Honesty seems to be the hardest word, for everyone is so untrue.
However much the Hollywood and associated set - and avantgarde, 'alternative' types - *diss him, I've ever had - much more than - a soft spot for Billy Joel (the writer of those memorable words in his similarly titled song 'Honesty').
*Far as I can work out, simply because he wasn't into the drug scene like so many, and so - I can only assume - his 'integrity' in that crucial respect was a standing rebuke, even a threat (of sorts) to those who felt such was simply a sign of sophistication. I reckon it's probably the selfsame folk who found (former American President) Bill Clinton's various 'indiscretions' so 'funny ha-ha'...
...whether his swearing black and blue he'd tried marijuana on one occasion but never actually inhaled, or his ingenious - but ultimately wholly unavailing - efforts to dance upon the proverbial head of a pin to avoid taking personal responsibility for his inability to control his baser urges, lusts and other sexual proclivities; whilst using sheer pedantic technicalities - doubtless well befitting a **constitutional lawyer - to likewise get around the impeachment (***process) for allegedly perjuring himself he experienced back in 1998.
**A position I believe Barak Hussein Obama also held prior to his own presidential tenure.
***Because Clinton was of course only 'impeached' by the House (of Representatives), and ****not the (then Democratic Party-controlled) Senate, and so his impeachment was insufficient to see him removed from office. As most would be well aware, the tables (as in respective majorities of Republicans vis-a-vis Democrats and vica-versa) are reversed at present, and so President Trump could well end up in the same sort of position, e.g, being formally impeached by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives while being effectively 'exonerated' thereabouts by the Senate.
And therefore - like Clinton - not ultimately forced to resign from office.
****I admire the likes of Joe Lieberman, the former long-serving Democratic congressman (or senator) from Connecticut who served as Al Gore's running mate back in Presidential Election 2000, because unlike his Democratic colleagues - and like the Republicans by-and-large during Richard Nixon's own (presidential) last days - he was prepared to eschew partisan party allegiance to stand on the side of the American Constitution...
...and against a President, even though from his own side of politics, who ever played fast and loose with the truth...perhaps not so unlike his wife who is on the record as having "misspoken" not only vis-a-vis being "shot at by a sniper in [Yugoslavia]" but being named after New Zealand's own favourite son Sir Edmund Hillary, who of course climbed Everest five or so years after Hillary was born...
Epilogue: Next Time (I return to this topic, hopefully a few days) - the letter in question...and accompanying that (or in a subsequent installment), just why it might be that that well-written 'commentary' went unpublished...
However much the Hollywood and associated set - and avantgarde, 'alternative' types - *diss him, I've ever had - much more than - a soft spot for Billy Joel (the writer of those memorable words in his similarly titled song 'Honesty').
*Far as I can work out, simply because he wasn't into the drug scene like so many, and so - I can only assume - his 'integrity' in that crucial respect was a standing rebuke, even a threat (of sorts) to those who felt such was simply a sign of sophistication. I reckon it's probably the selfsame folk who found (former American President) Bill Clinton's various 'indiscretions' so 'funny ha-ha'...
...whether his swearing black and blue he'd tried marijuana on one occasion but never actually inhaled, or his ingenious - but ultimately wholly unavailing - efforts to dance upon the proverbial head of a pin to avoid taking personal responsibility for his inability to control his baser urges, lusts and other sexual proclivities; whilst using sheer pedantic technicalities - doubtless well befitting a **constitutional lawyer - to likewise get around the impeachment (***process) for allegedly perjuring himself he experienced back in 1998.
**A position I believe Barak Hussein Obama also held prior to his own presidential tenure.
***Because Clinton was of course only 'impeached' by the House (of Representatives), and ****not the (then Democratic Party-controlled) Senate, and so his impeachment was insufficient to see him removed from office. As most would be well aware, the tables (as in respective majorities of Republicans vis-a-vis Democrats and vica-versa) are reversed at present, and so President Trump could well end up in the same sort of position, e.g, being formally impeached by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives while being effectively 'exonerated' thereabouts by the Senate.
And therefore - like Clinton - not ultimately forced to resign from office.
****I admire the likes of Joe Lieberman, the former long-serving Democratic congressman (or senator) from Connecticut who served as Al Gore's running mate back in Presidential Election 2000, because unlike his Democratic colleagues - and like the Republicans by-and-large during Richard Nixon's own (presidential) last days - he was prepared to eschew partisan party allegiance to stand on the side of the American Constitution...
...and against a President, even though from his own side of politics, who ever played fast and loose with the truth...perhaps not so unlike his wife who is on the record as having "misspoken" not only vis-a-vis being "shot at by a sniper in [Yugoslavia]" but being named after New Zealand's own favourite son Sir Edmund Hillary, who of course climbed Everest five or so years after Hillary was born...
Epilogue: Next Time (I return to this topic, hopefully a few days) - the letter in question...and accompanying that (or in a subsequent installment), just why it might be that that well-written 'commentary' went unpublished...
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