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PINE BLUFFS – Those who follow these things know that the University of Kansas defeated Memphis in San Antonio, and was crowned the 2008 NCAA college basketball champion. Now, we can all once again turn our attention to  

. . . the election of a president in November.

Did we miss anything during “March Madness?” Well, yes and no, depending on how you look at it. While our attention was focused on the large round ball being fed through a hoop by large angular college kids, Republican presidential candidate John McCain (R-AZ), who strongly backs the current U.S. war strategy in Iraq, attempted to assure American voters that “I detest war.” He’s hoping Reagan Democrats and those pesky “undecided voters” will not get the impression that his views are otherwise on the subject.

Did anyone believe that Mr. McCain actually likes war? A career navy pilot, his jet fighter was shot down over North Vietnam during the Vietnam war, and he was captured and interred in a Viet Cong prison camp for several years. He is, therefore, well aware of the evils of war, and not eager to get us involved in conflicts if elected president at the end of 2008.

However, to his credit, almost from 9/11/, he has recognized, as most statesmen have, that we are at war with Islamic fundamentalists; extremists who hate the West, especially the United States, and seek to destroy us. This is in strong contrast to many liberal Democrats, who refuse to believe that anyone could be serious about that sort of thing, and continue to bleat that if we withdraw our troops from Iraq and just “make nice” with the Arab world, all will be well.

In a recent televised debate, one Democrat presidential contender, Barack Hussein Obama, stated his position; if elected he would immediately withdraw our troops from Iraq even if he were strongly advised against this by our nation’s top military commanders. He also said he would hold direct talks with Iran, a regime which refuses to recognize Israel, which is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, and has called for Israel to be “wiped off the face of the earth.” 

Mr. Obama justifies his calls for troop withdrawal by claiming that the war is lost, our strategy is a failure, and the cost to us in loss of life is simply not worth it. Almost every evening, NBC, ABC, CNN and other major news outlets, parade the casualty figures before the Nation, with stories about grieving families of soldiers killed by enemy fire. This is a tactic calculated to sap the will of Americans to do what is so obviously seen as the right thing by most of us. The media wants us to believe that the casualty figures are extremely high.

Well, of course, the death of even one American soldier is a terribly sad event. But given the type and intensity of this war, is the annual casualty rate really that high? What is it in comparison to prior years? Let’s examine some figures, going back to 1992, and the beginning of Mr. Clinton’s presidency:

Year:         Number of Deaths:

1992 …………. 1,293

1993 …………. 1,213

1994 …………. 1,075

1995 …………. 2,465

1996 …………. 2,318

1997 ………….   817

1998 ………... 2,252

1999 ………… 1,984

Thus we can see that during the eight years a Democrat was in the White House, 13,417 soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen were killed, either in battle or in accidents. Those figures include Bosnia and Somalia, both minor in scope compared to Afghanistan and Iraq. During those years, no major war was in progress.

So how many American troops have been killed, either in combat operations or otherwise during the years Mr. Bush has been in office? The answer will surprise you - 9,453. Here’s the breakdown:

Year:            Number of Deaths:

2000 ………….1, 983

2001 ………….   980

2002 ………….1, 007

2003 ………….1, 410

2004 ………….1, 187

2005 ………….   919

2006 ………….   920

2007 ………….   901

2008 to date...  146 (Including April)

Did you know that? Rather eye-opening, wouldn’t you say? Now I understand that these figures, taken from a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, may not be totally accurate. But they are certainly close to accurate, and they tend to show that our major Media and liberal politicians are very selective in what they present to the public. In fact, since the so-called surge, American military deaths have actually decreased on a monthly basis. Okay, so even this lower figure is tragic. No one denies that the sacrifice has been enormous. But putting it in perspective, Afghanistan and Iraq have been serious and central battles in the War on Terror. Our engagement in Afghanistan has resulted in removal of the Taliban from power and depriving Al Qaeda of bases from which to launch terrorist operations. Likewise, Iraq has taken center stage, and our effort there has toppled a brutal dictator, freed his people from tyranny, and begun the slow, tedious task of building a Democracy in that nation of 50 million people.

But for Democrats, eager to take the White House after 8 years, this is not good enough. They continue to promise a way out of Iraq: withdraw our troops and bring them home. Talk about “peace with [dis]honor.”

However, now that the troop increase sought by President Bush and Mr. McCain – the so-called surge - has produced favorable results, reducing the number of enemy attacks and resultant casualties, the Republican presidential nominee told reporters on his campaign bus recently, “A significant number of Americans believe we should come home with honor, not with disgrace and genocide. We must stay in Iraq [and finish the job we started] to help Democracy take hold in the Middle East.”

I agree.

 PINE BLUFFS – Two years ago, in April 2005, I attended a meeting in Cheyenne, WY, where Bishop David Ricken announced diocesan plans to establish a four-year Catholic College in this state. “What a super idea,” I thought doubtfully. “Too bad it’s an impossible task.”

Why did I think that? Because since 1886, the University of Wyoming had been the only college in this state offering a four-year degree. Oh, yes, there are other colleges here: Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington, Casper College, near Casper, and various Community Colleges throughout the state, such as Laramie County Community College (LCCC) in Cheyenne. But these are all two-year schools funded by the state and supported by revenue derived from Wyoming’s vast energy resources; coal, oil, gas, and uranium, to name just a few. But to get off the ground, this new Catholic College would be dependent upon private philanthropy and donations from Roman Catholics in Wyoming and around the nation.

For the next two years I watched, fascinated, as a small group of dedicated individuals under the able leadership of Bishop Ricken and Father Robert W. Cook, planned and acted upon what, at first, had only been a glimmer of an idea; a laudable but perhaps unattainable concept.

In the fall of 2007, that dream became a reality! Based upon the Great Books program, which has become popular nationally in the last thirty years – Saint John’s in Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM is an example - the new college welcomed its first freshman class last August, on 2,300 acres of land formerly known as the Broken Anvil Ranch, donated by Joe and Francie Perkins. The site, 12 miles south of Lander at the edge of the magnificent Wind River Mountain Range, is contiguous to vast federal government holdings administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The College has leased 6,300 acres of that land for a Freshman Orientation Program which will be conducted jointly, annually, by the National Outdoor Leadership School.    

The stated purpose of this new college, according to its Brochure, is to “produce capable and cultivated human beings . . . designed to offer an education that forms whole persons in their three dimensions: physical, intellectual, and spiritual.” And then there’s this: “WCC will provide an abundance of opportunities for creating a rich community culture on campus. It will fortify and enrich students in their faith, helping to establish lasting friendships, and refining their lives through art, culture, and tradition.”

“Really?” I thought. “Well it sounds nice, but isn’t that just hype, put out there to attract students to the new institution? Imagine my surprise, then, when I received this letter last month from Reverend Robert W. Cook, now President of the new College. It’s a heart-wrenching story of tragedy, courage, love, family, and the community of love formed, as promised, at the fledgling College. The material in italics is mine.

“February 2008

My dear friends in Christ,

Roslyn is eighteen and the oldest of the Gwilliam sisters from Jackson, Wyoming. She applied for admission to Wyoming Catholic College because as she said: ‘I wanted to grow stronger in my faith and learn to live a full life.’ As part of the College admission process, Roslyn wrote an essay on her other goals in which she said that ‘one of the benefits of attending WCC is to learn to express myself clearly.’ She noted that ‘too many kids I know speak, write and feel in random fragments that seem to reflect their distracted lives. I want to be an articulate speaker and good writer who tries to understand the deeper meaning of real things.’

Roslyn grew up in a family full of love and confidence. ‘My Mom is not only my home-school teacher but also my best friend.’ In addition to her studies, Roslyn enjoys 4-H activities, barrel racing, teaching CCD [now Faith Formation] classes, and volunteering at a local homeless shelter. ‘I love to go hunting with my father,’ Roslyn said. ‘It gets us out on the horses into God’s country and gives us some one-on-one time.’

Over the years, Rolsyn’s father, Dr. Tim Gwilliam, built a successful veterinary practice in Jackson, Wyoming. Whenever he could, Tim would take his daughters into the mountains to scout and hunt. ‘Dad wasn’t big into putting trophies on the wall,’ according to his oldest daughter. ‘Instead, with seven kids to feed, he liked to put meat in the freezer.’ However, Roslyn’s father did keep his best elk ivories for something special. When each of his girls turned sixteen, he would give them a custom-made elk ivory ring.

Roslyn loved her father’s quiet confidence. He worked hard and poured his energy in[to] his family, faith and friends. During tough times, Roslyn remembers how her father would gather his family around the long dinner table that he built with his own hands. ‘He’d bring us all back to basics – family, our love for each other and our faith in God.’ Tim Gwilliam also had a number of little family traditions that his daughters loved. ‘Each time that Dad left his family, he would trace the Sign of the Cross on our forehead and say ‘God be with you.’

On Saturday, January 28, the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, Father Robert Cook, WCC President told students at the College Mass that he’d like everyone at the College to pray for the Gwilliam family. He explained that on January 26, the Feast of St. Timothy, Dr. Gwilliam had died in a terrible accident at his clinic. Earlier that day, Dr. Tim was by himself quartering a horse after performing an autopsy. While making an incision, he slipped and cut through his own femoral artery.

Tim died within minutes while wearing the same brown scapular that his wife had given him over twenty years ago on their wedding day. The students, faculty and staff of Wyoming Catholic College offered Masses for the family, praying also for the repose of the soul of Dr. Gwilliam.

On February 1, First Friday Devotion to the Sacred Heart, with sadness and also with strong faith, the Gwilliam family brought Tim’s body to Our Lady of the Mountains [Roman] Catholic Church in Jackson where they had worshipped faithfully for nearly two decades. The church was packed for the funeral Mass. Tim’s pastor, Father Joe Geders, described Tim as a man like St. John Bosco ‘. . . who put the care and education of his beautiful family above all else.’ It was not surprising, then, that the family asked that in lieu of flowers, memorials be sent to Wyoming Catholic College where a Scholarship Fund has been established in honor of Dr. Tim Gwilliam.

Roslyn recalled that just before her father’s death, he shared with her that he had never felt stronger in his faith or closer to god. In the fall, Tim purchased seven journals. He spent two weeks on each journal, writing ten pages of love to each of his daughters. At Christmas, Tim put them in their stockings. He wrote to one of his daughters, ‘Just know that I’ll always love you, through thick and thin, good and bad. I might not always seem to understand, but I’ll always keep trying.’

After the funeral, Roslyn told her mother that as the oldest child she might want to postpone college in order to help care for her sisters. Her mother looked quietly at her and said, ‘What do you think your father would say?’ Roslyn looked a little puzzled.  Her mother reached over and traced the Sign of the Cross on her forehead, whispering, ‘God be with you.’

Roslyn will visit the College in March when she will meet the other students, stay in a dorm, attend daily Mass and sit in on classes. ‘The WCC student body acts a little like an extended family,’ according to Dr. Mitchell Kilpakgian, the College’s humanities professor, who has written extensively about the beauty and mystery of family life. ‘We have here a true community built on faith and love and so I expect that these students will help Roslyn get through these tough times.’

Please join the entire community of faculty, staff, and students at Wyoming Catholic College in prayers for Dr. Tim, the whole Gwilliam family, and especially Roslyn as she will soon take her next step in the journey of life this fall at our college.

In Christ,

Rev. Robert W. Cook

President”

Two years ago, I became so excited by this wonderful new plan for a Roman Catholic College which would teach traditional Catholic Christian values steeped in Western Culture to college-age kids, that I eagerly watched the school’s progression from idea to reality, even traveling to the site – which is so beautiful it  rivals that of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs – sending its brochures to everyone I knew on both east and west coasts who had teen-agers, and contributing a portion of our family tithe, on occasion, to its support. Indeed, the conviction formed in me that had such a school existed when my own kids were of college age, I’d have sent them there.

Perhaps I cannot expect that many others will be so struck by this dream - as I have been - that they will open their wallets and purses. But, in this time when desperate, dispirited youngsters on college and university campuses across America are showing their complete alienation and disillusionment with an increasingly secularistic college experience, to the point of violence against their fellow students and themselves, can we not at least recognize the need for such a place?

Father Cook again: “All students at the Wyoming Catholic College benefit from scholarship funds. Nearly half the cost of each WCC student’s education is supplemented by these scholarships and by other non-tuition income.”

Okay, so now you know where I’m going with this. Yes, I know that in addition to our own local parish church there are many charities clamoring for our contributions. And yes, I understand that our funds are finite – that we also need to support ourselves and our families – within our limited means. But I can’t conceive of a better use for my money than to donate a bit of it to such a worthy cause. What about you? 

To see more about this College, go online to www.wyomingcatholiccollege.com.

PINE BLUFFS – Now that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has wrested the Republican presidential nomination from his able opponent, Mike Huckabee, he can look forward to the Republican Party’s 39^th nominating convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul in early September, and the race to the November election.

But in order to become the next President, he’ll need to first unite his Party. And he’ll need to do it while campaigning against the historic candidacy of either a woman or a black as his Democrat opponent, both of whom said, on the morning talk shows Wednesday, March 5, 2008, that they see a path to the Democrat nomination. To become McCain’s opponent, however, each faces approximately seven more weeks of grueling campaigning before the outcome will be known.

Buoyed by her two big wins in Texas and Ohio, an ebullient Hillary Clinton spoke to supporters: “Voters are finally focused on who they think would be the best commander-in-chief,” New York’s junior senator said.

She must now attempt to convince voters that SHE is best suited for that job. Actually, her campaign has already begun the task, painting her opponent as “inexperienced in foreign policy,” and claiming that she will be “prepared to be commander-in-chief from day one.”

Of course, only the politically naïve will believe that. Eight years as First Lady, while her husband floundered through two scandal-ridden terms, does not “a commander-in-chief make.” Nor, as the insignificant junior senator from the great state of New York, has she had much experience since then. But a look at Bill Clinton’s failed policies in just one area of foreign affairs may give us an idea of just what Hillary Rodham Clinton might do if elected President in November.

On February 18, 2008, I wrote: “Pursuing his misguided policy of ‘constructive engagement’ with the Chinese – which I described extensively in my creative non-fiction novel, The China Connection (Writers Club Press, an imprint of iUniverse, Inc. Lincoln, NE. December 2003), and fueled by millions in illegal campaign contributions from the Chinese and several high-tech American corporations, Mr. Clinton mounted a ferocious campaign to beg, borrow, or buy enough Congressional votes to give the brutal Chinese dictators the victory they wanted [most favored nation (MFN) status]. This, at the very time when Republican Congressional members were reminding him that Congress was about to examine the question of whether national security was compromised by the Clinton Commerce Department’s transfer of missile technology to China.

“These transfers prompted House GOP Conference Chairman John Boehner, a traditional MFN supporter, to say that even support for the annual extension [of Most Favored Nation Status to China] was in peril because Clinton had not swiftly put to rest suggestions that the missile technology waivers were connected to big Democratic campaign contributions from Loral Space & Communications, Ltd. chairman and CEO, Bernard Schwartz.” See The Hillary and Bill Show: Same Old, Same Old, www.quazen.com; also see my website, www.saccoservices.com.

What, exactly, was Boehner talking about back in 2000? What were “the missile technology waivers” to which he referred? Despite Justice Department officials’ fears that a satellite transfer to China might jeopardize an ongoing criminal investigation into illegal campaign contributions begun in 1998, senior White House advisors – led by National Security Advisor Samuel R. (Sandy) Berger - had recommended that Mr. Clinton approve a waiver permitting “dual use technology” to be exported to China. The deal involved exporting by Loral of a communications satellite to China for launching, despite the well-known fact that China was surreptitiously examining and replicating our nose cone technology prior to each launch, in order to move its stalled military and civilian space programs forward. Documents revealed on May 22, 1998, showed that Clinton and his advisors were repeatedly cautioned that the transaction might have legal drawbacks, in that it would violate Tiananmen Square era sanctions against China. Many also feared it might harm U.S. national security interests.

When it became known that a similar transfer by Loral in February 1996, had helped China learn of and correct a serious flaw in its launching rockets, Congress became concerned that China could use this information to perfect guidance systems on its long range nuclear missiles. At that time, China had only a small number of missiles capable of reaching U.S. territory. Investigations revealed that Loral, with millions of dollars and business relationships in China at risk, had actually given a report to the Chinese detailing how they could improve their rockets, BEFORE consulting with State Department export licensing authorities. Loral insisted that no laws were broken and that the report did not violate our national security.        

The matter was deemed so serious that Senate Foreign Relations Chairman, Jesse Helms (R-NC), said on Saturday, June 6, 1998, that he suspected a link between political contributions to Democrats and Clinton Administration decisions on missile technology exports to China. Later the bipartisan Cox Commission reported that, helped by these transfers of “dual use” technology, China’s military rocket program had been advanced by approximately 50 years.

So, what became of Sandy Berger? He went on to “bigger and better things.”  What, exactly? Attempting to protect his friend Bill Clinton, Berger stole documents from the National Archives in advance of the 9/11/ Commission hearings in 2003. The documents, written by White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, were a “tough review” of the Clinton administration’s shortcomings in dealing with terrorism, Clarke’s lawyer told the Washington Post. Berger stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators. He was charged, tried and convicted in 2005, given a two-year suspended sentence, a $50,000 dollar fine, and had his security clearance suspended for three years. But that did not stop John Kerry (D-MA) from hiring him as his presidential campaign’s National Security Advisor. Such is the fervor to win among Democrats. However, when the scandal broke in 2004, Mr. Kerry, not always a stickler for following the letter of the law, was forced to fire him.

What’s Berger doing now? He has assumed a similar role in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign! This spectacular act of poor judgment on Hillary’s part is raising eyebrows even among Clinton’s admirers. Why? Because if Hillary wins the Democrat nomination she’ll be given National Security briefings, and Sandy Berger, a convicted felon whose security clearance may or may not be restored, will be at her side.

And what of Bernard Schwartz, Loral Space & Communications, LTD’s President and CEO? The revealed documents referred to above “raise some troubling issues . . . they make clear that Loral’s chief executive . . . was personally involved in pressuring the White House to approve the waiver,” said Benjamin R. Gilman, Chairman of the House International Relations Committee. Despite being involved up to his arm pits in this affair, Mr. Schwartz, whose company donated more than $1 million dollars to Democrats in 1996, and who personally donated more than $1 million dollars to Democrat candidates and $581,000 to the Democrat National Committee in that same election, became Hillary Rodham Clinton’s New York campaign manager during her initial run for the Senate from that state. In politics, money talks. Big money talks louder.

So, did President Clinton sell American foreign policy to the highest bidder in return for campaign contributions? And if he did, what of Hillary’s pledge while campaigning recently, “to restore conditions in the economy and the government to the way they were during her husband’s administration.” Do we really want that? If you’re not convinced yet that we don’t, read on.

The 1996 Campaign Finance scandal was, well ... big. Charles Ya Lin Trie, a former restaurant owner in Little Rock and long-time friend of Mr. Clinton, was also involved in campaign financing abuses during the ‘96 elections. In January 1998, he was indicted on charges of illegally funneling $600,000 dollars to the Democrat National committee (DNC). In 1996, he gave $640,000 dollars to President Clinton’s Legal Defense Fund, which was returned after the Fund said it did not know the source. The donations included checks with signatures that matched those on other checks and money orders numbered sequentially but from different cities.

Ng Lap Seng, a Macao real estate and casino tycoon was also involved in the 1996 scandal. According to FBI records, between 1994 and 1996, Trie received more than $900,000 dollars in wire transfers from Ng, who is based in Macao. A correlation between the wire transfers and money given by Trie to the DNC was established. But in February 1998, when congressional investigators sought permission to travel to Hong Kong and Beijing to examine financial records for Trie and Ng at the Bank of China branch offices in Macao and Hong Kong, the Chinese government blocked their efforts by refusing to release those records.

Chief Judge Johnson had bypassed the court's computer-randomized assignment system and miraculously ended up assigning fellow Clinton judicial appointees to oversee six criminal cases involving Democrat fund-raisers and Clinton crony, Web Hubbell.

John Huang, a leading figure in the Justice Department’s investigation and, as mentioned above, one of the persons making up the composite character of Johnny Chou in my book, was not charged. The DNC returned $1.6 million dollars of the $3.4 million Huang raised in 1996, after officials determined that its sources were unknown or the money had come from foreign nationals. As explained in my book, Huang, a former official of the Lippo Group, also worked for the U.S. Commerce Department and the DNC, where he was a top fundraiser. The White House had arranged his DNC job.

James Tjahaja Riady, President of Lippo Group, an Indonesian conglomerate, was a former employer of John Huang. Riady was also prominently mentioned in my book. He paid a record $8.6 million in criminal fines and pled guilty to a felony charge of conspiring to defraud the United States by unlawfully reimbursing campaign donors with foreign corporate funds in violation of federal election laws. Under the agreement jointly announced by the Justice Department's Campaign Financing Task Force and the United States Attorney in Los Angeles, Riady agreed to surrender himself to the court’s jurisdiction despite the lack of an extradition treaty between the U.S. and Indonesia. His fine was the largest ever imposed in a campaign finance matter in U.S. history.

In addition, LippoBank California, a California state-chartered bank affiliated with Lippo Group, pled guilty to 86 misdemeanor counts charging its agents, Riady and John Huang, with making illegal foreign campaign contributions from 1988 through 1994.

All in all, 26 people and two corporations were charged by the Campaign Financing Task Force, which was established by Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate allegations of campaign financing abuses in the 1996 election cycle. The two corporations were Loral Space & Communications, Ltd and Hughes Electronics, although, as explained in my book, Lockheed-Martin was also implicated in violations of laws against the illegal transfer of “dual use technology” to foreign countries.

And now we have Norman Hsu.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, he arrived in the United States at age 18, obtained a B.A. degree in computer science from the University of California, and an MBA from the Wharton School in 1981. He made a small fortune in the garment industry, gained the trust of investors by his warm, friendly demeanor and educational credentials, but developed a reputation for changing addresses and leaving disgruntled investors behind. In 1990, he declared bankruptcy in Foster City, CA, and his wife divorced him. In 1991 California authorities brought fraud charges against him describing his operation as a Ponzi Scheme. In 1992, he pled no contest to one count of grand theft and agreed to serve three years in prison and pay a $10,000 dollar fine. However, he did not surrender to authorities, but fled to Hong Kong where he lived from 1992 to 1996, in luxury, until he again declared bankruptcy there. In the late 1990s he returned to the U.S. despite his fugitive status and in 2003 he began contributing to the Democrat Party.

By 2007, Hsu’s status within Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign had become that of a “Hillraiser,” someone who had demonstrated that he could “bundle” more than $100,000 dollars in contributions. He hosted a $1 million dollar fundraiser at wealthy Democrat supporter Ron Burke’s estate in Beverly Hills and was seen co-hosting several fundraising affairs with Loral’s Bernard Schwartz.

In 2006, former President Clinton had referred to Hsu as “Our friend, Norman.” After indications of the scandal began to appear in he Press, and Hsu’s long time fugitive status was disclosed, 2008 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton began to disengage from Hsu. The campaign decided to refund $850,000 dollars in “bundled” contributions. Although she was the first candidate to give up “bundled” contributions from Hsu’s associates, her campaign had ignored earlier private warnings about Hsu. She was the largest recipient of such contributions from him, but her campaign did not begin to return donations until AFTER the scandal became public.      

Has this type of activity contributed to Hillary’s recent string of primary losses to Barack Hussein Obama? After all, those losses just might say lots about the public’s desire to be done with the Clintons. One would hope that Americans don’t want another soap opera presidency. Let’s hope the Clinton “magic” is now gone. 

March 4 in Texas and Ohio should have driven a stake in the heart – and hopes- of Hillary Rodham Clinton to become the first woman president of the United States. It did not. She won Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island’s primaries to keep her floundering campaign alive. Yet, since Obama did not emerge a clear winner, the Democrat Party’s primary season will continue until at least June, in Pennsylvania. That should do it, although if I had my druthers, I’d prefer to see the two of them fight it out right up to the Democrat Convention at the Pepsi Center in Denver August 25-28, consuming energy and funds which might otherwise have been used to oppose John McCain earlier.

I think that we, but Democrats especially, don’t want to return to the non-stop scandal defense mode of the Bill Clinton years in Washington. Many Democrats sought to convince us that Bill’s nefarious actions were “all about sex” and nothing more. That’s absurd. We had the travel office caper, the subpoenaed billing records, Whitewater, Vince Foster, and the FALN; all of these kept special prosecutor Kenneth Starr running at top speed.

Paraphrasing a National Review writer whose name I cannot now recall, Bill and Hillary Clinton remind one of Nietzsche’s description of the will unbridled by ethical restraints. In the amoral exploits of Bill Clinton, we see grand ambition reduced to the pursuit of immorality and even treasonous behavior. Together, the Clintons make it difficult to believe that democratic politics can avoid the excesses of unbridled ambition, although I firmly believe that practiced by moral individuals, it can.

Any close analysis of the eight-year Clinton presence in the White House must lead to this conclusion: in this election year in which hollow, naked ambition draws closer to the presidency, we really do not want a repeat of the Clinton psychodrama as part of our daily lives – for another four years.

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