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

To: j_b who wrote (5350)	9/25/1998 2:17:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I don't think Clinton used his authority to gain sexual favors from Monica. He used his star quality, his fame. To the extent he tried to use anything. If you've read even Starr's side of the story, it is clear that she determinedly pursued him. He succumbed, which was unfair to his family, and unseemly for the nation. Especially given the whirlwinds swirling around trying very hard to trap him in just such demonstration of selfish weakness. I don't think that lack of morality was really very momentous. It is very common. We have made a mountain out of a mole hill. My principals very much tell me it is a molehill, and to act accordingly. I think we should just drop it now. I think this crisis is enormously, hugely out of proportion to the transgressions involved. It is as much an indictment of our voyeuristic and almost completely unrestrained media culture as anything else. There's an awful lot of absolutism being applied to this, which I think is far more dangerous that the relatively small transgressions involved. Doug