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

To: jimpit who wrote (3841)	9/19/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

The law doesn't really apply to the "beautiful people" like the Clinton's. Haven't you figured that out yet? <ggg> JLA

To: jimpit who wrote (3841)	9/19/1998 11:57:00 AM
From: Mike P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Five questions: "How does Canada, France, Russia, Japan, India, UK, Brazil, Mexico and Iraq perceive us now that we've obsessed over this matter for 7 months?" A. true there was no need for the president to drag this out for 7 months. canada could care less, france as usual thinks they are above all this as they are ensconched firmly in a failed socialist economic model brought about by their collective lack of reality and intelligence. russia, tough, we have infused enough capital there to try to prop them up, they are a miserable failure who will probably compound the problem by reverting back to communist rule, freedom and democracy is tough...most just cant deal with it. japan also has huge economic problems brought forth by a wreckless and overbearing govt. india flips its nose at us like more of our hard earned allies due to the fact clinton and pals gave carte blanche to ours and indias enemies pakistan and china in return for filling his campaign coffer. uk, like canada, dont give a heap and will stand by us no matter what. brazil will be fine long term and so will mexico. iraq loves bill im sure much like most our enemies but they are so worthless who cares. guess the moral is it remains of utmost importance for the people of this country to exercise their democracy and essential we hold our govt and leaders to the highest standards and pay close attention to even the smallest amount of corruption. otherwise we become sheep and end up a sheep society like france, japan, and russia. "Are we a RICHER or a POORER nation because of it?" A. because we are genuinely concerned about corruption in our govt and work hard to stay informed and exercise our freedom, much richer. ask any country that doesnt have these rights. "Would we be a RICHER or a POORER nation if we now moved on to the REALLY BIG PROBLEMS facing our world?" America solves all the big problems of the world, paying attention to scandel at home and still carrying a coherent leadership role in the world are not mutually exclusive, we can do both and have to. we are held to a higher standard. this revolves around our system, no one man can impede this fact, just hamper it which has been done by the bill and hill gang. "In TWENTY YEARS will we regret that we didn't use our time more productively?" A. no, except maybe more people should have been paying attention to the savage abuses of power going on for the last 6 years and impeachment hearings could have started long ago. still, i say no. "Has it driven our nation apart? And is this a good thing?" A. the only thing that has driven our nation apart is the constant devisive demogogaury by the liberal left, rich against poor(more taxes), black against white(affirmative action), young against old(social security, medicare) thereby creating their base of power. look at any liberal policy, tv add, speech etc. and see how apparent the you against me with the govt as saviour theme is. pathetic. clinton and his gang of bandits thrive on devisiveness and catastrophe, our heros. let the will of the people carry the day again.

To: jimpit who wrote (3841)	9/19/1998 12:26:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Sordid right wing extremism.

To: jimpit who wrote (3841)	9/19/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: Hiram Walker	Respond to of 67261

To All, **MUST READ***,in my opinion,but I could be wrong. Riding the Starr supernova By Joel Deane, ZDNet There are no virgins. Not when you're talking about politicians and the media. Every elected official -- from Bill Clinton to Newt Gingrich to Richard Nixon to John F. Kennedy -- has climbed into bed, figuratively speaking, with a journalist at some stage. Giving off-the-record briefings, granting exclusives, awarding preferential seating in Air Force One or just sharing gossip about their political rivals. And every political journalist, whether they'll admit it or not, lives for times like right now -- when a politician is in trouble and there's blood in the water. It's a cynical, abusive relationship with a closet-full of dirty linen that likes to kid itself it's seen it all before. But it hasn't. No one's seen anything like the Starr Supernova before. Changing everything When Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report on his investigation into the Monica Lewinsky affair burst across the Internet, it changed everything in two ways. First of all, the Starr Report painted a bull's-eye on the back of every politician. By voting to post the 445-page tome on the Internet, Congress did a Gary Hart -- practically daring the media to investigate every politician's sexual history. And, as Salon magazine's sexual expose of Rep. Henry Hyde (the Republican chairing the Judiciary Committee which could bring impeachment proceedings against Clinton) shows, the media is more than equal to the task. Secondly, the Starr Report changed everything by giving us our first real taste of the Internet's power on a grand scale. Rather than read, see or hear just the juicy excerpts of the Starr Report -- filtered by print, TV and radio journalists -- people could download and devour every sordid byte for themselves. Of course, the Net's immediacy and appetite for detail is not new, but by attracting an estimated audience of 20 million Americans the Starr Report took the Net from niche to mass media. It's like the difference between conventional and nuclear warfare. Why ZDNN is Webcasting Clinton And the Starr Supernova hasn't finished with us yet. Monday morning, at 6 a.m. PT, all four hours of Clinton's grand jury testimony on the Lewinsky affair will be released to the media. Almost immediately, every minute of that famous testimony will be Webcast -- uncut, uncensored, for all to see -- in streaming video on umpteen Web sites. ZDNN, in conjunction with ZDTV, will be one of those Web sites. Why is a technology news site bothering with a political event such as this? Simple. The Starr Supernova is a technology story. For better or for worse, news of the Lewinsky affair was first broken by the Drudge Report. For better or for worse, the Starr Report was released on the Internet. For better or for worse, an online publication -- Salon -- broke the Hyde story. For better or for worse, the unedited version of the Clinton testimony will only be shown online. As Salon Editor David Talbot said, the Internet is coming of age with the Starr Supernova. And, as the bomb- and death-threats made against Salon show, nobody knows just where this phenomenon is leading us Hiram