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

To: John R Resseger who wrote (12879)	4/4/1998 4:54:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 20981

t is quite common for smart people to purposely and then habitually talk dumb. True, remember Nelson Rockefeller? But most of 'em change their diction according to the occasion. I had an uncle (by marriage, I hasten to add) who--resentful that he hadn't had quite the career he'd wanted (though it had in fact been quite a good one) insisted on speaking ungrammatically to demonstrate that he was a "self-made man". It was exceedingly tiresome, and yes, he DID know better; I used to do acrostics with him. If Paula really HAD known better, she'd have tried to make a good impression in her deposition. AND: the fact that she's let herself be screwed, and NOT by Clinton, but by lawyers who tried to bring an unsustainable case, really DOES speak first for her greed, and then for her stupidity. And these days, getting an "A" on a college paper don't mean dick, so to speak.

To: John R Resseger who wrote (12879)	4/4/1998 4:59:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 20981

John, I am a little unclear why we are debating whether Paula Jones is intelligent. Is it really important somehow? In the interview segments I have seen of her, she doesn't really seem terribly bright, but does present herself as a very sweet person, somewhat naive. I believe she is the first person on either side of her family to have graduated from high school. She could not answer a simple question about her job history in the interview I saw, something that she would have needed to know the answer to in order to assert that she had been damaged. I must say that all the other women I have heard speak who have been involved in the scandals--Dolly Kyle Browning and Gennifer Flowers come to mind immediately--do seem like intelligent women, although they are often portrayed as bimbos.