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

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (13586)	4/15/1998 5:24:00 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 20981

"I'm still not quite sure why the public doesn't seem to care. Part of it is the massive spin machine at the White House, of course, and the shifting of the blame to Ken Starr. But I think more of an explanation for the phenomenon is that the public really knows deep down in their hearts that this guy is a sleazeball, but they don't want to accept it." I think the "public" accepts that he is a "sleazeball", as it is put so frequently on this thread, but that most of us think that most politicians in general are "sleazeballs". Also the possibility that much of what is said is simply either not true at all or, if there is some truth to it, it is at least exaggerated as it is presented. I suppose that falls under your "they don't want to accept it." I certainly don't want to accept the sleaziest of the allegations against him (e.g., things like what Paul Jones alleges), and while I haven't made the time to pursue every last article on the allegations as some anti-Clintonites appear to have gleefully done, it seems to me at least as plausible that she and her troopers have falsified what happened. That isn't the same as saying that I don't believe that Clinton has been sexually inactive while married. But even that is a far cry from, e.g., what Bob Packwood was said to have done (yes, I know, I am a pegging myself as a person of "low moral standards"). Nor does it fall in the category as telling your wife while she is in the hospital with cancer that you are leaving her because she is too old to the wife of a president (as one contender for Y2K is alleged to have done), or promising a Congressional prosecutor not to organize a public defense for yourself and then get caught 2 hours later doing just that. There is plenty of sleaze to go around. And despite the above examples, that includes Democratic sleaze as well. LBJ didn't become a wealthy Senator by not engaging in "sleaze". We will leave JFK on the side. But, e.g., Dan Quayle isn't necessarily less "sleazy" or of "higher" moral caliber just because, as his wife put it years ago, he would never have an affair because he likes to golf far more than engaging in sexual activity.