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

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (12819)	11/4/1998 4:24:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 67261

<iu>What I'm really talking about is the "politics of personal destruction" which Bill Clinton has just about single handedly "raised" to a fine art Latest twist is not being content with trashing his contemporaries, BC lovers are now going back 200 years to find precedence that condone his calamitous concupiscence.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (12819)	11/4/1998 4:25:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

<<Bill Clinton has just about single handedly "raised" to a fine art with his devil dogs like Carville and Begala. Not many decent people will be willing to put up with that kind of s***, and I wouldn't blame them. Bp, you are raising blind partisanship to giddying heights. Carville and Begala were used (to the extent they were controlled at all---Carville's a bit of a loose cannon) in largely defensive ways. It was not Clinton who was out making personal or character attacks on other candidates in the 92 or 96 elections. It was the right wing supporters of his opponents. (Not Bush himself, and I actually...perhaps nievely...doubt that Bush even authorized the right wing dredging up of first Flowers and then others, which was leaked to the press.) Clinton was under personal attack from the right wing from the get go. There were rumors of his philandering for sure (as there were years ago from the get go with respect to JF Kennedy). With Clinton elements of the right wing heavily funded by Mellon-Scafe decided it was a legitimate method to use to bring him down. Elements of the right wing did all they could to get the press to run with these rumors...and finally succeeded by first getting one of the tabloids --- Star magazine, I think--- baited onto the story. Doug