--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Robert, it's true that Bill Clinton is a "certified" liar, > and that's unfortunate. He was disbarred from practising > before the Supreme Court and disbarred from the practise > of law for 5 years in his home state of Arkansas because > he admitted to making misleading statements under oath.
Not surprisingly, Marek doesn't mention what those misleading statements were *about*: whether Clinton had been having a sexual dalliance with an intern--obviously an issue of extreme and urgent importance to the nation. Nor does Marek mention the *context* of those misleading statements: a deposition in a sexual- harassment suit for actions that allegedly took place years before he became president, brought by right-wingers intent on bringing him down, for the express purpose of embarrassing him and, hopefully, catching him in a perjury trap concerning his relationship with said intern. As we know, the right-wingers successful, except when it came to impeaching him for those dreadful misleading statements on which hung the very welfare of the country. They did impeach him, but the Senate had the good sense not to give them the conviction they longed for, despite their best efforts. And the sexual-harassment lawsuit was dismissed before the trial for failure to demonstrate damages. The plaintiff, a pathetic tool of the right wing, reaped $850,000 from Clinton in a settlement he agreed to while her appeal of the dismissal was still in process. He should, of course, have told the truth, even knowing it might mean the end of his marriage. He should not, of course, ever have dallied with the intern and put himself in that position--if only because he knew the right-wing was out to get him, and he should have resolved to keep it in his pants for the eight years he was in the White House and not give them the chance they craved to do him in. What's remarkable is that he not only survived, but did so with approval ratings throughout the scandal and impeachment that are among the highest any president has ever received on a sustained basis. And his approval ratings have remained high ever since, here and abroad, until the Obama campaign began its own insidious attempts to bring him and Hillary down by painting them as pandering to racists--a plan that comes damn close in terms of cynicism and viciousness to that of the right-wingers a decade previously. I'm not going to devote a separate post to the vicious and astonishingly dishonest post from HuffingtonPost.com that Marek put up for our approval. But the utter obliviousness of this sentence to any semblance of reality or fairness simply takes the breath away: "And as the race continues to the bitterest end, I hope that Senator Clinton's many supporters are entirely satisfied that she did this to herself." Clinton's supporters, of course, know to the contrary. It will be a very long time before we can bring ourselves to forgive those who are actually responsible.
