Freep Poll: Do you think the Enron investigation is as serious as Whitewater

CNN ^ | January 12, 2001 | CNN

[VRWC_minion]

Do you think the Enron investigation is as serious as Whitewater?

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[VRWC_minion]

Poll to Freep on top Right

[jwfiv]

I just voted No. A poll at CNN is first cousin to a poll at Democratic Undrground, I'd say the deck is stacked.

The only way it is as serious as Whitewater is the xlinton/Enron connection, the junkets, the greasy palms. Absolutely none of that with Dubya and his posse. This is a rock the Dems won't really bother looking under very closely for the slime is their own.

[Doctor Raoul]

I just voted "no" too.

[John Jorsett]

Do you think the Enron investigation is as serious as Whitewater? Yes 64% 453 votes No 36% 258 votes Total: 711 votes

[GB]

I agree that the Dems won't go underneath this rock. And as I said in an earlier thread, the best and smartest strategy for G.W. to take is to keep this above politics, to keep this totally in the civil/criminal realm and to turn the investigation toward finding out if people directly involved with this apparent Ponzi scheme of a corporation violated laws (my gut feeling is that they did). If they did, then bring the full force of the U.S. judicial system down upon them and make them suffer the consequences. That way, when the Dems later this year and in 2004 start labeling the GOP and G.W. as being lackeys of the satanic, eeeeeeevillll corporations, G.W. can say, "Au contraire" and point to the evidence. Not only will it be the right thing, I think it will play quite well with the American electorate.

[ml/nj]

"Whitewater" was a 20 year-old, five-figure land scam that the Great Stainmaker used to divert attention from six and seven figure bribes he was receiving, and other contemporaneous illegalities.

"Enron" is the collapse of the seventh largest company in the United States.

So far there hasn't been much chance for an Enron investigation, and the Whitewater investigation was always a charade.

I'm not sure how to vote.

ML/NJ

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I look at it as though it is "serious", BUT ~ it is going to backfire on them and open up a can of worms Clinton and Gore would wish they had left coevered. If it implicates the Dems, would it not be as serious? I see it could refer to it applying to Bush (Whitewater is to Clinton as Enron is to Bush) but that isn't so, truthfully. They are going to destroy themsleves.

oh well. Time for popcorn.

[f.Christian]

We should go with the bias--vote liberal on cnn polls...

if they don't rig it---they just erase the poll and change it to something less embarassing!

Vote spin and let their bias show---it's their game--you can't win!

[illbenice]

hurry and freep! polls at

69%yes

to

31%no

[illbenice]

"We should go with the bias--vote liberal on cnn polls... if they don't rig it---they just erase the poll and change it to something less embarassing! Vote spin and let their bias show---it's their game--you can't win!"

LOL, thats actually a great idea.

[andrew]

This is a prime piece of media bias:

First off the media has imbedded in us that the Whitewater investigation was unimportant to begin with. Secondly, the media is telling us day in and day out just how important the Enron investigation is. But the comparison is on its face a false comparison.

Bill and Hillary Clinton were involved as investors in Whitewater and were never doubted to be involved, illicitly or not, with the situation.

An investigation into Enron is not necessarily an investigation into George Bush. Until an allegation, credible or otherwise, of Bush wrongdoing, there is no reason to make a comparison of Whitewater and Enron. It is unfair and manipulative, and the question is unfairly drafted to create a result that justifies their obsession over covering it.

That said: The investigation into the collapse of the 7th largest company in America is more important than the investigation into a two-bit sham real estate investment. But that is obvious and does not negate the Whitewater investigation, its 12 convictions and its rightful blight on the Clinton political record.

[rwfromkansas]

THere is never a point to Freep a CNN poll. We lose anyway with their rigged polls.

[rwfromkansas]

good point

[Cicero]

I'm surprised they even mentioned Whitewater. I thought the defining scandal was still Watergate, and Whitewater was just a little bump in the road.

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

I don't know a lot about this Enron problem, but it would appear that Bush did not bail out or use his influence to save Enron. If he did, that would be a foreseable issue, but he did nothing. I don't see where the scandal is here. If he made money off of this (unlikely since he has to sell his stock), that could be a scandal, but nothing here reeks of a scandal, could anyone freepmail me exactly what illegal activity could possibly have been done since to my untrained eye it appears he did nothing wrong accept have a friend who it would appear was a unsuccessful and perhaps crooked businessman, but he cannot be held guilty by association in a rational (I know Democrats are not rational) world.

God Bless

[stylin19a]

actually, I'm thinking we should be voting "yes". The RATS take a worse hit in this investigation, than the Repubs.

The trouble is, I'm thinking CNN is trying to create a nexus, where one doesn't exist. Whitewater was about the man in the white house. Enron is not.

[Clara Lou]

What a silly poll question! "Serious" in what way? It's extremely serious because so many people lost their retirements in their 401Ks while the top guys at Enron made a killing. They ought to be held responsible. However, it's not "serious" as it relates to the POTUS and his administration.

[zog]

--your observations are correct. I am not going to freep the poll myself. I think it would be smart for both parties core activists to NOT make an issue of it, for their political party's sake, BUT, as an independent american, I welcome both parties grassroots activists actively working towards full exposure, as I feel in the long run it will be really healthy for both parties to cast off the globalist traitors they have in their party's top leadership positions, and to get the rest 'scared straight".. And if "the enron scandal" helps to accomplish this, so much the better. SOMETHING really big needs to happen to the US political scene. I had hoped it would have happened with the all-GOP congress and the klintgoon whitehouse, during that era, the "republican revolution" era, there were scandals galore to choose from, and because it did not, well, this is big chance # two right now, near as I can see. Government by the bribe needs to end, period.

[Enlightiator]

Freeped, with my vote the latest:

Do you think the Enron investigation is as serious as Whitewater?
Yes 49% 507 votes
No 51% 532 votes
Total: 1039 votes

[VRWC_minion]

Created: Fri Jan 11 13:43:39 EST 2002

Do you think the Enron investigation is as serious as Whitewater?
Yes	48%	516 votes
No	52%	557 votes
Total:  1073 votes

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