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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (24077)	4/9/2002 11:06:11 AM
From: DrGrabow	Respond to of 281500

you should have seen the stuff in the French press and on television concerning the Lewinsky affair. There was a thinly disguised satisfaction at seeing the American system of democracy under stress They were laughing at the sheer idiocy of a democracy being challenged over a blow job. As everyone knows most, if not all, European presidents have dalliances. Even Mitterand's widow showed up at his funeral. But the French don't think that having 'affairs' while president hinders your capacity to perform your duties. Clinton's mistake was that he got caught and tried to deny it (what a maroon!). Let's see, Roosevelt, Eishenhower, Kennedy and even Bush sr. were thought to have liaisons while president and if Congress had tried to impeach any of them I would have chuckled as well. The French in particular would write off Israel in a blink of an eye if it could restore some of their own global importance. This is simply incontestable. France would write off anyone if it brought them recognition as a world player. They're democratic that way.