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To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (18521)	9/11/1998 3:23:00 PM
From: Gary H	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 116893

To all, Is anyone expecting a last min bail out on the Dow? Is anyone expecting a public hanging over the week-end?

To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (18521)	9/12/1998 1:57:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116893

NY Times Blasts Clinton For ''surreal'' Crisis 12:53 p.m. Sep 12, 1998 Eastern WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The New York Times Saturday denounced President Clinton for his ''sad little trysts'' with Monica Lewinsky and declared: ''A president without public respect or Congressional support cannot last.'' Initial press reaction to the publication of independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr's report laying out intimate details of the affair ranged from blistering condemnation of Clinton to calls for the public to reserve judgment until all the facts were in. The conservative Washington Times was forthright. ''Go, you despicable man, go and be gone,'' it said. The New York Times, often supportive of Clinton's policies, expressed deep indignation in an editorial and said the president brought the crisis on himself by not coming clean about his relationship with the former White House intern when the scandal broke in January. ''A president who had hoped to be remembered for the grandeur of his social legislation will instead by remembered for the tawdriness of his tastes and conduct and for the disrespect with which he treated a dwelling that is a revered symbol of presidential dignity,'' said the Times. Until the Starr report was issued Saturday, not even Clinton's family ''could have grasped the completeness of President Clinton's mendacity or the magnitude of his recklessness,'' it added. The editorial excoriated Clinton's lawyer David Kendall for continuing to maintain that the president never had sex with Lewinsky because they never had sexual intercourse, an argument which ''insults the nation's intelligence.'' ''By relying on this kind of destructive legal counsel from Mr Kendall for so long, Mr Clinton has managed to create one of the most disastrous personal situations in the history of the presidency,'' said the Times. By using the White House for ''sad little trysts with a desperately star-struck employee, by skulking around within sight of nervous Secret Service agents, by conducting erotic telephone games while travelling without his wife, Mr Clinton has produced a crisis of surreal complexity,'' added the Times. ''A president without public respect or Congressional support cannot last,'' it said. The New York Daily News tabloid carried the headline ''The XXX Files'' and cautioned in an editorial that Americans must now patiently hear Clinton's rebuttal of the Starr report. ''The American public must reserve judgment. As in ordinary trials, the prosecution goes first, the defense follows. Only then is the verdict rendered,'' it said. ''Starr's huge indictment, down to every gross detail, is meant to disgust and enrage. But in the end, the facts, not the seamy wrapping, are what will matter,'' said the Daily News. The Washington Times said in an editorial: ''Notwithstanding the plain and obvious fact that Mr Clinton had sex with Miss Lewinsky, the president says he did not perjure himself. In other words, Mr Clinton is still lying.'' ''For all the practiced hang-dog contrition, for all the moving rhetoric of repentance, the president continues to lie. It is an insult. It is brazen. And all people of conscience should now be demanding that he resign -- and once and for all take his leave of the sewer he has made out of public life,'' it said. The Baltimore Sun took a more forgiving tone, saying Starr's report added little to what had already leaked to the media and that its accusations would not be strong enough to force Clinton from office. ''The nation is embarrassed, President Clinton is diminished. But at first reading, the test of impeachable crimes is not met,'' said the Sun. It called the report's dissemination on the Internet with the blessing of Congress ''the greatest exercise in history of mass prurience, character assassination, participatory democracy and lawmakers' sincere quest for guidance -- all in one.'' The Starr report ''contains nothing that was not generally known when the American people told pollsters that they wanted all this to go away,'' it concluded. Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited.