PARDON ME?

While attending the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention, President Clinton said that he didn't want and wouldn't ask for a pardon if he were to be indicted after leaving office. He said, "I am prepared to stand before any bar of justice I have to stand before." Anyone believing the utterings of a pathological liar must be naive to the core. Indeed, if and when that time comes, Clinton would likely question what the definition of "pardon," is.

When asked about the impeachment, the president said, "But on the impeachment, let me tell you, I am proud of what we did there, because I think we saved the Constitution of the United States. The impeachment was wrong. As a matter of law, the Constitution and history, it was wrong and I'm glad I didn't quit." ...So when, not if, Clinton seeks a pardon it will undoubtedly include the fact that Nixon resigned before a looming impeachment and was pardoned after he left office.

Certainly, the American people and history will judge William Jefferson Clinton fairly when they reflect on statements like, "I consider it one of the major chapters in my defeat of the revolution Mr. Gingrich led that would have taken this country in a very different direction than it's going today." Clinton is correct, for example, he's sacrificing democracy and Elian Gonzales to communism and the stock market is unstable.

In the end, it won't be a question of Nixon and "All the President's Men." Rather, it will be a question of the habitual abuse of power, betraying the office, democracy and "All the President's Women."

In the end, justice for Clinton shouldn't simply be, "Pardon me."

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