrich and Republican actions concerning him. Absolute case of bonafide philandering and willingness to use funds improperly. Certainly, he believes, as do the leaders supporting him, anything that one doesn’t get caught at is okay.

The attitude of the Republican Congress during Gingrich’s BIG LIE that was two years long seemed to be: We (meaning the leaders of the Republican Party) must keep him in as House Leader since it is for the party’s good.

And so I ask - Where were morality and integrity then? Guess just swept under the rug with the media holding the rug up.

How about D. Burton, R, of Indiana? No, I didn’t do anything wrong having affairs even though I had a child out of wedlock with my concubine. Just Mr. Clinton is wrong for lying about sex acts with a young intern. Afterall, my private life should be respected and kept private. And, Republicans, both in office and private life, kept going at Clinton while ignoring Republican transgressors.

Now, should this be put in any publication, some Republican will write a BS answer and state the highest office in the land must be held by a virtuous person with integrity, not someone who has done as Clinton.

The person will also state it is for the good of the nation that he be ousted as he is immoral and lacking in character.

But, who of them is virtuous and could prove so during a $50 million dollar investigation in which every filthy byway of normal Washington politics and abuse of power is slopped through?

And, then, to be dissected distasteful by distasteful morsel by media sources looking for as much dirt as possible in the false premise that such activities are news or simply needed to attract viewers to their biased, over-rated news services.

To those Republicans who state it is all been for the good of the office and this nation I say quite bluntly - BULL. It never has been, nor will it ever be, for the good of the people of this nation with the majority feeling Starr’s investigation should have been stopped 6 months after it began.

It has been politics at its dirtiest, a dunking of the public into the cesspool we call Washington politics. And, it was done at the expense of the American public, both spiritually and financially.

Kind of reminiscent of the witch hunts of old. No good came of them nor will any good come of Republicans having pushed for the private life of President Bill Clinton being exposed to the public in order to get something against him.

The lie is, after all, the same lie the majority of our members of Congress, past members of Congress, and past presidents have also used to the public, to their families, and to their constituencies.

The people of this nation have been exposed month after month to the two-faced value system of our leading politicians, be they Republican or Democrat. It should now be obvious to all of us l that virtue and integrity must not be operationally defined by politicians for political purposes.

These values must be a spiritually embraced way of life which demands that one and all behave within the moral, ethical, and civil laws of Man. Not doing so while using virtue and integrity as tools for maintaining power is as great a crime against family values as any committed by the president.

Therefore, any who support Republicans’ actions are just as guilty of lacking in virtue and integrity as Mr. Clinton unless - and this is a big ‘unless’ - they DEMAND exactly the same of all political leaders.