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Newspapers Urge President to Quit |
Newspapers Urge President to Quit
By Greg Mitchell
Editor & Publisher
Friday 06 January 2006
Outrageous, out of the question? Of course. Then again, here's
what happened in the summer of 1998 when the president was named
Clinton. Dozens of editorial pages clamored for him to quit (see this
list). "He should resign," the Philadelphia Inquirer declared,
"because his repeated, reckless deceits have dishonored his presidency
beyond repair."
What did "I" do? On Dec. 21, I wrote a little news story for this
site about the sudden appearance of the "I" word - impeachment, that
is - in reputable publications. The outrage over revelations about
President Bush's approval of spying on Americans without a warrant was
then at its height, before subsiding to its current level of
what-will-they-think-of-next cynicism.
We got a lot of negative mail about that article, even though we
didn't take a position on the matter, but simply pointed out that the
"I" word was now being uttered in some surprising places (Barron's
magazine?). Certainly, it's no "slam dunk" - to coin a phrase - that
the president should be impeached, and most Democrats don't even want
it to happen, either because they think they can make hay in the
November elections with Bush still in office, and/or they fear a short
but perhaps brutal reign of our own King Richard I.
Still, it amazes me when people make fun of the very notion that a
president under a dark cloud might be asked to leave office, or given
a push, in light of the very recent experience involving one William
Jefferson Clinton. This seems especially poignant, in light of
President Clinton leaving office with an approval rating over 60%,
while the current occupant of the White House sits at around 40%. Then
there's the perennial debate over the relative demerits of fooling
around with an intern vs. fooling an entire country into going to war
based on false evidence (and anything else you'd care to add on top of
that).
In any case, while still not taking a position on impeachment, I
thought it would be interesting to look back at how the press reacted
to the Clinton Crisis of 1998. Did newspaper editorials condemn
Clinton for his screwing around, and lying about it, and leave it at
that, or did they come out squarely for his exit from office?
What follows, from an Associated Press rundown on September 15,
1998, is a long list of newspapers that "called for President
Clinton's resignation." AP added that some of those listed "did so
before the release of Kenneth Starr's report on Sept. 11."
Indeed, the Philadelphia Inquirer responded to the coming of the
Starr report this way: "Bill Clinton should resign. He should resign
because his repeated, reckless deceits have dishonored his presidency
beyond repair."
The Los Angeles Times pointed out: "The picture of Clinton that
now emerges is that of a middle-aged man with a pathetic inability to
control his sexual fancies."
The New York Times, on its Howell Raines-led editorial page,
thundered that until the Starr turn, "no citizen ... could have
grasped the completeness of President Clinton's mendacity or the
magnitude of his recklessness." Yet a Washington Post poll that month
showed that while a majority of Americans wanted Congress to censure
Clinton, they did not want it to boot him out of office.
Here is that AP partial list of newspapers calling for Clinton to
quit (other papers no doubt joined in later):
National:
USA Today
Alabama:
The Mobile Register
Montgomery Advertiser
Arizona:
Tucson Citizen
California:
San Jose Mercury News
The Orange County Register
The North (San Diego) County Times
The Record, Stockton
Colorado:
The Denver Post
Connecticut:
The Day of New London
Norwich Bulletin
District of Columbia:
The Washington Times
Flordia:
The Orlando Sentinel
The Tampa Tribune
Georgia:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Augusta Chronicle
Illinois:
Chicago Tribune
Indiana:
The Indianapolis Star
Chronicle-Tribune of Marion
South Bend Tribune
The Times of Northwest Indiana
Iowa:
The Des Moines Register
Kansas:
The Topeka Capital-Journal
Louisiana:
The Times-Picayune of New Orleans
The News-Star, Monroe
Michigan:
The Grand Rapids Press
Detroit Free Press
Minnesto:
Post-Bulletin of Rochester
Mississippi:
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo
Missouri:
Jefferson City News-Tribune
Nebraska:
Lincoln Journal Star
Nevada:
Reno Gazette-Journal
New Jersey
The Trentonian, Trenton
New Mexico:
Albuquerque Journal
The Santa Fe New Mexican
New York:
Sunday Freeman of Kingston
Utica Observer-Dispatch
North Carolina:
The Herald-Sun of Durham
Winston-Salem Journal
Ohio:
The Repository, Canton
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cincinnati Post
Oklahoma:
The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City
Tulsa World
Oregon:
Statesman Journal, Salem
Pennsylvania:
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
South Carolina:
The State, Columbia
South Dakota:
Argus Leader, Sioux Falls
Texas:
San Antonio Express-News
El Paso Times
Utah:
Standard-Examiner, Ogden
The Spectrum, St. George
The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Virginia:
Daily Press of Newport News
Washington:
The Seattle Times
Wisconsin:
The Post-Crescent, Appleton
The Journal Times, Racine
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010706Y.shtml
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| User: "Spartakus" |
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09 Jan 2006 10:02:43 AM |
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"james g. keegan jr." <jgkeegan@gmail.com> wrote...
Newspapers Urge President to Quit
By Greg Mitchell
Editor & Publisher
Bush doesn't read newspapers, remember. :-) He gets his news from "trusted
advisors". It's worth remembering that when Nixon was caught with his hand
in the proverbial cookie jar, he was a lot more popular than Bush, even
through most of the Watergate hearings.
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| User: "james g. keegan jr." |
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09 Jan 2006 12:29:26 PM |
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In article <dpu1et$hlp$0@pita.alt.net>,
"Spartakus" <no.spam@this.address> wrote:
"james g. keegan jr." <jgkeegan@gmail.com> wrote...
Newspapers Urge President to Quit
By Greg Mitchell
Editor & Publisher
Bush doesn't read newspapers, remember. :-) He gets his news from "trusted
advisors". It's worth remembering that when Nixon was caught with his hand
in the proverbial cookie jar, he was a lot more popular than Bush, even
through most of the Watergate hearings.
i do remember that. i also remember that was a time when most usa
citizens believed it was possible to have a relatively enlightened
government that conducted itself in an ethical manner. i think that is
no longer the case.
we're more a culture of fear now; not optimism. fear of blacks, of
middle-easterners, or asians, of hispanics, of hews, catholics and any
other label you can imagine. for the most part, that fear was
engineered, i believe.
the result is the government we now have.
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| User: "Deopatra" |
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09 Jan 2006 02:11:03 PM |
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X-No-archive: yesjames g. keegan jr. wrote:
In article <dpu1et$hlp$0@pita.alt.net>,
"Spartakus" <no.spam@this.address> wrote:
"james g. keegan jr." <jgkeegan@gmail.com> wrote...
Newspapers Urge President to Quit
By Greg Mitchell
Editor & Publisher
Bush doesn't read newspapers, remember. :-) He gets his news from "trusted
advisors". It's worth remembering that when Nixon was caught with his hand
in the proverbial cookie jar, he was a lot more popular than Bush, even
through most of the Watergate hearings.
i do remember that. i also remember that was a time when most usa
citizens believed it was possible to have a relatively enlightened
government that conducted itself in an ethical manner. i think that is
no longer the case.
This is so true! Many of us remember those glorious, halycon days from
1992 to 2000 wherein we had a president who inspired love and
confidence, at least amongst demmies, by being one of the greatest
draft dodgers in the history of the Republic, a president who snorted
enough coke to sink a Liberian tanker, who raped and assaulted dozens
of women, who perjured himself in a court of law and was impeached for
it, who gave missle guidance technology to the Chinese for campaign
contributions, who stole over 900 FBI files on his political enemies
and who bombed a helpless country for 78 days straight on the basis of
a monumental lie to do with non-existent genocide taking place.
Indeed, those were the good ol' days!
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| User: "Spartakus" |
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09 Jan 2006 02:27:31 PM |
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"Deopatra" <Rumprider_Ridge@hotmail.com> wrote...
james g. keegan jr. wrote:
i do remember that. i also remember that was a time when most usa
citizens believed it was possible to have a relatively enlightened
government that conducted itself in an ethical manner. i think that is
no longer the case.
This is so true! Many of us remember those glorious, halycon days from
1992 to 2000 wherein we had a president who inspired love and
confidence, at least amongst demmies, by being one of the greatest
draft dodgers in the history of the Republic, a president who snorted
enough coke to sink a Liberian tanker, who raped and assaulted dozens
of women, who perjured himself in a court of law and was impeached for
it, who gave missle guidance technology to the Chinese for campaign
contributions, who stole over 900 FBI files on his political enemies
and who bombed a helpless country for 78 days straight on the basis of
a monumental lie to do with non-existent genocide taking place.
You must be posting from that alternative universe where Mr. Spock has a
goatee.
Indeed, those were the good ol' days!
Thanks goodness our long nightmare of peace and prosperity is over.
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| User: "james g. keegan jr." |
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09 Jan 2006 03:03:07 PM |
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In article <1136837463.794851.66600@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
"Deopatra" <Rumprider_Ridge@hotmail.com> wrote:
X-No-archive: yesjames g. keegan jr. wrote:
In article <dpu1et$hlp$0@pita.alt.net>,
"Spartakus" <no.spam@this.address> wrote:
"james g. keegan jr." <jgkeegan@gmail.com> wrote...
Newspapers Urge President to Quit
By Greg Mitchell
Editor & Publisher
Bush doesn't read newspapers, remember. :-) He gets his news from
"trusted
advisors". It's worth remembering that when Nixon was caught with his
hand
in the proverbial cookie jar, he was a lot more popular than Bush, even
through most of the Watergate hearings.
i do remember that. i also remember that was a time when most usa
citizens believed it was possible to have a relatively enlightened
government that conducted itself in an ethical manner. i think that is
no longer the case.
This is so true!
yes it is, and as i said:
"we're more a culture of fear now; not optimism. fear of blacks, of
middle-easterners, or asians, of hispanics, of hews, catholics and any
other label you can imagine. for the most part, that fear was
engineered, i believe.
the result is the government we now have."
i take it you agree with that too, since you deleted it.
of course, you're an example of that hatred too.
Indeed, those were the good ol' days!
indeed.
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