Re: BY By Tommy boy Ford kicked out!!
But relevant in that he exposed the city to the possibility of a compromised Chief Magistrate, by putting himself in the position of potentially being blackmailed. Doing the immoral is one thing and you're right, I'm not the sort of person who is likely to re-elect an immoral person. Doing something that is illegal is a different thing altogether. That's doing something that's typically immoral, while also having been determined to be counter to the public good. The person who does that sort of thing, while in office, is the sort of person I want out off office NOW.
*EDIT* I forgot to comment on the "lying under oath" thing. While this is a rather pointy-headed argument and ultimately the findings were counter to this, Clinton wasn't lying under oath by the rules set out by the court, itself. For purposes of those hearings the court defined having sex in the very narrow terms of actually engaging in sexual intercourse. As Clinton and Lewinsky never engaged in sexual intercourse, Clinton was actually not committing perjury. In order to find him to be committing perjury they actually had to alter the definitions, after the fact. This information is readily available, but ignored by his detractors.
If your criteria to have him removed from Office
NOW is the fact that he did something Illegal then he has yet to be charged of anything. In front of the law -According to your criteria- he should still be in office as he is.
The city was not compromised, he didn't do anything that caused harm to the city in relevance to blackmail. Potentially doing something is not actually doing something, but I will confess, I haven't follow every single issue brought forward on his investigation so if in fact he was blackmailed and he did something that will damage the city in relevance to being blackmailed then i regress
Its funny how you are able to rationalize what Clinton did but yet you can not stand what Ford has done, I find that very interesting.
Saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" is the same as Ford saying "I might have done some crack cocaine during one of my drunken stupors, maybe around a year ago"
Ford implied he may or may have not while Clinton danced around a question and used a technicality to try and excuse a lie, they were both morally wrong when doing it and I personally don't care as long as they take care of the business of governing; In the other hand, you seem morally comfortable with that Clinton did, I think cheating on your wife shows less character than someone smoking crack cocaine but hey, we are all different.
Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, he lied under oath on the Paula Jones case, the fact that the charge failed in the house is of no consequence, he lied under oath, as a matter of fact, this was the real cause why the investigation started.
Just to clarify as i know my tone most times comes out as if i am upset, I am not, this is an enjoyable conversation.