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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (665)	8/24/1998 11:10:00 PM
From: freelyhovering	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

Zoltan--<no one doubts that before his illness....he knew exactly where he was during WWII> Can you produce evidence of that? These anecdotes are while he was still in office. From the same article: "He had told a group of Medal of Honor winners an anecdote about an 8th Air Force bomber pilot who, when his B-17 was mortally hit by flak, ordered th crew to jump from the flaming aircraft, he discovered that the ball gunner was trapped in his turret, wounded, and terrified of dying alone. The pilot took off his parachute, went back to the ballturret position behind the wings, and lay down on the floor so that he could put his arm into the turret and hold the dying boy's hand. 'Don't sweat it, son. We"ll go down together', he told the gunner as the plane plunged to the ground. This brought tears not only to Reagan's eyes; it brought tears to the eyes of the Medal of Honor winners. The only problem, as the press soon discovered, was that it had never happened. It was a scene from a movie, which the President had unwittingly transposed to real life." Are you a neurologist? Myron

To: Zoltan! who wrote (665)	8/25/1998 1:49:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Zoltan!, what a great column you posted. It's truly enjoyable to read such literary talent. My favorite parts, which had me RFLOL: from Has the cookie crumbled for Bill Clinton? By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Washington "...Returning after a year in Britain, I am dumbfounded by the insurgent mood of the Washington media. Indeed, it is downright putschist. Former cheerleaders for the Clinton White House are on the television every night fulminating against the President, cursing him with the fury of the betrayed. The bureau chiefs for the great metropolitan newspapers and political weeklies shake their heads wearily at suggestions that Mr Clinton can somehow mount a defence against perjury by quibbling over the nature of sex acts, whether performed with or without cigars. As for the idea of a fresh Oval Office address to the nation, a new improved apology to show that he is genuinely sorry this time, they smile knowingly at the naivity of such an absurd gambit. Mr Clinton's problems have moved beyond public relations... "This will require personal sacrifice and may even require his resignation, but would fulfil the President's most important oath, to preserve and protect our nation," [Sam Nunn] wrote. In other words: be gone from here, you cad, before we have you tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail."