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Thank you for reporting on the people who are stirring up a witches' brew of vilification against the Clintons ((POLITICS, April 11)). The despicable actions of these hatemongers, whether motivated by greed, jealousy or revenge, threaten the well-being of the U.S. In these difficult times our nation desperately needs the great leadership that President Clinton is able to provide. Let us pray that he and his wonderful wife survive and succeed in spite of these sharks...
...than in "surreal" derivative products defies logic. The implication that there is some sort of "crisis" lurking in the wings is similarly bogus. You have only to look at recent history to see there is no market that has a monopoly on risk or fails to appeal to human greed. What is troublesome is the notion that we must be protected from ourselves and cannot bear the consequences of our individual decisions. The last thing we need is ill-informed legislators decreeing some misguided form of capitalism in which people can take risks but are bailed out by the rest...
...film has made Oscar Schindler the Holocaust hero. His very human qualities his greed, his lusts, his apathy are displayed as evidence that normal people can do great good. If Schindler could become a humanitarian...
...rich, he did not just present it as a necessary measure for reducing the deficit. He presented it as just desserts -- fitting retribution -- for those who had made it in the '80s. Clinton would avenge the little guy on those who cashed in on the Decade of Greed. Now it turns out the President and his wife spent much of the decade trying to cash in themselves, albeit ineptly (hence the $69,000 loss -- alleged and unclaimed on their income tax returns -- on Whitewater...
Even the President's friends came to realize the dangers of moral hubris, particularly as revealed by a generation of '60s reformers who campaigned against the '80s as the Decade of Greed. "They think of themselves as the most ethical people in the world," says an Administration insider. "They think everything they do or say is aboveboard and for the good of the country. Therefore they can't understand why someone would doubt their integrity. That is a big part of the problem...