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

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (38319)	3/14/1999 2:58:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 67261

<<So, in an interview with The Associated Press last week, the Texas Governor and leading contender for the Republican Presidential nomination, said he would support a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortions, except in cases of rape or incest, or where the life of the woman was at stake. "On the other hand," he said, "I'm a realistic enough person to know that America is not ready to ban abortions.">> Got that? If you don't want to overturn Roe v. Wade, your heart's not right. Funny, I didn't see heart mentioned by him once. I took his words to mean he feels abortion is wrong but if it's legal and the people want it then he won't make an issue out of it. Maybe you are seeing different words here but then again someone who thinks Marlene Dietrich is his daughter, anything is possible.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (38319)	3/14/1999 4:23:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Sanity check? Bill Clinton is in overdraught: Sunday, March 14, 1999 Las Vegas Review-Journal COLUMN: RAFAEL TAMMARIELLO Young Bill 'began telling stories and living a secret life' Ted Rall, renegade and New York satirist, made 'em scream by suggesting Bill Clinton's not just a liar -- he's insane. This president's pathologies are obvious: power-obsessed, sex addict; pathological liar. This guy even lies about where he's from. Remember "The Man from Hope?" Hope, hell. Clinton was born in Hope but his hometown is Hot Springs -- a tarpit of vice, the very image of the swinging Sodom Old Man Potter turned Jimmy Stewart's town into in "It's a Wonderful Life." William Jefferson "Billy" Blythe III is the man from Hot Springs -- Mafia hangout, gambling den, drug-central, whore haven -- where young Billy and his mom hung out in the ubiquitous bars. (Not like Vegas or anything.) Billy Blythe Whatever was the Hot Springs fat kid whose father relished beating the crap out of Billy and his mom, to the shame and anger of the boy. According to his sworn testimony, it was in Hot Springs that Billy Blythe "began telling stories and living a secret life." He manifested at school one personality (charming, outgoing, helpful), and another (mortified, vengeful) to hack the hideous reality of his home life. Under oath, Bill Clinton conceded he developed two personalities to deal with the realities of Hot Springs. Are there still two Bill Clintons? Or are there more? All politicians present a public persona that wears a suit and utters platitudes -- and a private personality that friends, family and close associates see. But Bill Clinton seems different. The disconnect between his slick public persona and grotesque private self is startling. Maybe the kid who, at age 5 or 6, "began telling stories and leading a secret life" also fragmented into other Billys -- not just two; maybe five, maybe eight. One can only speculate. Question: Why has Clinton refused to release his medical/psychological reports as his predecessors have done routinely? Is it possible the military physicians and psychiatrists who examined Bill Clinton in 1996 noticed something, not about his physical health, but about his psyche -- maybe something alarming? At the time, the press floated the rumor that Clinton kept secret his medical evaluation because it might have shown evidence of a past embarrassing physical malady. Or was it something else? Something the military psychiatrists -- who know they are dealing with the guy with The Button -- found troubling? Consider the term synonymous with the way Clinton's mind works: "Compartmentalization." His close aides remark on his rare ability to relegate different aspects of his life into separate "spaces" -- as if his mind consisted of individual lock boxes: Open one, deal with its contents, close it, lock it, forget it. Open one box, and you get a glad-handing pol with a Southern drawl; open another and there emerges the Yale grad with Yankee diction and cunning lies. Open another, and you get a man slathering to smash his ideological enemies, while kissing babies for some photo op. Maybe Bill's mental compartments are so isolated from each other, that they are really seperate people -- distinct personalities that speak different dialects, and may not know what the other Billys said or did a week ago. Two disturbingly different Clinton personalities emerged clearly in one Monicagate episode: There was the commander-in-chief, in the Oval Office, soliciting by phone support for his Bosnian troop deployment into the Bosnian quagmire, while simultaneously being serviced by the house slut. The congressman on the other end of the line noted no change in the president's voice: Strange. There is evidence of other Bill Clintons: The one who "loathes" the military and terror-bombs iffy targets in the Sudan and Afghanistan; the Good Billy who expresses genuine love for his wife and daughter; and the Vicious Rogue Billy who publicly humiliates them. I'm no shrink. But little is known about multiple personality disorder except that it's rare, that most sufferers were brutally abused as kids; that they tend to be binge eaters; that the different personalities sometimes speak different languages or dialects or create their own definitions of words -- just like that Billy who, under oath, questioned the meanings of the common words "is" and "alone." Maybe Bill Clinton was "telling the truth" on the witness stand when he claimed not to recall recent encounters with Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan, Betty Currie and others. Or is Bill Clinton, with his legendary photographic memory -- a man who can recite flawlessly passages from books he read in grade school -- somebody else when he's under oath? Rafael Tammariello is a Review-Journal editorial writer. His column appears Sunday. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lvrj.com