Does someone in the past commiting a crime and getting away with it make commiting that same crime in the present acceptable? I am so tired of hearing the excuse that Clinton did it too from republicans when they get caught in one of their scandels. Does OJ getting off give me the right to commit murder now because afterall he did it and got away with it?
2007-07-03 05:42:28 · 16 answers · asked by snoopy22564 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
payback against who? The American people? the CIA agents whose lives were put in danger?
2007-07-03 05:51:17 · update #1
Nope. You don't excuse bad behavior by pointing out the bad behavior of others.
2007-07-03 05:45:40 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
When speaking of politics, anything goes. Clinton broke the law, Bush broke the law, Reagan broke the law, LBJ broke the law, even Nixon broke the law (shocking but true). I agree that it is at best disingenuous to say "they did it so we can too". Actually it is obscene. Yet we let these idiots get away with it. Look at these ridiculous hearings going on right now (where they are subpoenaing Cheney). Do these hearings honestly affect the American People? No. Instead of the democrats getting back at the republicans over what they did to Clinton ('cause that is all this is about), these elected officials should be doing the work of the people. Maybe they should be addressing ACTUAL PROBLEMS like: health care, education, the war in Iraq, our deteriorating highway system, pollution, finding a new fuel source or finding more oil....etc, etc, etc.
2007-07-03 12:51:01 · answer #2 · answered by thinking-guru 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't entertain ethical scenarios from the very party that will kill and unborn child one day and then picket against the death penalty of a convicted child murderer the next . As far as OJ was concerned, anybody with any type of common sense could see the man was guilty...but when the verdict came in Not Guilty , I watched as thousands of enlightened College students across the nation stand up and cheer for his victory.
And since you kind of sound like one of those kids I will take my 2 points and hold my nose until i can walk out of this room...it stinks .
2007-07-03 12:52:00 · answer #3 · answered by danielle p 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
CIA agents were not put in danger as Pfame was not an agent or did not have access to them to report their whereabouts. Richard Armitage was the one to leak to the press so if leaking was a crime why is he not even prosecuted, It is because this was a political witch hunt and Armitage was not a neocon but a moderate who would have also brought down Colin Powell with him as his top aide.
2007-07-03 13:06:37 · answer #4 · answered by ALASPADA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Republican excuses bad behavior by those in their party. HOWEVER, while condemning said behavior, we WILL point out the hypocracy of the lunatic left. (For example: Mark Foley (R) and Gerry Studds (D) )
Why won't demoncrats and lunatic lefties go after those in their party with the same fervor that they have when they go after Republicans?
2007-07-03 12:51:00 · answer #5 · answered by Firestorm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when someone complains about something that they dont complain about when someone they admire does the exact same thing it is appropriate to point out the hypocrisy. especially when the complainer is invoking things like "the world will never take us seriously because the president is above the law" and how is the world opinion going to be different than when others were above the law.
2007-07-03 12:51:56 · answer #6 · answered by CaptainObvious 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not that its acceptable its that you liberal douche bags do it ten times more, and get reelected. A liberal can get caught on film smoking crack, with a hooker, and get reelected. A liberal can fire 95 prosecutors, without a whimper, a liberal can pardon 459 criminals, not a peep. The liberal mind reminds me of the schizophrenic spiderweb experiments.
2007-07-03 12:52:53 · answer #7 · answered by Richard P 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can not prove O.J. did it! You weren't there! As for politicians THEY ALL DO IT, no matter what their political affiliation. Do you really lose sleep from all this? Does it change your life in anyway? Be realistic! Sh*t happens everyday and you have no control over it, so why let it beat you into compulsive feelings of anger.
2007-07-03 12:51:51 · answer #8 · answered by JustShutUp 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
its just that conservatives are so tired of demecrates pretending they are outraged by this action.
but really you are right its to different things.
what clinton did was much much worse
2007-07-03 12:48:53 · answer #9 · answered by Adam of the wired 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then why do Republicans do that very thing? (Post 1)
WHAT flawed logic?? (Post 2)
2007-07-03 12:46:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋