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

To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (11098)	3/17/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Gee, I'm not sure I totally agree with you, Jock. Jacqueline Kennedy was an extremely intelligent and well-educated woman whose style was to stay behind the scenes--at least in part because the times were different, probably--but did exert a lot of influence on her husband on policy issues, from everything I have read. It's just my opinion, but I think she was every bit as smart as Hillary Clinton. After Kennedy's assassination, Jackie showed tremendous grace and charm publicly, but according to a recent biography was getting drunk every night, to the extent she was worried about her drinking. She also probably had a three-year affair with Bobby Kennedy, ending just before he was also assassinated. Also with her brother-in-law Peter Lawford, and Frank Sinatra. I am not saying that these assignations reflect negatively on her--I think she was a very sensitive and traumatized woman--but that these are both very complicated women, and cannot easily be compared and contrasted. Christine

To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (11098)	3/17/1998 2:55:00 PM
From: RJC2006	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

<<<Yes, but they were both ladies of exceptional talent who no doubt have been deeply hurt by their husbands' compulsive pecadillos. Mrs. Clinton is obviously more intelligent and brought a detailed enthusiastic political agenda to the White House, which in large part failed. >>> A failed agenda and a marriage that is in disarray. Some might have an inclination to label the First Lady as being somewhat of a "political whore" at this point. <<<By contrast Mrs. Kennedy was a lady of tremendous grace and charm-whose dignity during the period following her husband's passing was the sort of history we cherish.>>> You obviously stopped reading your history shortly after the Kennedy assassination. Not too long after which the First Lady ran off with a Greek tycoon and subsequently told America to shove up it's collective ass.