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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ignacio Mosqueira who wrote (18936)	3/20/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I am not saying I was prejudiced against him from the very beginning. There were many allegations of sexual misconduct when he ran the first time. He admitted he had "caused pain in his marriage" on national television, but he would not say the "a" words--adultery and affair. I thought that was very humiliating for Hillary, and for his 12-year-old daughter who was backstage. He admitted publicly is was very painful to put Chelsea through that, and wondered what she thought. I assumed, and I think many if not most Americans did also, that the first CBS segment was a bizarre enough thing to put everyone through, and that the behavior that created that would not be repeated. In fact, one of the things a lot of people I have talked to feel BETRAYED because they thought he was making a promise to be a faithful husband and a moral leader. Instead, it is widely believed now that he thought "Great! I can get away with anything!" At least that is what you might think from his behavior since then. Ignacio, I am not really a prude, and I try not to leap to judgment, but the sheer number of women who don't know each other who have been found or have come forward reluctantly and testified under oath leads me to believe that Clinton is a sexual predator. I wish he had gotten treatment, and learned to control his impulses. Under the circumstances, though, I feel no particular obligation to defend him, and since I have freedom of speech, I also feel that I have a right to say what I think. So do you!!! I am still wondering why you are so upset here. Incidentally, if Tripp has a personal stake against the President, it is partially because, according to Newsweek, Clinton was toying with Monica, indicating he was going to leave Hillary for her, and to just hang on. Tripp is a complicated woman, and also felt like her job was in jeopardy, but she genuinely was Monica's friend, and she got very angry at Clinton for stringing her along like that. There are no totally good or bad characters here, as usual. Willey is a question mark. Her 60 Minutes interview was very believable. Either she is in pain about what happened, or she is a very good actress. Why someone whose husband had significant legal problems, and who was under so much stress that she was about to snap, and was in tears, which Clinton acknowledges in his deposition, would decide to try to seduce the president in his office during the day with other people around raises a lot of questions, doesn't it? It is not really typical female behavior under that much duress, particularly when she knew Clinton was interested in her already, and would have arranged a rendezvous somewhere else if it looked like she was going to reciprocate, as he had tried to do before. So for the moment I am reluctant to drop my intuitive feelings that Clinton is probably a sexual predator. But certainly, I would be most relieved to find out that he is not. Why don't we wait and see? Christine