I have received many comments, many positive and some negative, regarding my political parodies of Kansas songs.  I fully expected this, given the volatile nature of politics and the particular crisis that our president now faces.  The positive comments have been quite supportive and appreciative, but a few of the negative comments have gone so far as to suggest that I have a personal "hatred" for President Clinton.  In reality I do not hate him, but I am quite suspicious of his motivations and am concerned about his apparent lack of any center of personal conviction beyond the conviction that he must stay in office and that he must have a positive legacy, regardless of the cost to others or to the country at large.  In other words, I'm more concerned about what he is doing than with his being a Democrat or a liberal.  For any who do believe that my parodies are nevertheless simply partisan politics, I will say that if this current scandal in all its particulars were happening to a Republican president (Dan Quayle, for instance), I would be writing parodies that would in one way or another call for his resignation for the same reason I believe that Clinton should resign: for the good of the country.

        (Incidentally, in my opinion, Clinton's resigning for the good of the country would be just the thing both to resolve the crisis and to cement his legacy as a president who, in the end, put the country's interests beyond his own.)