President Clinton

While reading your Aug. 7 analysis about Main Street citizens and their lack of concern about Monicagate and Bill Clinton, I wondered what Main Street your writers visited. They surely didn’t visit my Main Street.

On my Main Street, citizens are concerned and angry that the head law enforcement agent of the U.S. appears to have violated the law of the land by telling lies under oath. And, he’s dragged us through eight months of this.

Clinton is also the role-model-in-chief for America’s youth. Tell me, how is this modeling good behavior for our children?

WILLIAM M. HODGE

Huntington Beach

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If Main Street is weary, then why do the news media continue to devote so much time to all this? Must be money in it, which indicates that maybe Main Street is weary but evidently there are plenty of other streets that aren’t.

To tell you the truth, I wish our elected officials would spend more time doing what they are elected to do and less time in power plays geared toward making their party look good and the other party look bad. Wonder what would happen if they put all of that effort and money into real issues like poverty, education and health care.

KAREN ZUK

Walnut

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In the midst of the Clinton-Starr-Lewinsky escapade, no one seems to mention the one thing that I find most troubling, and that is the issue of taking an oath or making a vow and then breaking that oath or vow. If an oath means so little, why take it? What does it say about us as a people that we expect so little and excuse so much of those we choose to lead us as a nation? One thinks of the oath of office as governor of Arkansas, as president of the United States and of a wedding vow to a wife.

RICK DUNKERLY

Whittier

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So Monica Lewinsky finally told Kenneth Starr what he wanted to hear (Aug. 7). He must be a happy little sleazeball now. I guess it was worth millions of our tax money to find out what we already knew and is none of our damn business. I figure being president is a stressful job and maybe Monica helped relieve the stress.

HARRY CAULEY

Cherry Valley

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Attacks on Linda Tripp, relative to her statements after completing her grand jury testimony, by Mike Downey (Aug. 5) and Bill Press (Commentary, July 31) have shown these men to be liberal Democratic Party hacks completely devoid of human compassion. They prove Rush Limbaugh’s theory that a typical response of liberals when confronted with issues is to attack the individual in order to obfuscate the issue.

In this case, the issue is the majority of Tripp’s testimony to the grand jury that involves intimidation and obstruction of justice by the White House. Issues which the liberal media seem reluctant to discuss. I look forward to Starr’s report to Congress, which will address these issues. Attacks on Tripp will not make the issues go away, they only demean those who make them.

BRENTON SCHOFIELD

Mission Viejo

* What Clinton needs is a falling Starr.

ORV PEASE

Burbank