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Fucking beautiful. My little coastal town of Arcata is the first city in the U.S. to officially call for the impeachment of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. Please read the whole story here.
If I needed one especially compelling reason to have left magical Manhattan behind for this comparatively tiny, liberal haven of 16,000, I have it now. Bill Clinton, while a far-from-flawless leader, was impeached for the embarrassingly innocuous act of lying about a blowjob. Should he have lied? No. Was it anyone's business but Hillary's? No. Clinton was impeached not for jeopardizing our national security, not for launching a pre-emptive strike against a supposed "enemy" of democracy, not for increasing our national deficit tenfold, but for being a selfish, egotistical male with uncontrollable libidinous tendencies whose only crime (if you must use that harsh a word) was breaking his marriage vows through the act of adultery. Consensual adultery, mind you, with a woman who, while naive, was well over 18 and well aware she was giving it up to the leader of the free world. More power to her. And nothing but grief to that sorry excuse for a human being, Linda Tripp, who did a horrible disservice to this country by sticking her nose where it undoubtedly did not belong and exposing the idiotic scandal that was little more than a bit of horny extramarital endeavoring (albeit in the Oval Office).
Clinton was impeached for responding to his natural hormonal urges, participating in the great human pleasure fest with someone other than his loyal spouse. Big fucking deal. Countless other presidents dallied with starlets and secretaries during their administrations, yet no ball-busting Linda Tripp-ish yenta dared expose them.
That's not to say I believe Bush should be impeached. Not while we still have thousands of troops in Iraq--American and others--fighting, killing and dying in order to clean up BushCo's mess. Simply preventing the man who wasn't fairly elected in the first place from gaining another four years to monumentally fuck up this country--that would be enough for me. I've heard people refer to tonight's debate as "the beginning of the end" for Bush, tenative hopefulness amongst Kerry supporters slowly giving way to unbridled optimism. Impeachment is unncessary if we use our democracy the way it was intended and simply fire the goons. Let that be the best gift we Americans can give our country this year.
Posted by ayelet at October 8, 2004 04:42 PM