As the impeachment trial draws to an end there is much controversy about weather
or not President Clinton should be impeached. Many say yes and many say no. The
President of the United States should be one of the most influential men in our
society, considering the fact that he represents this country before the world
leaders. Wouldn't you like to know that your representative was a law abiding
citizen of the United States? So if he is a law abiding citizen shouldn't the
President of the United States be held to the same laws and punishment as your
average Joe? Or maybe on a stricter basis considering that, again I state, he is
this countries representative that negotiates with other world powers. “I do
solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the
United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of the United States.” This is the oath that Bill Clinton
took before he entered the office of President of the United States. And yet he
perjured himself in a court of law. In Article 2 Section 4 of the Constitution
explains a impeachable offense as “...treason, bribery or other high crimes
and misdemeanors.” Perjury is a felony. So why is it that people feel the
president shouldn’t be impeached, does he stand higher than the Constitution?
That would be my impression if I was a foreigner, that the leader of this
country is above than the law. Some people say that perjury is not enough to
impeach the president. Yet any normal U.S. citizen would be sent to jail for a
few years for lying in court of law. How is it that a regular citizen would be
sent to jail and the president does get “Fired” from the presidency. When he
takes the oath to become president does he gain certain rights? I don’t think
so. Some people also say that the obstruction of justice charge is really
“flimsy”. This is true because the only way they could prove this would be
to get a testimony from Monica or the others involved. In an article I read
Monica said that she loved President Clinton wouldn’t anyone in love lie to
protect the loved one. So they wouldn’t be able to get a testimony against
Clinton from Monica. The other people involved are good friends of the President
and I know from experience you lie to protect good friends. In some would take
the blame for their friends. So they wouldn’t get a good testimony from any of
them either. I think that the perjury should’ve been enough to impeach Clinton
and send him to jail as a average law abiding citizen of the United States of
America. The president should be held to stricter laws than the average
American, because he represents all of the American public in foreign countries.
This is why we should have a morally good president so foreign can trust in the
word of the U.S. If Bill Clinton’s wife couldn’t trust him to keep smaller
marriage vows. Then how can all of the U.S. citizens trust him in the Oath he
took when he entered the office or how the foreign dignitaries can trust him in
negotiations. We need a good moral person that will keep to big promises.
Clinton broke probably the to biggest vows in his life Wedding vows and the Vow
to keep and enforce the Constitution. How can we trust him to keep the smaller
promises? President Clinton should have been impeached at least for as much as
we the tax payers of America spent on the trial and lawyers. Something
should’ve happened instead him getting off pretty easy no punishment at all
for breaking the law. From an experience I was supposedly smoking and the cop
gave me a ticket and a court appearance there I received a 100 dollar
fine....for what? And the President can get off with perjury with no punishment
what so ever. This kind of example is what is ,I think, causing the U.S. to do
stuff they think is all right because if the President can do it why can’t I?
Also I think that since the president is such an example he should be held to a
tighter more strict set of rules. I think that is why our forefathers put
misdemeanors in Article 2 Section 4 of the Constitution.