Word: moral
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Bill Clinton's latest imbroglio carries a valuable lesson in self-government. This lesson speaks to the fundamental presumption of democratic self-government, that the people have wisdom and virtue enough to elect politicians wise and virtuous enough to rule. That presumption is at bottom a moral one because it presumes a moral people...
...moral according to Jackson? "Until the railroad owner's at the table, it's nothing but a joke," he said...
...Tucker's many defenders were ardent, but in the end the law proved equally so. Karla Faye Tucker, despite her professed moral and religious restoration, was a brutal double murderer. For that she died...
...town, of presents sent by courier, of a dark dress saved as a souvenir, spattered with the President's DNA, the American public began stripping Bill Clinton of the benefit of the doubt. A TIME/CNN poll last week found half of Americans saying he lacks the moral character to be President and should be impeached if the charges prove true...
...often claimed that a nation gets the leaders it deserves. The TIME/CNN poll shows that 54% of Americans think the President's moral standards are "about the same as the average married man's." While it's hard to tell whether this is good news for the President or bad news for average married men, the real danger for Clinton is that what had once been mostly confined to the back of the national classroom is now up at the chalkboard giving lessons. The problem for the President isn't that Leno, Bill Maher and Conan O'Brien are talking...