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

To: Les H who wrote (11200)	10/26/1998 12:44:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Democrats Claim Yankees Were 'Unfair' in Sweeping the Padres NEW YORK, NY - While Yankee fans celebrate their team's four game sweep over the San Diego Padres, Democrats in Congress are claiming that the Yankees were 'unfair'. Said one Democratic congresswoman, "I was troubled by what I saw while watching this year's World-Series. Fans in San Diego were crushed and their self-esteems were severly damaged by the Yankee's unfair and insensitive sweep over the Padres. This is a prime example of what is wrong in America." Said one Democratic congesswoman, "If the Yankees cared about the feelings of other people than themselves, they would have allowed the Padres to win a few games. Furthermore, The Yankees should have allowed the Padres to win the entire series because New York won the World-Series in 1996 and the Padres have never won a World-Series. The Yankees didn't 'need' another World-Series title. They were selfish and unfair to not let the Padres have something that the Yankees already had." Barbara Boxer, Democrat from California, is threatening to enact "Affirmative-Baseball" legislation if Major League Baseball does not do something to address the 'unfairness' that is currently dominiating America's Pastime. acclaimedmedia.com

To: Les H who wrote (11200)	10/26/1998 3:19:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

It would seem to make more sense to provide them with the choice of a cheap hysterectomy to prevent future births or abortions. Cheap hysterectomy. You're an animal, Les.

To: Les H who wrote (11200)	10/26/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Respond to of 67261

Les - Hysterectomies are not cheap - nor are they all that safe. Mr. K.

To: Les H who wrote (11200)	10/26/1998 6:42:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

OFF-TOPIC --- Monica: Victim of White House spin-doctors by Sandra Parsons London Times sunday-times.co.uk <<<Current topics of insanity check thread State of US Educational System Abortion Michelle's Hate of Religious Right >>> According to Dick Morris, the former special adviser to President Clinton, when the Monica Lewinsky story broke the White House strategy was one of "deceit, denial and delay". "The President actually even told one of his chief advisers that Monica Lewinsky was a stalker who was trying to blackmail him into having sex with her, otherwise she would accuse him of it. They also spent a lot of time trying to tear down their accusers, and they were very worried that Monica Lewinsky might co-operate with Kenneth Starr - which she eventually did - and were trying to dismiss all this as the rantings of a late-teenage girl. "Unfortunately for them, there was this dress with actual forensic semen stains on it, and even the White House spin people couldn't figure out how to explain semen without admitting sex." Morris says Clinton rang him on Wednesday, January 21 this year ("A date which will live in infamy," says Morris) and told him: "I didn't do what they said I did, but I did do something, and I'm afraid I did too much, so I can't prove my innocence." He believes that the White House began a concerted campaign to smear Monica once it became clear that she was going to do a deal with Kenneth Starr. "I don't think the real effort to tear her reputation apart, which has proceeded lately, really began until she started to co-operate with Starr," he says. "I think that Monica Lewinsky is the most innocent of victims, I think that she is a 22-year-old girl who was just star-struck with the President. Yeah, if she were 52 and she were a lawyer or a senator you could say that she was at fault, because she was obviously coming on to him and obviously flirting with him and obviously preserving souvenirs. But what do you expect from a 22-year-old girl? He's two-and-a-half times her age and to say that she's at fault in this situation is just ridiculous. Even Clinton doesn't say that. "I don't think America's going to impeach Bill Clinton because he had a tryst with Monica Lewinsky, I don't think they're going to impeach him because he lied about it, even if he did it under oath. But they might well impeach him if evidence comes forward from woman after woman after woman, of private detectives scurrilously, sometimes illegally, perhaps using physical intimidation, working on stopping these women from telling the truth. That could really revolt the American people as, frankly, it does me, and that might cause him more serious trouble than sex ever did." Morris believes Monica was victimised both by the White House, and by Kenneth Starr. "Obviously she was also manipulated by Linda Tripp (who taped Lewinsky when she was pouring out her heart to her about Clinton). Linda Tripp knew that Kenneth Starr could get jurisdiction to investigate the scandal if the modus operandi in this scandal paralleled that in the Webster Hubble scandal, which was the Whitewater scandal, where Starr had jurisdiction. And the allegation in that scandal was that Clinton got Hubble a variety of jobs to keep him quiet. "So Linda Tripp played a role in getting Monica to go in to Clinton and say, give me a job in return for my silence. And once that happened, then it was very easy for Starr to say: 'Well, this is the same pattern as we observed with Hubble, give me jurisdiction.' "So this poor woman was like a ping-pong ball being battered back and forth between these two heavyweights, and I feel absolutely nothing but compassion for her. "If she gets three million dollars, she deserves ten for what she's been through." SANDRA PARSONS