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

To: Janice Shell who wrote (7855)	2/20/1998 1:01:00 PM
From: Michael Sphar	Respond to of 20981

Janice, I have to disagree. The sort of reaction you discuss is an instinctual reaction. Okay call me neanderthal. This father's blood would have boiled. But my anger would have been directed elsewhere, starting with myself. What a daughter wants in the way of treatment and how dad reacts are not necessarily harmonious. You probably can relate to that. I sure can. I found his bottomline remark fearing for the impact on the Clinton administration alien to my way of thinking. That would have been quite a ways done my list, but then I'm neanderthal.

To: Janice Shell who wrote (7855)	2/20/1998 7:29:00 PM
From: WalleyB	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 20981

The sort of Neanderthal attitude you apparently consider appropriate would be an embarrassment to grownups everywhere. Janice, the point was that the father was lacking something in his character for not being outraged by what happened to his daughter. Sure she - at 21 - was old enough, hey, 18 year olds are old enough and a lot of 16 year old will tell you they are old enough, but the point is not what the girl thinks but what rips through a father's heart, assuming he has one when he hears about the activity. Despite the challenges to the mores of our forefathers - which incidently the good Doctor is assumed to have been inculcated with, most men will tell you that they know a letch when they see one cause men know what men are about. Kind of indicts men but so be it, but one of the only redeeming things about us is that some of us resist the urge to follow the base passions which lower us to that of dogs and the like. (ok Ok you other guys, I speak for myself only) But, some things will always be beyond respect of society. Boys having sex with their mothers, father's with their daughters, step children as well, and yes old men in positions of power and authority in particular with their underlings to mention a few. There is a conflict of interest inherent in the relationship, if nothing else. That is why the father aught to be beside himslef not at Ken Starr but at Bill Clinton. Apparently, though, water in this case is thicker than blood and this father appears to be more that willing to carry buckets of water for the president. JMHO, jim