Clinton administration's actions have created a serious credibility gap

Recently I read a letter to the editor stating that our president has no real ethics problems. Somebody is either living in a cave or they DID inhale. Let's take a brief look at the present Administration:

The GAO says ethics investigations of the Clintons are costing taxpayers a cool $1 mil per month. Clinton has invited terrorists to the White House (Yasser Arafat, Gerry Adams), also drug dealers, murderers (unless you don't consider running over protesters in Tiananmen Square with tanks to be murder) foreign organized crime lords and gun runners. Have I forgotten anyone?

In a time which held out the possibility of renewed animosity between the races fueled by the media's slanted reporting of church burnings, Slickforce One recounted burnings during his childhood which never happened. The Clintons never bothered to report their earnings from Hillary's 1980 commodities trading (you remember: she turned $1,000 into $100,000) until they were exposed in 1994.

Over 900 private FBI files of Republican opponents found their way to the White House for "show & tell." (During King Richard's reign Chuck Colson went to prison for ONE such file.) This guy actually has people dropping dead around him: Vince Foster, Jerry Parks (who was MURDERED in a Mafia style hit.) But I guess if you support this man, what's a few stiffs here or there?

Clinton accused Bush of being callous for sending the boat people back to Haiti, saying, "I wouldn't be shipping those poor people back," yet when he became president he did exactly the same.

At present we have a MAJOR scandal brewing: Evidence indicates that the DNC accepted contributions in return for which the administration looked the other way on human rights violations in Asian countries which would have resulted in stiff penalties for the companies involved. And let's not forget about the very suspicious $250,000 given to former attorney general Web Hubbell by the Lippo Group.

"The most ethical administration in U.S. history"? Only in an alternate universe.

P. S. If this letter ever sees print in the Wildcat I will be amazed.

By Leslie R. Woodville
Arizona Daily Wildcat
February 10, 1997