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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (14220)	5/23/2001 8:26:34 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Oh, wow, so he was sexually unfaithful. Personally, I don't care a whole lot about his being unfaithful to Hillary. It was the coercive nature of his sexual escapades which bothered me. Credible accusations of sexual harassment which would have gotten any chief executive of a major corporation fired instantly. Receiving sexual favors from a subordinate on office premises while engaged in office business -- ditto. Those aren't things statesmen do. (Outside, of course, of Eisenhauer and his driver, whatever her name was.) Kennedy, for example, restricted his escapades, as far as I known, to non-subordinates, and was never accused of harrassment or attempted rape. Plus his basic inability to recognize truth when he stumbled over it. Plus perjury. I don't want to re-hash BC here -- it would be as bad as MT! He was -- and is -- a brilliant politician and schmoozer. But a statesman? No way. Mandela, maybe once, but I don't think now. But maybe. Could he go to the Middle East and be respected and listened to by both sides? Maybe. John Hume -- never heard of him. Showing my ignorance there. I don't think the Pope would make things worse, frankly -- since neither Israel nor Palenstine is Catholic neither one would have to worry about intransigence, and he really does, I think, have a commitment to peace. I wish he were in good enough health to try. You think the Jews would give Castro the time of day? Well, they would sell it to him for a nice profit. But give, no. Thirtyyears ago there were a raft of people who, I think, could have commanded sufficient respect to at least be taken seriously as a mediator by both sides. Today, no.