LETTERS: DEMOCRATS APPEAR TO WANT CHANGE

To the editor:

Democrats have been screaming and crying partisan politics for months over the possible impeachment and now over the actual impeachment of our immoral and self-serving president. From listening to all the far-left media propaganda on TV and reading many articles in the local Speak Out column, I have come to the conclusion that the Democrats would prefer changing our system of government from an elected representative process where the majority rules to a system of rule by polls. In so doing, they could control the outcome of their desires by simply throwing out the answers to questions that do not agree with their position.

Democrats are controlled by the far left and do not believe in the rules of law that have been established in this great country over past generations. They would prefer to return to a time in history where the innocence or guilt of a person was established by the position in life the person held and where the rule of law did not apply to the rich and powerful or those in the highest position in government. Democrats screamed foul when the majority in the House voted for impeachment. They did not put forward one word in the defense of the president's conduct, claiming only that sex is a private affair and is not an impeachable offense. They were wrong. The two articles of impeachment brought against the president were perjury and obstruction of justice. If placing his left hand on the Bible and raising his right hand and taking the oath to uphold the laws of the United States have no meaning to William Jefferson Clinton, then why on Earth did he do it the two times when he was sworn in? Further, if it means nothing to the president, why bother with the procedure of swearing in witnesses thousands of times each day in our court rooms across the country? Why don't we just dispense from the swearing in and let a person come into a courtroom and make any statement he so desires? We could then remove the word perjury from all our law books as suggested by some. The new Democratic slogan for the year 2000: "Perjury is not crime, it doesn't fit, and you must acquit."Yes, I'm a Republican, and I did vote for Clinton the first time he ran for president. At the time, I thought I was aware of all the true facts concerning the person. I was also unhappy with President Bush because he signed into law a tax increase passed by the tax-and-spend Democrat majority in Congress. He should have used his veto power and sent the bill back to Congress.

As time closed on Clinton's first term in office, I began to learn of some of the facts that we are all now well aware of and was determined not to cast my vote for a yellow-belly, draft-dodging coward, a perverted liar and self-serving hypocrite. (I served my country for eight years in World War II and the Korean War.) Being a Republican, I do not place my pocketbook above honor and honesty. A Democrat, as I now understand them, would say, "I don't care if he did all the things he is accused of doing, I have a new car and money in my pocket, and he's my man." Like a Democrat I once knew, or at least I thought I knew at the time, back in 1948 when the economy in the country was not the best for everyone, said, "What this country needs is another war. Then we would have jobs galore." He knew I was in the military, but it just kind of slipped out. Then he attempted to put a different meaning to what he had just said. Democrats are great for trying to put a different spin on everything.

I wonder if this reminds anyone out there of what they are really saying when they say "Who cares what he's done. The country is in great shape, and that's all that matters."Paul Hennrich thinks Clinton is a "cad." Then I suppose all males are cads in most of our daily activities because we are ungentlemanly and fail to open our car doors for our wives. Then there's W.T. Wood, who is blaming all kinds of Republicans for there sexual behavior in and out of office and fathering a bunch of kids who are running loose. The left-wing Democrats just don't get it. It's not about sex. It's about perjury and obstruction of justice. Period.

JACK BALTHUS

Jackson