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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (168101)	8/6/2001 6:22:29 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

What does 8 million for a book dear buy. Clinton's Last Book Flopped Bigtime If sales of ex-President Clinton's last literary effort are any indication, his new publishers are about to take a huge bath on the $10 million book deal they just inked for his memoirs. Sonny Mehta, president and editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf announced the record-breaking contract Monday afternoon, saying Clinton had "lived an extraordinary life, and he has a great story to tell." Presumably, Knopf's parent company Random House thought Clinton had a great story to tell in 1996, when they decided on an initial run of half-a-million copies for his first book, "Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century." But sales weren't as brisk as expected. In fact, despite oodles of publicity and reviews in all the major newspapers, the Clinton book flopped bigtime. A little more than a year after its publication, the Boston Globe noted that Random House was "choking on returns" of "Hope and History," which had sold a mere 100,000 copies. And that was back when he was a sitting president who was on TV practically 24 hours a day. Here's how the Chicago Sun-Times chronicled the Clinton book's slow slide into oblivion: "President Clinton's Between Hope and History, a $ 16.95 book-length essay, sold only a small fraction of the nearly 500,000 copies printed. After as many as 350,000 copies were returned to Random House, the publisher offered the book for $ 5." Today the Clinton book sells used on Amazon.com for $1.48. Sure, "Hope and History" was heavy on policy and light on the kind of revelations that make political books sizzle. But does anyone seriously think Clinton's next screed, set for release in 2003, will be loaded with new Sexgate revelations? Will he, for instance, finally explain where he was on the morning Juanita Broaddrick says he raped her? Or chronicle the details of his relationship with other women he once told Monica Lewinsky numbered into the "hundreds." We won't be holding our breath. Too bad Knopf didn't hold onto its wallet. newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee

To: PROLIFE who wrote (168101)	8/7/2001 12:50:13 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 769667

Wheter protection is needed or not its important to use accurate terms thats why I think it is very important not to call this rape. In some cases sexual harassment laws provide some protection, but this wasn't really harassment. Monica and Chandra both wanted the affair that they had. If Gary Condit did harm Chandra in any way it is that harm, not the sex, that should be illegal. Even if there is some ways that it could be reasonably argued that sane, generally mentally competent adults should somtimes be protected I can't see how you can provide the protection without infringing on their freedom. I don't think it is fair, reasonable or just to treat 20 somethings as children. Some of them will get in to stupid relationships. If we know them personally we might try to warn them away from the situation, but I can't see a justification for punishing Condit or Clinton just for the sex. (Clinton did lie under oath and Condit did apparently give false information to the police and both could be punished for that but not for having sex with a woman in her twenties. Tim