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To: ztect who wrote (9871)	2/13/1999 5:02:00 PM
From: ztect	Respond to of 40688

JOURNAL / By FRANK RICH....Borrowed Wisdom.... The New York Times ..Op-Ed Page February 13, 1999 Love It or Leave It If Bill Clinton accomplished little else in the year of Monica, he did disprove one of the most quoted lines in American literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald's rueful dictum that "There are no second acts in American lives." Through cunning, guile, stamina and sheer luck, the President showed that an American life can have countless acts, even within a single year, no matter how many times your adversaries lower what everyone declares to be the final curtain. But it was also during the past year that another Fitzgerald maxim was triumphantly reaffirmed: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." That line could well apply to another major player in this drama -- the much-speculated-about American people. From the moment Mr. Clinton first wagged his finger about "that woman," a majority of the public judged him a lying philanderer -- even as they came to the parallel conclusion that his scandalous behavior shouldn't force him from office. Though the Washington establishment would eventually be driven bananas by the compartmentalization of those two opposed ideas, Americans beyond the Beltway, possessed of first-rate intelligence, shrugged it off. And the country functioned just fine. In the aftermath of yesterday's verdict, there's the usual run of buzzwords ("closure," "legacy") and journalistic compilations of winners and losers. The cliché of the moment has it that "there are no heroes" in Monicagate. True enough, if applied to Mr. Clinton, Kenneth Starr, media bloviators and partisans across the political map. But the public's sense of proportion through it all has been heroic. Whether speaking to pollsters or in actual balloting, it has known just how to apply the brakes when either the President or his Javert threatened to drive the country into a ditch. What's shocking is how readily those who hate Bill Clinton are willing to transfer that hatred to the people who refused to give him the boot. William Bennett now labels Americans "ignoble." Lindsey Graham summed up his case for impeachment by saying, "This nation is in hopeless decline." In his summation, Henry Hyde declared, "I wonder if after this culture war is over . . . an America will survive that's worth fighting to defend." Love it or leave it, buster. The America Mr. Hyde finds worthless hardly admires Mr. Clinton, but it does know the difference between a fair prosecution and a tarring-and-feathering (with the avalanche of Starr evidence being the buckets of tar in this case). The America that Mr. Bennett finds ignoble is the most churchgoing country in the world, with a steeply declining crime rate. The nation Mr. Graham finds in hopeless decline is not overrun by greedy, idle fools seduced by the stock ticker; [except for those of us on SIjk] it is full of people who are toiling hard to build the companies, many of them new, that have fueled the current boom even more than Alan Greenspan has. Most Americans have been much too busy working to listen to Washington's moral defeatists. For those Americans, Monicagate's official end won't mean much, except a decline in white noise; they tuned it out long ago. It's less clear, however, if the antagonists who played leading roles in the circus are any wiser for the experience. Look at Linda Tripp (or don't). Interviewed by Jamie Gangel on the "Today" show yesterday, she managed in an impressively short time to charge her beloved surrogate daughter Monica with lying under oath to the Senate, and the President with threatening the lives of both her and her children. If it's possible to drive her poll rating even lower than last fall's 3 percent, the self-martyring Ms. Tripp may have done it. Sam Donaldson, the unabashedly partisan ABC White House correspondent who speculated more than a year ago that the Clinton Presidency might be "numbered in days," is also incorrigible. Now officially journalism's clown prince, he went on "Politically Incorrect" to crack anti-Clinton jokes on the eve of yesterday's Senate vote. Clinton-haters, convinced that just one more revelation will nail their prey, are still frantically chasing after purported White House sex tapes and Jane Doe No. 5. Mr. Starr is ready to oblige all accusers, and Mr. Clinton, his gloat-free apology done with, is setting off on another fund-raising binge. As for All Monica media, the Fox News Channel is now loudly promoting next week's bill: "Four Nights! Four Special Reports!" -- on JonBenet Ramsey. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this where we came in?

To: ztect who wrote (9871)	2/13/1999 6:43:00 PM
From: TsioKawe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 40688

The old forked tongue syndrom??Out of 550 Treatys made by politicians not even one has been lived up to..Abenaki had a land Treaty with George Washington during the Revolution war, Abenaki allied with Revolutionists, also made critical messages from the Revolution Army to the French Further North.. When the British had a fully Trained Army coming across the Seas from India, for the purpose of ending the Revolution, Our Abenaki ancestors Persuaded the French (who were very reluctant to enter this conflict) to send out their fleets and ambush the British..Most of the British were destryed before seeing land from this Battle...After the revolution was won, Old George sent his promise to his Politicians, it was never Implemented..Taday we still seek Federal and states recognition as a Tribal Entity..Not one politician has ever lived up to this Deed...(except in Canada) If the Abenaki did not support the Revolution efforts, or Persuaded our French Brothers to send out their navy, we would all be serving the Queen... Worth a little recognition wouldn't one say?? TsioKawe Free Leonard!