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Re: "The Seduction of a President" by Kenneth Starr



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Alberto,
As Clancy, one of my drinking mates down at the old rubberty dub said,
"What's all the fuss about Clinton? After all he is an American." Only in
America could you have this much hysteria about someone's sword play.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alberto Torchio <atorchio@xxxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, 16 September 1998 3:00
Subject: Re: "The Seduction of a President" by Kenneth Starr


>Mark,
>
>Thank you for giving me the opportunity to write about the subject.
>
>> Why is the European community more dissatisfied with the "report" and
those
>> doing the reporting, than the one who did the acts being reported on? I'm
>> curious.
>
>1. We Europeans certainly don't understand why should a president be
investigated about
>his sexual life. One of the makers of the European Union, M. Mitterand,
president of
>France, had a mistress and had a daughter from her. Nobody cared! He was
criticized for
>his acting in politics, not in bed! Furthermore, how much money was spend
to carry on
>the investigation?
>
>2. We don't understand why should anyone care about the fact that he lied
about his
>affair with a Ms Lewinsky. Who shouldn't have done the same? Does tha fact
that he lied
>make his politics any worse?
>
>3. We certainly don't understand why should he resign just because he lied
about the
>affair. Don't all politicians lie? Hasn't anyone read Machiavelli? He's
certainly lied
>before and on things that are most important. I'm sure he did, because
nobody should be
>so naive about the fact that he might have reached the presidency without
ever lying!
>
>4. We don't understand why he should be impeached. Do the facts look like
the Watergate?
>And how about Reagan and the Iran Contras case?
>
>5. As always, people are fooled by the media. And irresponsible politicans
try to make
>bad things even worse!
>
>Alberto Torchio
> Torino, Italy
>
>
>