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>Dear Mary,
You said:
Moving to the Clinton discussion, I have a few thoughts on this eve
>of his redemption I'd like to share.
Me too, Mary!
You miss the point with Clinton and buy the Media projection once again.
No one really cares, Republican or Democrat, what Clinton did or did not
do, sexually, with an Intern!
Clinton lied in civil court, and to a Grand Jury, under oath, and no
one, not even Slick Willie is above the Law. That is the crux of the
matter, since letting him off the hook, undermines our Purjury Laws and
Equal Justice under the law!
If any man represents talent without character, it is Clinton, which is
why someone like yourself and Hippies, could vote such a piece of filth
into office, and do it twice. Ah, the joys of Democracy or the
Dictatorship of the Prols!
Best regards,
Paul.
ally
>goes back to the Civil War and has something to do with Republican
>Yankee carpetbaggers. People in the south have carried this grudge
>for over a century; only realizing lately that the modern version of
>the Republican party is actually more in line with their conservative
>leanings than the Democrats. Any Southerner could write an entire
>book on this subject, so I'll stop there. Yes, as someone pointed
>out, George Wallace was a Democrat, but that was then, this is now.
>
>I always liked Clinton, and I wasn't alone. Everybody except those
>with an axe to grind did too. He was young and dynamic and was an
>excellent spokesperson for our lowly state. There were rumors
>though. It was said (in the '70's) that he smoked marijuana that he
>bought at a Little Rock tavern called The Whitewater (deja vu all
>over again...). I frequented that establishment myself in those
>days, but never once actually saw him there or met anyone who had.
>
>I don't recall any rumours about womanizing at that time. Those
>rumours came much later. He always seemed pretty smart to us. And
>believe me, we needed a smart Governor. In case you're not up on
>your national statistics, Arkansas consistently ranks 49th out of 50
>on education, income and other civilized things. Our unofficial
>motto was "Thank God for Mississippi!".
>
>The main thing you could say about Clinton was that he could charm
>the socks off the chair of the ladies auxiliary at the First Baptist
>Church while at the same time pushing for abortion rights. It was
>almost bazaar how he could do that - and still can do that today.
>You see, my take on it is that some pretty large portion of the
>American population is completely charmed by Bill Clinton. He can do
>no wrong.
>
>Logically, one would have thought the feminists would skewer him for
>messing around with an intern; after all Clarence Thomas (Supreme
>Court Justice) did practically the exact same thing with an employee
>and is roundly hated by feminists to this day. But noooo, quite the
>opposite has happened - and not just in the South either. He's got
>both the social and intellectual levels, and perhaps the biological
>as well sewed up in his hip pocket.
>
>Pirsig says charm is a social level value. It goes hand in hand with
>celebrity. Clinton screwed around with an intern, but so what?
>Practically everybody in that huge teaming group of people who grew
>up in the 60's and 70's either did or knows someone who did something
>similar or something worse. To condemn him smacks of hypocracy to
>them (ok, us), and hypocracy is the kiss of death to that generation.
>We are on the side of intellect, remember?
>
>But back to charm. The Republicans should have realized they were
>fighting a losing battle right from the start. The economy is doing
>great, we're not killing sons by the thousands in some far-off war,
>and women love him. Nobody other than a strict ideologue wants to
>get rid of him. Would Gore be better? No! No Charm! We've learned
>(albeit after the fact) that most of our most charming, memorable and
>beloved President's cheated on their wives too. Had our press and
>moral climate been the same at the time, would be have impeached FDR
>or Kennedy?
>
>Fairness, another social level value, is at work here. In the past
>decade or so we've come to learn all sorts of unsavory personal
>details about other Presidents. Should Clinton be removed from
>office when practically every other President of this century was
>guilty of the same crimes? Is it fair that the press refused to
>report it then but puts it on the front page now? Wouldn't most of
>those other Presidents have denied it too? It is fair to punish the
>one who happened to get caught when all the others got off scot-free?
>It's a speeding ticket kind of logic. Fairness runs as deep in the
>American psyche as charm or celebrity, while abstract indignation
>(another social level value) has lost it's grip. For those wishing
>to convict, the deck was stacked against them from the start. This
>was never a social vs intellectual level battle, if it were Clinton
>would probably be out of office tonight. Instead, it was a Victorian
>social level vs Hippie social level battle; and the Hippies
>outnumbered the Victorians.
>
>My best to all,
>Mary
>
>
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