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

To: DMaA who wrote (7408)	2/17/1998 12:36:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 20981

As you implied ..... ......diversion.

To: DMaA who wrote (7408)	2/17/1998 12:36:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Our president is a liar and a cheat Creators Syndicate Feb. 2, 1998 Linda Bowles 02 FEB 98 - Most Americans have difficulty believing that anyone, particularly the president of the United States, would look them straight in the eye and lie with passion and conviction. Oozing righteous indignation, Clinton looked the American people in the eye and proclaimed: Listen to me! I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie. Not a single time. Never! These allegations are false. I am inclined to agree with liberal television commentator Bob Beckel that this forthright denial by the president simplifies everything. In practical terms, the ordinary citizen can forget about legalisms, subpoenas, grand juries, polls and political spins. If Bill Clinton did not have sexual relations with the young intern Monica Lewinsky, he is vindicated. If he did have sexual relations with her, he is finished. Unfortunately for the presidency, half of Clinton's declaration of innocence is a known lie. In early 1992, Clinton was recorded on audiotape telling Gennifer Flowers to lie if anyone asked about their sexual relationship. This is the same tape on which Clinton is heard saying that then New York Gov. Mario Cuomo had connections with the Mafia. Clinton later called Cuomo and apologized for the remark. If it wasn't him on tape, why the apology? Alas, there is an accumulating mountain of evidence, sufficient to convince reasonable people, that the other half of his declaration of innocence -- that he had no sexual relations with "that woman" -- is also a lie. As she always does, Hillary Clinton played the part of the loyal wife. In television and radio interviews, she went on the attack. She repeatedly spoke of "this vast right wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president." In effect, she said that her husband had done absolutely nothing wrong. She said that "malicious and evil-minded" people were picking on him for partisan, political reasons. This is such brazen claptrap that there is temptation to read psychological dysfunction into it. She does indeed seem to exhibit the classic symptoms of a paranoid personality as she fluctuates between systematized delusions of persecution and those of grandeur. However, her paranoidal dump on the people of America is more likely nothing other than cockamamie political quackery. She is appealing to the core constituency of the Democratic Party; the heathen left. This large group is made up of fringe zealots who are terrorized by the idea that Christians are coming to get them. Mrs. Clinton plays on the hysteria of those who live in fear that there is a vast conspiracy of decent people trying to destroy their lives by imposing goodness on them. Mrs. Clinton has been married to a chronic womanizer for more than 20 years. The landscape of their marriage is littered with his philandering. There is no way she does not know this. There is something surreal, even scary, about Mrs. Clinton's posturing. She professes not to be bothered by serious charges that her husband is guilty of serial lechery. This is not a normal or a believable reaction. Mrs. Clinton is practicing fraud on the American people. She is a co-conspirator in her husband's lies. She is an enabler. We are not watching a brave woman defending her husband. We are watching a cold-hearted political hack defending her power base. This is not to be admired. It is time the male members of the media got over their misplaced sense of chivalry. We lowered the bar to put Bill Clinton in office. Now, we will see if the people are willing to lower the bar even further to keep him there. We will soon know whether Bill Clinton has succeeded in legitimizing adultery, sexual promiscuity and lying by the president of the United States, at least to the extent that these sleazy behaviors are offset by a good economy. This is to say that an increasing number of Americans believe that laying up treasures in heaven is less important than laying them up in the Bank of America. We are confusing what is legal with what is moral. We are perilously close to believing that if you can find a technical loophole and get away with something, or if you don't get caught, it doesn't matter what you do. It is our very own president who has led us to this sorry place. The question hangs in the balance. When historians look back on these days, what will they write about us? Will they say that when the American people finally came face to face with the evil invading their lives and country, they cast it away? Or will they write that a once-great people on a day in the year of 1998 came face to face with evil and embraced it? freerepublic.com