Get out your red pencils and circle today's date on your calendars ... Rick and I agree on something political!!
Rick says: "... what is your point? i like this guy so i don't want to go into his background. i hated (deleted), so let's check anything and everything. where is a left wing conspiricy when we need one?"
... Note, that if you insert the word NIXON in the space where Clinton's name was deleted, that is EXACTLY the song that was sung by the Democrats throughout the 90's ... It seems to have become an altogether unpleasant and disabling part of the political process ...
In issuing the pardon to Nixon, Gerald Ford said that the long national nightmare was over ... his statement in that case was just one more of those shots shanked into the crowd instead of down the middle of the fairway.
It seems that instead of being over, it was just beginning ... each side has microscopes all over (and in the various orifices of) the other, seeking anything to maim or wound the opponent and in the process, it is we who are being wounded ... hell, FDR and Ike had mistresses, but their indiscretions were not made the subject of some vast (or half-vast) witch-hunt ... but Nixon, who was SO easy to hate, changed everything forever ... now we spend our time looking for dirt on their guy because THEY looked for dirt on OUR guy ...
As a result of that having become a fact of life, the most truly able are discouraged and disuaded from seeking public office and who can blame them? Our Democrat AND Republican choices for the most important job in the world have been getting fewer and less worthy as the microscopes bore in even more closely and if something doesn't change, there will come a time in the all too near future, when no one from either party with any competence at all will be willing to seek the job ...