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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DD™ who wrote (5798)	9/15/1998 12:55:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 13994

Double D, outstanding article! Thanks for bringing it here. I am reminded of why I loved Ronald Reagans speeches so. Peggy Noonan is a national treasure. She speaks with real clarity and a deep understanding of what many of us have been trying to say. Michael

To: DD™ who wrote (5798)	9/15/1998 1:34:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 13994

WOW! <eom>

To: DD™ who wrote (5798)	9/15/1998 1:44:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 13994

thanks, DD, for posting that Noonan column. She made a remarkably insightful observation: Bill Clinton glories in his recklessness, hoping that he will get caught so that he and his "personal difficulties" can again be the center of public attention: >He told evangelical ministers at a prayer breakfast that he had reached "the rock bottom truth of where I am." He said he has "sinned." He bit his lip, lowered his moist eyes, and said his "spirit is broken." He then went on to a raucous awards dinner where he laughed gaily, waved and announced, "Hillary and I have been ... just lapping this up!"< >He fears his phone is being tapped by foreign agents, opening him to international blackmail. But he does not discontinue phone sex. Instead he comes up with a cover story. He tells Ms. Lewinsky they can say they knew they were being bugged, and it was just a "put on." [yes, that is in the Starr Report, I read it.] He sends the first lady to go on television, where she denies the Lewinsky charges and says, "This is a battle... some folk are going to have a lot to answer for."< >Never, in all of last week, did he explain why he put the country through eight terrible months of dissension and distraction, when he easily could have spared it the trauma (and spared his career too). Never did he explain why he sent his media generals out every day to lie for him with conviction, and to slime his opponents. It was telling that when he spoke to the evangelicals he said some people needed apologizing to, and that first, and "most important," was his family. What followed was a litany of his friends and his staff.< >And he picked someone who is, like himself, an exhibitionist. It never occurred to Ms. Lewinsky to be discreet about their affair, not to tell a dozen friends and family about the cigar, the nicknames. But then discretion has never really occurred to him, either. That's how we know about so many of his affairs. He always leaves a trail, an open door. He wants us to know.< He wants us to know, so the focus can be back on him, him and his personal faults and failings. Me, me, me. There is a medical term describing a "condition" of a similar kind of person, but I just can't remember it. The medical term describes a person who always wants to go to the hospital, and so will even make things up so that they can go to the hospital and have that personal care and attention to their poor ailing self. Bill's condition is similar, except that for Bill he wants to be in the care of the Secret Service while he displays for us his failings.