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To: tejek who wrote (172464)	7/24/2003 11:52:54 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574752

WASHINGTON - A federal judge refused to release Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) from a lawsuit by Gennifer Flowers which accuses the senator of masterminding a campaign to discredit Flowers' claim of an affair with Bill Clinton (news - web sites). news.yahoo.com U.S. District Judge Philip Pro dismissed Flowers' defamation claim against Mrs. Clinton, but allowed a conspiracy allegation to proceed. Former presidential aide George Stephanopoulos and campaign strategist James Carville also are being sued. Judicial Watch, a conservative group representing Flowers, said Wednesday it will seek the senator's testimony in the case. In 1992, a supermarket tabloid wrote that Bill Clinton and Flowers had an affair while he was Arkansas governor. When the presidential candidate denied it, Flowers held a news conference to play audio tapes she said were of secretly recorded intimate phone calls between them. Carville, now on CNN's "Crossfire," and Stephanopoulos, now an anchor on ABC's Sunday morning program "This Week," said that Flowers had doctored the tapes. Stephanopoulos repeated that allegation in a book.

To: tejek who wrote (172464)	7/24/2003 12:11:58 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574752

Mr. Clinton may have been signaling to his party's presidential candidates that fighting Mr. Bush on his handling of the war is a losing proposition. This is nonsense. No way does Clinton believe this -- his entire presidency was built on trying to tear down anything anyone besides him ever did. "The Politics of Personal Destruction". Limbaugh asserts it is because Clinton recognizes he did precisely the same things Bush did, in principle, and if Bush is "guilty" so is Clinton. Limbaugh is wrong. The fact is that Clinton believes the strategy will work, and that a gullible American public will eventually be sucked in by a steady stream of liberal lies, and this is good for the Democrats. So why is Clinton opposing the continued bashing of Bush? Simple. Clinton WANTS Bush to be reelected. This is central to Hillary's run in '08. If a Democrat is elected in '04, she's got to run against an incumbent Democrat in '08, something she would almost certainly be unable to do. Believe it. Bill & Hill can easily rationalize that it "is important enough to have Hill in '08 that it is worth sacrificing now". Particularly, given all this complicated foreign policy stuff. Let Bush sort that out, then when she comes to office she can coast the way Bill did -- great economy, no complicated/messy foreign policy issues to deal with, just 4 (or, worse, ugh! 8) years of tax-and-spend. These people are scheming and it isn't about the Democrats' agenda; it is about the Bill & Hill agenda.