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

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (7593)	2/18/1998 7:25:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Hiya Holly: As a history buff I hope you saw or taped The Kennedys on PBS's American Experience last night. Serendipitiously, I read the NYT's lead editorial yesterday in which they condemned phonied history by nations such as Japan, the Soviets, France and South Africa, noting that the lies its historians spin with government imprimatur reveal more about those nations than does the bogus history. In that light then, USers must be getting better, because more and more truth about the Kennedy's is appearing. While the documentary was flush with the usual Kennedy idolatry (and adultery), it was more balanced with reality. A few mental notes: - The Kennedys were shown as ruthless in their pursuit of power and their politics just the means to that end. - Each iteration of Kennedy brother - Joe, Jack, Bobby, Ted - is inferior to his older sibling. - Jack's recklessness in his private life was replicated in public policy, leading us closer to nuclear war than any President. - Jack was far more popular in death than he ever was in life. - Bobby was a consummate political opportunist, whose politics changed with political advantage. Men of principle, like Gene McCarthy, were trampled in the process. - Jackie may have never married for love, but she raised her children right. One suspects that JFK2 is superior to his father as a consequence. - On the lighter side, I almost fell out of may chair when they showed a film clip of old Rose introducing Teddy in 1962, noting that she had given him every advantage religiously, and that from the time he was a child she had been sure that Teddy was going to be a priest or a bishop!!! There's lots more, (even Judith Exner was there). Tonight they're doing LBJ. Let's hope they put some Robert Caro in there. The rest of the prez's will fill out February. Regards

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (7593)	2/18/1998 4:55:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Holly, I am directing this at you because of your status as a Californian.(There may be others.) Quickly approaching is a special election for the U.S. House in the 22nd district of California on March 10, between the widow of former Congressman Walter Capps and Assemblyman Tom Bordonaro. Prediction (purely my own analysis): If the Dems lose that seat then you will see a frantic race to see which rats can get off the S.S. Clinton first. The reason is that there is only one known instance in which a widow has lost a special election to fill the seat of her husband. (In all, one-fifth of the 165 women who have served in the House were elected to fill their late husband's seat.) A defeat there would surely be read as a portent of things to come and would greatly undermine Clinton's political support both within the Dem party and beyond. In June there is another special election in California to fill the House seat of the late Sonny Bono. His widow, Mary, is running. Barring some major gaff, I expect her to easily exceed the landslide margins that Sonny had won.