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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (3802)	1/31/1998 7:57:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

Hi Bill, Interesting spin and hypothesis. I don't put anything behind Slick and his troops. How would you like to be Mike McCurry, Ann Lewis or other Clinton spinmeisters and have to defend that guy? How do they look in their mirrors without barfing? I say this without caring whether or not he is guilty in this latest scandal; he has committed so many other travesties (and gotten away with them!) that I would like to see him finally go down the tubes. I am still trying to figure out why so many women defend him, and why so many men find him repulsive. I know he "speaks" to women and defends their "issues", but there is something more. I hypothesize that our loveable lug of a president represents for us men the guy we knew in high school who was false, conniving and dishonest to the core, but who was loved by the teachers. And, yeah, he scored with the girls. Men seem to have "con antennas" which are more finely tuned than those of women. Anybody agree? Jack

To: Ish who wrote (3802)	1/31/1998 10:05:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

On the other hand, it's also possible that Lewinsky is a Crazy Person. Supposedly she was recorded by Tripp as confiding that she kept the navy dress as a sort of souvenir because it had Presidential semen on it. Gross. And also untrue. No semen, no nothing. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? True story: about eight years ago a friend of mine, chairman of his department at a British university, was accused of harassment by a woman working in the department on a one-year contract. She'd seemed normal enough, then suddenly started telling everyone (including the school authorities) that he'd made hundreds of lewd remarks, had touched her, and in general had behaved very threateningly. No one who knew him well would have believed this for a minute, but needless to say an investigation was begun (it being England, the people involved hadn't yet run out to get attorneys, but they were close). My friend was horrified and very much afraid of losing his job. Then, to his great relief, the "victim" began insisting that he was sending her pornographic messages through the heating system. All's well that ends well. She was packed off to a clinic. Lewinsky probably isn't that far gone, but I wouldn't absolutely rule out the possibility of her having invented the whole "affair" in order to impress her friends. Perhaps there was some interest on Clinton's part, but no actual sex. We'll probably never know for sure.