Clinton still had an approval rating of 57 percent. Bill Clinton is not the problem and never was. Clinton is just the obvious symptom of the problem. Some business leaders are another.
If they did not, Clinton could not have maintained a 57 percent aproval rating all during his last years in office. This scandal only proves that some wall street people share Clinton's morals as well. They are not alone. Over half the population shares Clinton's moral beliefs. The media does not understand that.
The Democrats expect the public to buy the charge that Bush and Cheney engaged in insider trading. They public will buy those charges. The polls show 43 percent of the population thinks the charges are true as of now. What that means is that 43 percent of the population would have engaged in insider trading, if they had been in Bush or Cheney's shoes. They can't even imagine them not doing it.
The Democrats will be shocked to find that even when over 40 percent believe the phoney charge, the Bush approval ratings will barely go down. The public does not condem people for doing what they would do themselves. The 40 some percent of the population that believes the charges may be more inclined to think less of Bush if he did not use his position to engage in insider trading.
That is the legacy of the 60's generation.... a generation that invented if it feels good do it ... it is good for you do it. When moral and immoral became relative views that are up to the individual, there are no morals. We could not convict Clinton in the public arena on real charges The Democrats will not convict Bush with the public on phoney charges.
Clinton is an example of our decline in morality. We will have to fix ourselves, before we can hope to fix businessmen or politicians.