President Clinton’s ‘Moral Turpitude’

* The media simply don’t get it! By continuing to bring up President Clinton’s “moral turpitude” (so-called) they demonstrate their inability to interpret events except to their own advantage. If the public truly believed everything the media have dished out about Clinton over the years he would have been impeached and ousted at the time of the Monica Lewinsky affair. Even now they are still trying. Constantly we read, “Whatever the public opinion may be . . . ,” the implication being negative. Not so. The public is not stupid. Public opinion is based on what the public perceives about his performance as president. Stop trying to make us all a bunch of moralistic, do-gooder, born-again Christians. Al Gore will make up his own mind.

JILL OLECHNO

Seal Beach

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Morals and morale took a hit under this president’s watch. The too-often-heard comment today, mainly among our youth, is a seeming innocent statement--”whatever.” It implies: Who cares about anything, whether right or wrong? This attitude reeks of boredom and complacency. Contrast that to a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will find it not.”

I pray that our next president can help reverse this “whatever” trend, turning us in a new direction of hope for the future.

ROBERT G. SMITH

Anaheim

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George W. has been spouting off about President Clinton causing embarrassment to our country. As I remember, it was Republican members of Congress and professional Clinton haters (many of them clients of Richard Mellon Scaife and the Rutherford Institute) who forced Clinton to discuss his personal life in more detail than the average American cared to know.

Come on, Georgie, let’s put the blame of embarrassment where it belongs--with the voyeurs who were inflamed by political opportunism and hatred of the president.

LOUISE RICHARDSON

San Diego

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The next time you’re being ripped off at the gas pump, consider the fact that oil multimillionaires Bush and Dick Cheney are running for president and vice president. Kinda makes you think, doesn’t it?

BARRY MORTON

Thousand Oaks