Jim, I don't want to sound like a broken record--I've made this argument before here recently so I'll be brief--but if you look all the way back to Whitewater, there is just an endless stream of obfuscations, missing documents, friends of Bill who end up going to jail but get jobs at Revlon because Vernon Jordan is on the board of directors, tax audits that seem retaliatory, payoffs from the Tyson chicken company, amazing profits in the commodities markets, tapes where Clinton is saying if everyone just denies something, there is no proof, Cabinet members under investigation or indictment, Buddhist nuns on the run, etc., that his basic honesty is now under the gun. This is by no means a complete list!!
I believe that Americans who are very concerned about this--with the exception of the far right, which admittedly has an ulterior motive--have seen so much of a pattern of careful semantics, lawyerly evasions, denials that gradually become partial acknowledgments, and extremely poor judgment that they are tired of it. The fact that this latest crisis rings so many familiar bells with people who really wanted to trust Clinton is driving it more than the sex per se. If the allegations are true, they are indeed yet another example of extremely poor judgment.
This is a column which ran yesterday in the San Francisco Chronicle. This writer is usually quite liberal and tolerant. I am sharing it with you because I think it expresses sentiments that a lot of liberal, tolerant Americans share right now:
sfgate.com
P.S. I'm glad you had a wonderful time at dinner. On the other hand, I hope you didn't do anything that Billy wouldn't do with that lovely lady!!! |
