Commentary
1 Feb 1998
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Commentary
1 Feb 1998
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[The following are all my personal opinions, so don't blame anyone else for them.]
Q: Do you think Bill Clinton had a relationship of some sort with Monica Lewinsky?
A: No proof as yet. Men are all pigs, so the fact that one man has an affair would
hardly qualify as a totally unexpected surprise.
Q: Is there a right-wing conspiracy to topple Clinton?
A: No, not a conspiracy, just a bunch of incredibly mean-spirited people who would
like to see him gone.
Q: Don't you believe that a man who breaks his sacred marriage vows is unfit for
public office?
A: President Eisenhower seems to have done an excellent job of serving his country
as a general during World War II despite an extramarital affair.
President Kennedy's resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis was satisfactory despite
the fact that he was also unfaithful. Talent for leadership, it would seem,
is not necessarily correlated with political party or respect for marriage vows.
Q: Is the media to blame?
A: Sure, why not; there's plenty of blame to go around.
Q: Do you think the US will attack Iraq to divert attention from this scandal? (As
in "Wag the Dog")
A: If the US does attack Iraq, it's because Saddam Hussein has become very dangerous
and needs to be stopped. It would be in reaction to events which have been in motion
literally for months -- far before this scandal became public. The only people who
seriously think an attack on Iraq is a diversionary tactic are the whacked-out
loonies on the fringes of every conspiracy theory known to humanity. Well, that's
what the Trilateral Commission and the Masons told me.