There's bad people everywhere, Neocon, it seems to me the people leading the Senate trial have plenty of glass house problems. Nobody ever claimed Clinton was a saint. But it's not a black and white world, and assuming "guileless" Paula Jones speaks the unadulterated truth in this mess seems to me quite an assumption.
Then there's the ever popular Kathleen Willey, a bit of innuendo that will never die. I'm with Julie Steele on that one, I'm sure you're cheering for the Starr Inquisition to beat the "truth" out of her there. Willey's got other credibility problems, though.
Ms. Steele's version of events is only one of several accounts of the Willey matter. There is Ms. Willey's accusation of a pass and the president's absolute denial. There are the accounts of two friends of Ms. Willey, Linda Tripp and Harolyn Cardozo, who have both said that Ms. Willey was happy about a pass she described from the president. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/110198clinton-steele.html)
Now, the heroic Linda Tripp wouldn't lie about what really happened with Willey , would she? I imagine at the core, the Willey matter and the Jones matter are similar, something happened but nobody's telling the real truth of the matter. You want to continue to paint a black and white world where Clinton is the antichrist and the root of all evil, be my guest. That particular story's been told here any number of times.
As to Monica, it was consensual, and by all accounts Lewinsky knew exactly what she was doing. I have sympathy for her, she may or may not deserve a better lover than Clinton, but she certainly deserved a better "friend" than Linda Tripp.
Hey, you left out Drudge's latest "scoop" on Jane Doe 5, or whoever. Seems to me that Drudge has been in a little bit of a slump lately, but I don't keep tabs other than what gets regurgitated here. |
