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Clinton Under Fire
Deceit
Immoral
Disgrace
Forgiveness
Sympathy
Onward

"How do you expect to get respect from any country?"
- Beverly Gangwer, Mason
Now that you have disgraced the presidency, why not resign with dignity and let Vice President Gore salvage the rest of the term of office?
- Patricia Charles, Mount Washington
Because actions speak louder than words to most thinking people, how can our citizens and other nations now respect your leadership, and what kind of role model have you become?
- Bob Lippert, Wyoming
I worry that, during impeachment hearings the Republicans will drag out as long as possible, nothing constructive will be accomplished by you, your administration and Congress.
- Thomas S. Tucker, Wyoming
How do you expect to get respect from any country, any person, when you conduct yourself as you have?
- Ronald J. Wellman, Colerain Township
Mr. Clinton, you had sexual contact with a government intern in the workplace. All over the country executives are losing their jobs for that. You are not above the law.
- James E. Graham, Crescent Springs, Ky.
If a person in a position of authority in our company were to be caught up in a situation such as (yours,) I can assure you he would be removed.
- Dave Schildmeyer, Symmes Township
Who in this country or worldwide, now or in the future, will believe or follow you . . . and why should they? You have lost our faith and trust.
- William Smetts, Mason
You have lost the respect of the nation by not respecting the nation. You are the main topic of jokes now and any credibility you had is lost.
- Chuck Carothers, Sharonville
You have brought the office you hold down to the level of filthy jokes. No one takes you seriously!
- Beverly Gangwer, Mason
What were you thinking? I know, you weren't thinking, at least not with your head. Now everyone knows how yucky you really are!
- Maura Muenchen, Pleasant Ridge
How can you continue to ignore the disgrace you have brought upon our great country?
- Matt Dunaj, Montgomery
You have used women like a typical cad. I have no respect for your wife (she has only her agenda in mind). I am a teacher and you are no role model for children.
- Robin Kramer, Bridgetown
How can you lead our nation? You can't even lead your own life. Not only have you embarrassed yourself, you've embarrassed our country.
- Matt Kramer, Bridgetown
Your behavior as governor of Arkansas was disgraceful. The Democratic party and the press should never have allowed you to become one of the nominees for president. Shame on the party.
- Mike Adams, Anderson Township
For the good of the country, I think you should resign. No leader of any other country will ever take you serious again. This country is a joke to the world, and the cause is you.
- Edward Kleimjohn, Colerain Township
Please resign from office. You no longer have the trust of the American people and cannot be an effective leader any longer. You are not the proper role model for my family.
- William Rueve, Westwood
When we elected you president, we also elected Al Gore as vice president. Now that you have disgraced the presidency, let Mr. Gore salvage the rest of the term of office.
- Patricia Charless, Mount Washington
Forgiveness can be given. However he should resign from the office. The country will be held in the grip of this scandal until he is gone. Now is a chance for him to be forthright and do the honorable thing.
- Darla Louderback, Sardinia
If you really care about this country and its people you will resign now and not cause any more harm and embarrassment to our nation and the office of president! You are not above the law!
- Mary Ann Sichak, Loveland
I believe that what has been printed so far has only scratched the surface of your acts of irresponsibility. As our elected CEO you should resign, as would be the fate of any other corporate CEO.
- Mary Jane Abraham, Anderson Township
Do one decent thing in your life and resign to save the American people money and embarrassment. This would be a simple way to end this nightmare.
- Shirley Filippi, Golf Manor
Why don't you do one honorable thing in your life and resign?
- Benny Dryer, Versailles
But, if you don't want to cause any more pain to the American people, you will resign before you have to say you are sorry for: Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Chinagate, and God only knows what next.
- Marian Frohlich, Reading
Save us all further embarrassment and shame. Resign before the sun sets today. Then seek forgiveness and try to rebuild your life.
- Jerre Willis, Hamilton
You should resign. I don't think you are fit to hold the office of the president.
- Allen Prichard, Bridgetown
Give the country a break - resign.
- Hugh Head, Fort Thomas
If you have one ounce of decency left in your body, resign.
- Ethel Donabedian, Cherry Grove
I think you should resign. The American people expect and deserve a leader who is above reproach. If you remain in office you will be sending the worst possible message to the youth of America.
- Shirley Combs, West Chester
Please resign from the office of President of the United States. Please save your daughter and our country from further embarrassment.
- S.A. Everest, Anderson Township
If you care about your country, as you say you do, resign. You have already pulled us apart. Do one unselfish thing in your life - go before we are pulled apart further.
- Theresa and Robert Damess, Anderson Township
Please resign.
- Hazel Schlagheck, Anderson Township
I'm deeply troubled, Mr. Clinton. For the good of the country you so profess to serve, you should resign and yet you cling to power and locate the blame on anything but yourself. Please GO!
- Elsa Bowman, Landen
Do the honorable thing and resign. Raise the legal fees of your defense with your own funds. Save your daughter the embarrassment.
- Michael Hardin, Milford
You are a disgrace to the nation and office of president. Please resign now to prevent further harm to our country. We can do better.
- Dean Strief, Whitewater Township
Shame on you and Mrs. Clinton for allowing this nightmare to happen to this wonderful country and especially Chelsea. She has tremendous burdens she doesn't deserve.
- Naomi Devitt, Mason
As a new parent . . . I certainly would not want my child to consider (Mr. Clinton) someone to model her morals after. . . . The only time he seems to come close to honesty is when he has no other choice.
- Barbara Larhem, Colerain Township
The country will suffer, if you don't resign. Do it for the good of the country, the kids and your own party. . . . By the way the legal parsing of the definition of sex is really childish and pathetic!
- Dan Naylor, Dillonvale
This report and your past activities - both personal and business - indicate you need to resign and seek professsional help.
- Michelle Long, Crescent Springs
How could you put this country through such turmoil? It is a major distraction and will continue that way until you resign.
- Marjorie Drackett, Cincinnati
You are a disgrace to this country. Resignation is too good for you. I hope you are impeached as soon as possible.
- Janice Ries, Dillsboro, Ind.
It's time for you to accept responsibility for your actions. Please step down or resign. You have been a disgrace to the office of the president.
- Larry Owens, Clinton County
You are a national disgrace. Your lack of respect for the American people, truth, decency, or your official responsibilities, demonstrates your unworthiness to hold office.
- Anna Graf, Liberty Township
Your sexual promiscuity is really not the problem. The fact you try to explain it by stating that what's moral and ethical is different than what's legal it is an affront to the intelligence of the American people.
- Jerry Jospess Sr., Colerain Township
I don't believe you have the common decency to resign your office even though . . . any thinking person can see it is the only way you can be of any future benefit to yourself, your family, or Americans.
- Lawrence Routt, Blue Ash
I would say, "You have humiliated and embarrassed us for the last time." At that point I would turn sideways in the seat and with both of my feet kick him out of the car.
- Linda Marshall, Covington
I have contacted my congressman and told him that I support your impeachment. Would you save voters and taxpayers the expense and time of an impeachment proceedings? I request that you resign.
- Mary Ann Edwards, Springfield Township
You are a disgrace to our country. You are an insult to the lowest form of life's intelligence. Exhibit your "manhood" in another manner. RESIGN.
- Greg Grimme, Fort Thomas
You have embarrassed our country, hurt your wife and daughter. You have made a mockery of your presidency. Please be a man and bow out gracefully.
- Laverne Smith, Covington
I would ask why he would want to continue in a position when he, through his own actions, has compromised his integrity, honesty, and moral standing. You made all of this personal by lying to me via the television speech where you denied any invovlement with Lewinsky.
- Timothy Sexton, Cincinnati
You have asked us to forgive your transgressions. I can do that. With repentance comes atonement. You must accept the consequences for your actions. You have disgraced your office. You should resign or be impeached.
- Darlena Graham, Crescent Springs
Please for the good of the nation and of decency you possess, resign.
- John and Jo Catiller, Alexandria
The state of your soul is on my mind. I think you should go to see Pope John Paul II . . . There is no one on earth more qualified to help you.
- Anne Broderick, Western Hills
My concern about you is your emotional state, your lack of an essential anchor. The dilemna is how to balance this weakness with your ability to be an appropriate leader. I am a liberal Democrat.
- Ellen Bloomfield, Blue Ash
I think you are exhibiting unstable, sociopathic behavior and are no longer emotionally fit to lead the country. Please for the sake of the country and your family, resign and seek help.
- Charlotte Kutyls, Mount Washington
I would like to ask, "Why did you wait almost 4 years with all the cost of the investigation to finally say you did have something to do with Monica."
- Elizabeth Hicks, Goshen
I just want you to know that your willingness to resign is the first step in forgivenesss. Words only have meaning when they are followed up by action.
- Eric Merz, Florence
Sen. (Bob) Packwood was forced to resign from the Senate for a lot less than what you did. Were you one of the people calling for his resignation?
- Jeff Stacy, West Chester
I am quoting from my three-year-old's Dr. Seuss book: "If you wish you may go by lion's tail. Or stamp yourself and go by mail. Marvin K. Mooney! Don't you know the time has come to go, GO, GO !!! (You may substitute your name for Marvin's.)
- Jackie MacCoy, Kenwood
If you think your sins are worse than those who relentlessly investigated you for most of your presidency, then resign. Our entire political system should go on trial, not just you, Mr. President.
- Ed Beckman, Colerain Township
RESIGN!!!!!
- Dan Sullivan, Western Hills
You may have erased your opportunity for future success (as president), and to try to continue would be wrong for the country you love, and for the world. You still have a lot of time to spend with Hillary and Chelsea.
- Don C. Lycan, Lebanon
Your only choice is to resign from the presidency. You need professional help to get over your sexual addiction. You are not alone suffering from the disease and with help there is hope of resuming a normal life. The disease has kept you from realizing the damage you have
- Cathy Ulm, Madeira
I am very embarrassed and unhappy about your conduct. I really think for the good of the country you should step down and save us going through impeachment proceedings.
- Mrs. John Travis, Loveland
I think you are a disgusting liar and cheat. Resign now so we can have some honor in Washington and our country.
- Mary Ann Meyer, Bridgetown
You are everything that's wrong with our country. Please resign and begin to set a moral example for our youth.
- Jack Ayer, Milford
It's the character, stupid.
- Stanley Wang, Montgomery
Forgiveness is what you seek. I can forgive you. But it does not mean that you shouldn't be accountable for the past misconduct that you have displayed in office.
- Jenny Walden, Anderson Township
If you do not resign and your fellow Democrats do not help to impeach you, I will never vote for a Democrat again and I have been a lifelong Democrat.
- Dorothy Kreyenhagen, Liberty Township
I don't want a president whom I can't trust or understand. I don't want to have to need a semantics professor to interpret what you say and mean. . . . Just go!
- Janet D. Reames, Blue Ash
The highest honor in this country was bestowed upon you, which you elected to disgrace. Honest atonement on your part requires that you resign.
- Craig and Mary Hudson, Blue Ash
Your wreckless immoral and criminal acts have sullied the presidency and embarrassed our nation in front of the entire world. Resign or face impeachment.
- Joe Higbee, West Chester
I am curious to understand why you felt that we would forgive you anything just because we re-elected you.I knew about your shady past but felt that you had ideas that were good for the country.
- Bette Ridley, Avondale
If you had any shame, you would have resigned months ago. We have had only three or four other presidents whom I would rate as sleazy - and only Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy were in your league! They, however, never lied about it under oath.
- Carl Denbow, Athens
As Mr. Clinton exhorts his fellow Americans to "do the right thing," he does the wrong thing, again and again. Remember the Big Boy commercial of some years ago: Should he stay or go? Mr. Clinton should go.
- Julia Ward, Oxford
Your presidency is damaged beyond repair and you should step aside for the good of the country.
- John Trebbien, West Chester
He (should) resign. . . . By staying in office, he is taking away the meaning, value, and importance of a true marriage.
- Jessica Morris, Latonia
Sir, you lead me to believe that you value your status as president more than our country's best interest. I therefore do not trust the lives of my three sons in your hands. Prove me wrong sir, I beg you . . . resign.
- Donna Parrish, North Avondale
I supported you from the very beginning, but you have let me and many Americans down. . . . Because you have lied . . . it would be in the best interest of the United States for you to resign.
- Melissa Miller, Highland Heights
If you care about the American people and family values and you truly feel my pain, then why don't you resign? I can no longer respect you because you lied to the American people . . .
- Mary Brofft, Loveland
You should resign immediately since you have shown such a lack of ability to lead the country, especially our children, by your example. . . . I am also disappointed at the immaturity of your actions.
- Jean Brady, West Chester
For the real good of the country, you may want to reconsider and resign from the job.
- Jerry Sandage, Anderson Township
Please help our country and resign.
- Harold Bielstein, Finneytown
I believe that if the president did lie on the stand then he should be impeached.
- Chad Barber, Hamilton
How about all the people who have been fired, demoted, etc. because of affairs at the workplace? Monica lost her job over it, the same should happen to him.
- Sherry S. Ahrmann, Hillsboro
As commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, you upheld the discharge (without honors) of Lt. Kelly Flynt following the exposure of her extramarital affair. In light of your recent activities (and acknowledgment of them), do you think . . . you should be held to the same standards?
- Janel E. Carroll, Kenwood
After reading parts of the Starr report and the rebuttal from your lawyers I think for the good of the country you ought to resign. I further resent the fact that you wagged you finger at me in January like I was a naughty first-grader in the principal's office and blatantly lied to me regarding your relationship with "that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."
- Laurie J. Amelung, Fort Mitchell
What were you thinking? I know, you weren't thinking. At least not with your head. Oh yeah, you're not the first, or the first to get caught, but come on, Bill.
- Maura Muenchen, Pleasant Ridge
Please commit to treatment and an ongoing recovery program for your addiction. Ask the American people to support you for this process.
- Kate Powers, Oakley
Please, please, resign!! You are a disgrace to our country!!
- Joan Rinit, 66, Lawerenceburg
Whether you are Œlegally' correct or not, whether what you have done constitutes an impeachable offense in a strict legal sense, you can only truly redeem yourself and take responsibility for your actions by resigning.
- Mary R. True, Milford
What does honor mean to you? Is honor important to you? If honor means to you: high regard, respect and good reputation and, if these things are important to you; then, do the honorable thing.
- Mark Braun, Fort Mitchell
You have harmed the citizens of our country and humiliated us throughout the world. Spare the United States further harm. Resign.
- Valerie Ratchford, Mt. Washington
In the armed services, if they are caught having an affair, they are court martialed and lose everything they have worked for. I think you should resign and make things right with yourself, your God and your family.
- Barb Blackwell, Colerain Township
Your presidency has become an international joke, and you are the jester. Spare your country, your family, and the people who elected you, further humiliation. Resign now.
- Kenneth A. Baumann, Reading
How can you think you are above the law of the land? Perjury is perjury, no matter who you are. Do one thing nobel in your life - resign.
- Mary Ann Krusling, Springfield Township
Tell me, Mr. President, how does it feel to have publicly humiliated your daughter? I understand she's considering not returning to Stanford this year.
- Fred Tivin, Finneytown
Don't tell me again you're sorry, I still remember you telling me for seven months "I never touched her." . . . The bottom line is you lied to me. You're no longer trustworthy and you should resign from office ASAP!
- Rick Miller, Cincinnati
Please, go back to Arkansas!
- Bob Taylor, Oakley
You are the most disgusting, embarrassing, disheartening president ever perpetrated on the people of this country. . . . Any decent man would resign.
- Fred J. Kellerman, Cincinnati
For the good of the country you ought to resign the presidency now. It has become apparent that you have perjured yourself and attempted to obstruct justice. Who can believe what you say now?
- Jeanne L. Schardine, Fairfield
I have been a Democrat all my life but I could never back you because if I did, I would be shaming my country. . . . Not only are you dishonest and a liar but you have shamed our country. . . . Please resign and get out of sight.
- Charles Ruebusch, St. Bernard

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