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This is Dark Cloud on Wednesday, July 29, 1998. Clinton has been subpoenaed and Lewinsky granted immunity. Good grief. If President Clinton succombs to subpoena and testifies before a Grand Jury, the utter ludicrousness of the whole Monica Lewinsky fiasco will achieve a sort of pellucid perfection. As depressing as it is, the fifty million dollar investigation may indeed end up as Lewinsky’s first attorney, Willam Ginzberg, uttered in his last act for that client. Special prosecutor Kenneth Starr may indeed havbe proved that two adults had consensual sex. Whitewater, Travelgate, all the other scandals – alleged – have been brushed away to nothing. All Starr has left is a chance to prove Clinton may have lied about, perhaps, sporadic fellation in the White House with a woman not his wife. It is unclear if Starr would view this as not criminal even within matrimony, but never mind. He has granted Lewinsky and mother immunity. In the not too distant past, it was assumed men would lie under oath to protect the reputation of women they had seduced (so-called) or engaged in the act of mutual adultery. That was a sham, of course. If the woman was innocent, so would the man be, but nonetheless the expressed idea was to protect the woman. Clinton cannot remotely feign that here. The woman not only sought the liason, she bragged about it, convinced herself that President Clinton would visualize a life with her and dump his family. The President, at worse, took advantage of such availability. It is easy to see that neither participant would want to go public with such an affair, for obvious reasons in Clinton’s case, and for fear of annoying him in Lewinsky’s. Nonetheless, they both have, and had, obvious reasons for lying about it and, I admit, ethical ones. It is one thing to if Hillary Clinton demands to know, it is quite another if anyone else, including Kenneth Starr, does so. Orrin Hatch, Senator from Utah, has edged into the momentum wave by chatting amiably about impeachment. Think of it. Adultery as a high crime and misdemeanor. And trying to get emotional stories in alignment as opposed to telling pwerful forces to mind their own business accounts hardly compels Diogenes to faint, either. The military, any military, does it all the time. A letter to the editor in a local paper this month explained how the author, a grown man, had sobbed in humiliation during the fireworks that this President had so demeaned his office. If we are to believe this or treat it seriously, it is apparent that this delicate soul knows nothing about history not imbibed from a baby bottle held by Rush Limbaugh. Clinton’s alleged crimes are not really his crimes. Its not that he has had affairs, but that he could not – like George Bush – keep them quiet. It can be viewed as a major victory for the Special Prosecutor. I am not sure. Having screwed up the Whitewater and affiliated fiascos, Starr literally has to produce, big time, in the Lewinsky matter. Despite all his denials, Starr now has to admit that, indeed, it is a sex case. He has granted the suelte Lewinsky and her adorable mother, complete immunity. For this, Lewinsky will apparently say that she had sex with the President. Clinton will, and has to, deny it. It is the classic he said, she said, and if an impeachment is declared based upon that, we are the least deserving bunch of bozos in existence. I can only hope that Clinton does not succomb to guilt, real or imagined, and confess to this trivial, private, and alleged incident. |
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