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

To: greenspirit who wrote (7529)	10/1/1998 1:48:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Hi Michael D. Cummings; About people's ability to fool themselves... It seems like fooling oneself should be weeded out by evolution, but it seems to be a big part of humanity. All of us right wingers knew what was up with Lewinsky long before the president's spokesman said something to the effect that if there was a simple, reasonable explanation, we would have already heard it. That was back around April or so? And Hillary, with the Yale educated brilliant mind didn't figure it out until August? I'm not sure which to believe. That she is so blind/stupid. Or that she thinks the public is so blind/stupid that they will believe her... My own slant: Hillary is preparing us for the first presidential divorce. The public is quite aware that her relationship with the president is one of convenience in politics only. So with him completely stepping on his ( insert slang word for male private parts here ), there is no longer any reason for keeping a facade of a relationship in place. Of course she wants to pretend that up to now her marriage has been one with only the usual motives (i.e. sex and money). To break the marriage, she needs to define a psychologically satisfying reason. Since she has stood by him for oh, so, long, what reason (other than the obvious one: his power is gone,) should she have for leaving him now? I'm guessing that the excuse she will use is his breaking his oath to quit fooling around while in the White House. But for it to be a timely excuse, she has to pretend that she has just now become aware of his violation of that oath. Maybe she wants to pursue a career in politics after splitting up with him. But if she is such a bad judge of character as to believe her "better half", why should we believe she has any better people sense than Neville Chamberlain? -- Carl I should mention that fooling oneself is the eternal bane of the trader. It is easy and expensive to do. It provides some comfort in times of stress, but isn't worth it.