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Once again something I've read has put me in a foul mood. When this happens, Psychic Chuck always says, "Then don't read it if you think it will put you in a bad mood." Easy to say for a man that shuts the TV news off as soon as he sees George Bush's mug. Chuck says Bush makes him psychically sick.

What put me in a foul mood was an article by populist cinematographer, Michael Moore, in the left wing magazine, In These Times. Moore is another one of those emotional, angry Nader supporters who is still trying to rationalize his support for Nader by writing the article, "Give the Devil a Bone,"repeating the same old nostrum adnauseum that Bush and Clinton are just the same(he doesn't mention Gore, but Nader did over and over again, saying there was no difference between the two candidates).

I've become increasingly sick of emotional diatribes like Moore's, whose article is filled with exaggeration and wrong information. Perhaps he's a low level, weepy water sign like Ralph Nader, George Bush, and the United States, constantly emoting defensively, launching irrational arguments based on bias rather than objective analysis.

For example, Moore blasts Clinton for waiting until the last minute of his administration to sign those ergonomic regulations that Bush set aside as soon as he got in. Further, he criticizes Clinton for not pushing through the lowering of allowable arsenic levels in the water sooner, standards that Bush also rescinded, soon after he took over the White House.

According to other sources like Salon and the Amy Goldstein article, "Clinton's Last Minute Rules" in the Washington Post Weekly Edition(June 18-24) that I have sitting in front of me, the ergonomic rules,(which were begun eleven years ago by Elizabeth Dole, the Labor Secretary, under George Bush I),were held up for three years by a Republican led Congress. Congress also stalled energy efficiency standards and mining regulations. Last October they screwed up the implementation of the arsenic level standard, and postponed it for six months until the new administration could look it over and get rid of it if they were so inclined.

Claiming that Clinton didn't get anything on the liberals wish list accomplished and stating it is better to have an open evil in the White House rather than a wolf in liberal sheeps clothing is dangerous as it is disingenuous. To ignore the formidable obstacles that Clinton experienced from the very beginning of his presidency, created by the hateful and vengeful right wing Republicans that were enraged when they lost the lock on the White House, is myopic and ignorant. The only bad thing that Clinton did was to accept a blow job from a young woman and then lie about it. All the other accusations against the Clintons came to naught, wasting millions of tax payer dollars in the Republican led vendetta. Realistically, how many other individuals would have been able to keep their sanity under such pressure much less perform as perfectly as the liberals would have liked. How about Michael Moore or Ralph Nader. Would they have performed perfectly and gotten all their political goals accomplished under that kind of right-wing pressure? One thing you can say, no pretty young woman would have offered to give either one of them a blow job.