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To: hmaly who wrote (131905)	2/7/2001 6:25:11 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571399

You don't think renting out rooms in the White house is tacky, you don't think that having sex with the interns and blaming the republicans is tacky; you don't think having your commerce secretary (Ron Brown) give rides on trade missions in exchange for campaign contributions is tacky;you don't think that having drug dealers and gun runners in for White house parties is tacky;you don't think that taking money from foreign sources is tacky; you don't think that cleaning out the silverware on Air Force one is tacky; you didn't think that giving Rich a pardon was tacky; you didn't think that renting twice the space than he needed in one of the most expensive bldgs on the taxpayers buck is tacky; pray tell me, what is your definition of tacky. Harry, In all truthfulness I am not familiar with some of the missteps you point out. I know about Lewinsky and I agree his dealing with women in a sexual way is tacky. Ron Brown I thought was killed in a plane crash early in the presidency and I don't know about the trade missions you talk about. I understand that friends as well major contributors to his campaign stayed at the White House...apparently, I don't see it in the same light as you portray it....renting out rooms. You know how I stand about the office space. I have not heard about cleaning out the silverware from AF one nor do I know the facts surrounding Rich so I can't comment. Once I worked as a kind of intern/council representative for a Councilman, obviously on a much lower rung of the elected official ladder. This councilman was very popular but there was forever this gossip that it seemed nothing would stop. If you tried to deny it, it only made it worse. Eventually, the gossip which was mostly lies but did have kernels of truth became almost overwhelming. The Councilman's popularity plummeted; his reelection was in doubt. I was young and pretty freaked out about it. Many of his staff said he needed to publicly confront his accusers. He chose to continue to do his work in the best possible way and ignore his distractors....and six months later he was reelected. What I learned out of that experience is that there are those elected officials who are both popular and actually trying to make progress and to do things that are positive. Those officials tend to be the ones under attack. Usually nothing ever comes of it. And do you know why? There was nothing of substance in the first place. And trust me, if there had been, their butts would have been jail because their opponents would have stopped at nothing to make it happen. For me, B. Clinton falls into that category of being an elected official who is popular and trying to make the world better. He was the first mainstream party presidential candidate for whom I voted [second term] and I have no regrets making that decision. I think he did his best to get things done and I think all the Republican opposition and hate is a testimony to that. People only attack those who they fear or view as threatening. The guy who is a loser but still runs the company has jokes made behind his back while everyone waits for the hook. With Clinton, the jokes did not start until after Lewinsky. More threatening is H. Clinton.....she is not damaged like her husband. And so the Republicans need to be afraid....very afraid. ted