At 06:30 PM 1/23/98 -0800, Tim May wrote:
But I had been marveling at how the Clinton troubles were being ignored by the Cypherpunks...I figured we were all so jaded about government and the criminals who flourish in Washington that there was no point in commenting on this latest revelation of corruption. (The apparent perjury, suborning perjury, and witness-tampering, not the affair with Lewinsky, however tawdry it was.)
I was talking to Hugh yesterday, and he asked if I'd heard the big news - no, not Clinton's sex scandal, the important news, about the Netscape browser source code being freed :-) (This was before the news on the Unabomber confession broke.)
(Actually, I threw in an aside yesterday about "President Gore," but no one picked up on it.)
If the Democrats think Clinton's going down anyway, they're probably better off having him resign now and give Gore a couple years in office, since he'll probably be re-elected if the economy stays strong (probable) and if the Republicans don't come up with a useful candidate (probable); if he has to be Vice-Clinton for two more years, he's got minimal chance of election even if the Republicans come out with another bozo, because Gore will be more tainted and still just waterboy.
Personally, I think having a crippled and ineffective President is better than having an activist bozo President Gore, so I'm kind of hoping this whole affairs takes several more months to unwind.
Yeah - especially since President Gore would have to start off by Doing Something to get some positive momentum, and it would probably be doing something bad to the Internet. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639