This Levee won't Break

The Benton Courier: "I was a Bill Clinton supporter. When the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, it was an embarrassment to all of us. There was no justification for his behavior or his lies. There's no way around that.

His actions in that scandal will haunt him the rest of his life. It will also mar what was otherwise a fairly effective presidency, as current events and historians are already bearing out.

But despite a George W. Bush presidency filled with lies and inexcusable fiascos, his supporters usually answer with one thing: 'At least he didn't use the White House to get a (insert favorite name here for Clinton's favorite sexual act).'

They will not acknowledge that this administration has been a mess. They won't truly consider the seriousness of what this administration has wrought and the lengths it has traveled to accomplish its predetermined agenda.

It continues up to the moment, with Halliburton and other Bush supporters' companies being given no-bid contracts for Gulf Coast cleanup just as they were in Iraq.

It goes on and on, but you won't hear that from the 39 percent (AP-Ipsos) who still say George W. is doing a good job as president. They'll simply continue telling us that the president is not having sex in the White House.

Thank goodness for that."

Mike Dougherty, Editor

I'm continually amazed that so many people can manically and maniacally support this loser even after so much of what he says is shown to be patently false. It's no less than sheer arrogance that a person would continue to appear so dishonest, especially when one considers how rabidly the same loyal dogs descended on Bill Clinton.