OFF TOPIC, JDN, I always thought Hillary should have been the one to run for President.
I don't like Clinton, the man, much either. However, I am not so sure that he is, at heart, any different from most other men. If all the men and women in Congress, who had affairs refrained from the vote on impeachment, I wonder if there would be a quorum.
Be that as it may, I think American women vote for him because they make the distinction between Clinton, the man and Clinton, the President.
Even Monica Lewinsky made that distinction when she was recently cross-examined by Representative Ed Bryant.
Since Ms. Lewinsky has spent hour after hour detailing her description of her physical relationship with Clinton to Mr. Starr, one wonders if the Congress drags out these impeachment proceedings for their own titillation. I mean, how many other ways, can Ms. Lewinsky describe what she and Clinton did?
Indeed, Representative Bryant, said, after he questioned Ms. Lewinsky:
"I feel more and more like one of the characters in the classic movie, "Witness for the Prosecution," he told the Senate on Thursday, comparing Ms. Lewinsky to the guileful Marlene Dietrich character who made a noir art of testifying on the screen."
[Above excerpt from "The New York Times," Saturday, February 6, 1999, page 1]
And I find Mr. Starr's behavior as detestable as Mr. Clinton's.
The obsessive Mr. Starr can't seem to keep his mouth shut, can he? It seems that Starr wants to bask in the limelight during the Congressional impeachment proceedings. Surely, this is a time when he should keep his big mouth shut.
A "New York Times" editorial calls Mr. Starr "a narcissistic legal crank." The Times editorial said "once the Senate started the second impeachment trial in American history, that was Mr. Starr's cue not only to shut up but to stop any activity by his office that would direct activity away from the Senate or reduce its bargaining room."
Mr. Starr "seems determined to write himself into the history books as a narcissistic legal crank."
[Above excerpt from "The New York Times", Tuesday, February 2, 1999, p. A24]
Mr. Clinton and Mr. Starr are alike in that they both are fixated by oral ways: Clinton likes oral sex, Starr likes to talk (as far as we know). Starr uses words to draw attention to himself so that he become even more powerful. (He hopes) |
