Findlaw: Parallels Between Spitzer and Clinton, If Bill Resigned, Gore Wins, No Iraq, Strong Economy

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Findlaw: Parallels Between Spitzer and Clinton, If Bill Resigned, Gore Wins, No Iraq, Strong Economy

Edited on Sat Mar-15-08 10:18 AM by Dems Will Win

This legal analysis says it all. Bill Clinton should have resigned like Spitzer did, and then we would have had incumbent President Al Gore beating Bush in 2000, no Iraq War and maybe no 9-11! Our economic situation today would also be far, far better -- probably strong.

So this lawyer, too, blames President Clinton for not resigning when he should have done the honorable thing--like Eliot Spitzer is about to do on Monday.

Client 9 and President 42: Drawing Parallels Between Spitzer and Clinton

By SHERRY F. COLB
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Thursday, Mar. 13, 2008

Doing the Honorable Thing in the End

In retrospect, however, many of the people who once stood by Bill Clinton may have come to see things in a new light. While hardly criminal, Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky was troubling and was symptomatic of a willingness to use power to exact sexual favors, often in contexts in which his partners were apparently less enthusiastic about participating than Monica was. Perhaps more importantly, the entirely foreseeable circus surrounding Clinton's affair with Monica had the effect of distracting his and everyone else's attention from the important work of the nation.

As Clinton said on the night that he apologized to the nation, "Now it is time - in fact, it is past time to move on. We have important work to do - real opportunities to seize, real problems to solve, real security matters to face." As he did not say, it would have been far easier to accomplish that work had Clinton stepped down and allowed Al Gore to become president. In the years that followed, of course, many other things would likely have been different if Clinton had taken that route.

It is difficult to praise Eliot Spitzer for resigning, because we cannot know what he would have done if he had had more friends willing to stand by him, as Bill Clinton did. He certainly behaved recklessly, just as Clinton had, and in a manner that would - once exposed - predictably undermine the force of the work that he and others had tried to do. But in stepping down, regardless of his motives, Spitzer has acted honorably and has paved the way for a new governor, David A. Paterson, to move Albany beyond the events of the last few days.

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20080313.html

This is the real lesson of Spitzer: Bill Clinton should have resigned and spared us all the agony of the Bush Administration. It was all predictable. No doubt Hillary insisted that he stay on, telling Bill the Senate did not have enough Republican votes to convict him, even though he would certainly be impeached. Always the lawyer.

Now with a collapsing economy, Bill Clinton NOT resigning is going to REALLY hurt.

Please write below what would have not happened or could have happened with 2 terms of President Gore instead of President Bush!

PLEASE RECOMMEND IF YOU WOULD HAVE RATHER HAD THE ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE WHERE BILL STEPPED DOWN AND INCUMBENT PRESIDENT AL GORE WOULD HAVE BEATEN THE CRAP OUT OF DUBYA, NO IRAQ, STRONG ECONOMY, MAYBE NO 9-11