Word: judgemental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, the procedural argument really bothered me. If the people elected Clinton, why couldn't we, through our representatives, choose to get rid of him? Why should we be forced by our collective mistake to two more years of aggravation, embarrassment and stagnation? Impeachment, it seemed, was simply a judgement call that Congress would have to make. But as the engines of impeachment began to get in gear, I started to experience a new and very unpleasant feeling--a feeling of political powerlessness...
...every student group on campus need exist for the purpose of satisfying the tastes and needs of other students," agrees Undergraduate Council President Beth A. Stewart '00. "Only the U.C., in my judgement, has an inherent responsibility to be responsive to the whole campus. Other groups such as The Crimson or the IOP [Institute of Politics] may choose to be responsive because it fits with some larger mission, but they may just as well decide that responsiveness is not a priority...
...even a remote correlation. Having an affair, and then lying about it during a deposition taken in the course of a politically motivated lawsuit, are not grounds for impeachment, much less a $40 million investigation gone awry. The President made a mistake, he suffered a "critical lapse in judgement." But the tawdry details aside, he did not commit an impeachable offense. And he should certainly not be only the second President to resign from office simply because he succumbed to the temptations of the flesh...
...disputes that the behavior exhibited by the President in the Starr Report was crass and distasteful. However, it is exactly this visceral reaction that mandates that the American people and Congress resist rushing to judgement by calling for the President's resignation or impeachment. Reason must take precedence over emotion...
...judgement places too much of a burden onthe actions of the victim, not the actions of theperpetrator," Belt said. "She didn't do anythingwrong...