13.) Bill Clinton is as responsible as anybody else for the law that allowed his "private life"
to come under scrutiny. If you don't like it,take it up with the feminists who pushed it. I
would not mind pulling back on the over- broadness of sexual harassment law. As for
fairness, I am not sure what there is to complain about. Toughness is not inherently unfair,
although it may be unkind. You may say that it is unfair that so much should have been
publicized which is embarrassing to the President, but that practically goes with the job. If
you except that Linda Tripp felt threatened, and was trying to protect herself; that Starr
saw the pursuit of this as a way to crack the Clinton cover- up machine, and therefore
went forward; that the Judiciary Committee, fearing that leaks were inevitable, and that
there would be charges of selectivity, decided it was prudent to dump the report on the
public; and that Starr, after being vilified for years, felt it necessary to make as complete
and solid a presentation of the facts as possible, then I don't know that much was wrong.
It is the President who was responsible for floating stories that Monica was a stalker; who
caused loyalists like Betty Currie to run up legal bills, because he insisted upon denial;
who sent his Cabinet members out to make fools of themselves as character witnesses; and
who has dragged out the process, when many Republicans would have been happy to have
accepted genuine remorse, and instead got perfunctory apologies and renewed attacks on
the Special Prosecutor and the Judiciary Committee. My version may be wrong, but then it
may be right. |
