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

To: MR. PANAMA (I am a PLAYER) who wrote (15639)	6/6/1998 12:43:00 AM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 20981

HE REALLY IS A BASTARD! BOY CLINTON by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. 6-6-98 (book publ. 1996) ============================================================ Where Clinton's father came from is still in doubt, for it remains uncertain who Clinton's father might have been. The putative father, William Jefferson Blythe, was, indeed, the marrying kind. He married at least four times in nine years. Supposedly Virginia Cassidy was his last wife, he having met her in the summer of 1943 just before shipping out to military service in Egypt, then Italy. For the next two years Blythe served with the army in Europe, and Virginia was kicking up her heels in Hope. Then comes another of those discrepancies that make the lives of the Clintons so frustrating to the conscientious fact checker. Virginia claims she was reunited with Blythe in November of 1945. Yet military records show that he did not get back from Europe until December 1 and that he was not discharged until December 7. Clinton was born only three months after Blythe's death. Virginia explains her baby's early arrival as doctor's orders. She claims a doctor insisted that labor be induced early because she had taken a fall. As with other tricky issues involving the Clintons, we are asked to take Virginia's word on this. An alternative explanation that has circulated through Hot Springs for years is that Virginia had never even met Blythe and had a baby out of wedlock by some still unknown father. A well-connected friend, familiar with the last few months of entries at the morgue, the gossip says, provided the makings of an important branch for her son's family tree. For our purposes it is enough to observe that the child inherited his mother's cleverness, her appetite for fun, her affable nature, her yearning for acceptance and approval. He also seems to have inheritedd her knack for landing on her feet after the most reckless misadventures. Where Clinton got his indecisiveness, hollowness, and promiscuity remains mysterious. Blythe does seem to have been remarkably cavalier about commitments, so maybe the Hot Springs rumor mill was in error. Clinton's mother's first husband, William Jefferson Blythe--- assuming they truly were married and that the marriage license was not merely a formality, ex post facto---had been a dairyman, a mechanic, a traveling salesman, an Oldsmobile salesman. But he was also a wife abuser, a bigamist, and a philanderer. His restless connubiality explains the embarrassing number of blanks who stepped forward from the American lumpen proletariat to claim half-siblinghood with the new president. Blythe was free in 1935 to marry Virginia Gash, the seventeen- year-old daughter of a saloon keeper, though having a child by her in 1938, two years after their divorce, was not in good taste. He was free to marry again in August of 1938, though when this second wife divorced him nine months later, the judge made it very clear that, far from an exemplary husband, he had been "guilty of extreme cruelty, and gross neglect of duty." Certainly his marriage in 1940 was legal enough, though as it was to Minnie Gash, his first wife's younger sister, his taste can again be questioned. (There are reports that he married Bash II only to escape the clutches of another girl, whom he had impregnated.) But Blythe was almost certainly not free to marry Clinton's mother, Virginia, in 1943; for it seems that after his 1940 marriage he married again in 1941 to Wanetta E. Alexander, and his divorce from her did not come through until 1944. Hence Bill Clinton, whether the son of Blythe or of an anonymous donor, is almost certainly America's first bastard to be elected president. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------