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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: j g cordes who wrote (17347)	1/30/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm sorry my post bothered you, Jim. That sure wasn't my intent. My strong language is just reflective of my anger, because I feel the Clintons campaigned on a platform of "don't stop thinking about tomorrow", replete with all the right phrases and all the neat music to appeal to boomers, and then they turned into a huge disappointment in the sense of the way they operate in the world, which in my opinion is WAY below what I would call ethical. It is pretty obvious to me that they were very clever, lawyerly wheeler dealers from the get-go, but their campaign presented them as people who believed the '80's were excessive and materialistic and sort of tawdry, and that a new era would begin with Clinton's inauguration. I have said this before here, but before you came, so I will repeat it--the time Hillary appeared on the cover of the N.Y. Times Sunday magazine dressed totally in white and was talking about spiritual values in the interview inside was really a turning point for me, because I found the whole expression full of hypocrisy. I am getting pretty good at reading their body language and the looks in their eyes, and I see a lot of deceit in both Clintons. Of course I do not profess to be any kind of expert, but they have lost any credence with me at all. What amazes me is that the country seems to have bought the very transparent and simplistic spin Mrs. Clinton put on their troubles. If most of us can be spun that easily, I don't think it bodes well for the country. In fact, though, the entire Clinton presidency has been based on spin rather than ethics or trust, and while I might expect that in a totally slime bucket like Richard Nixon, I am saddened when people who came to national attention professing to be caring and compassionate and wanting to do good for America behave that way. I am not sure, however, that idealists ever really become conservatives, although I must say I heard Danny Quayle interviewed this morning, and he seems like he is getting smarter and more mature, and he is still good looking. I have always stayed open to other points of view, and don't automatically remove conservatives from consideration. I think a more likely thing that happens with idealists, though, is that they simply gradually withdraw from the political process. Anyway, I really liked what Senator Ashcroft of Missouri said today, which as I recall was "We need a leader, not a lawyer".