Comments on: I Know It’s Not Nice to Speak Ill of the Dead, But… http://deceiver.com/2007/11/29/i-know-its-not-nice-to-speak-ill-of-the-dead-but/ The two-faced and famous have something new to worry about. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:40:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: vancortland http://deceiver.com/2007/11/29/i-know-its-not-nice-to-speak-ill-of-the-dead-but/#comment-28 vancortland Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:16:29 +0000 http://deceiver.com/2007/11/29/i-know-its-not-nice-to-speak-ill-of-the-dead-but/#comment-28 You miss the point with Henry Hyde. He was not prosecuting for sexual indiscretion. He was prosecuting for lying to a Grand Jury. No adultery is good, but adultery that occurs in high places is bad because it opens a government official to the possibility of manipulation by others. It is one of the favored ways that covert intelligence is gained for hundreds of years. Get a powerful figure in a compromising situation and then you can have them do your bidding because they don't want to be found out. A president who lies about this will lie about other things for convenience sake. A president can lie to a grand jury with no punishment. What reason do any of us have to tell the truth if the executive branch does not. No question about it Adultery is adultery. But Hyde was doing his duty to prosecute Clinton and there is nothing hypocritical about that. I might need to lose ten pounds but there is nothing hypocritical about me advising someone to lose 50 lbs for health reasons. They are the same and yet they are not. You miss the point with Henry Hyde. He was not prosecuting for sexual indiscretion. He was prosecuting for lying to a Grand Jury. No adultery is good, but adultery that occurs in high places is bad because it opens a government official to the possibility of manipulation by others. It is one of the favored ways that covert intelligence is gained for hundreds of years. Get a powerful figure in a compromising situation and then you can have them do your bidding because they don’t want to be found out. A president who lies about this will lie about other things for convenience sake. A president can lie to a grand jury with no punishment. What reason do any of us have to tell the truth if the executive branch does not.

No question about it Adultery is adultery. But Hyde was doing his duty to prosecute Clinton and there is nothing hypocritical about that. I might need to lose ten pounds but there is nothing hypocritical about me advising someone to lose 50 lbs for health reasons. They are the same and yet they are not.

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