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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (2895)	9/15/1998 5:25:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I did not say character didn't matter. What really bothered most people, including me, that night in Chappaquidik was that Ted Kennedy did not do all he could to save his passenger, Mary Joe Kopecknik. He drove off that bridge, probably drunk. And yet he waited hours before reporting the accident. And he certainly didn't engage in any personal heroics trying to help her escaped from that drowned car. The word coward comes to mind. Rightfully, and not loosely, applied. Doug

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (2895)	9/15/1998 5:45:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 67261

Rationalizing Justification... the Presidency hasn't changed over the years, we have. In times past there was honor in not pursueing poeple's private lives. I'll repeat that.. there was honor in NOT pursueing people's private lives. President Roosevelt's wife was rumored to be a lesbian... but there was honor NOT to go there because it was a private issue. Kennedy's affairs were NOT considered a public right to know. Think of how the death of Lady Diane is similar in character to the implaccable pursuit of Clinton by Starr like her pursuers. In past times demanding the testimony of a sitting President wouldn't have happened... there would have been honor NOT to go there. Its a new disease we suffer from, as much as we suffer the private acts of this President. Jerry Springer TV has us gawk open mouthed, but its always been there since time began. There is a new paparazzi code of pursuit that "all's fair" when it comes to any means of looking at, judging, showing, displaying prying into people's lives... pushing through the closed curtain with cameras firing, with reporters and a goon squad of moralists, kicking in locked doors... then claiming in a loud voice.. "Well, if there's nothing to hide, then you shouldn't be afraid." We have all been brought down by this..