Subject: Slick Willey......
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 144933 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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.......It is hardly surprising that our EMF bureaucrats "dissemble"
in their public information press releases (most recently the "chairman"
of the EMF RAPID working group report), they have such an 'inspirational'
example to lead them......guru.......
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12:11 AM ET 08/18/98
Cynicism, hostility from Americans who saw Clinton
By Steve James
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Clinton's TV admission
Monday that he had a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky
was met with stunned silence, cynicism and outright hostility by
some Americans who watched the speech.
``How can he say (in January) he had no sexual relationship
and now he says he did?'' asked Luis Colon, a building security
guard in Los Angeles. ``You can't have it both ways.''
Colon, who said he was a Clinton supporter, said the effect
of the scandal could undermine anything Clinton has achieved.
''He's been a good president, but this will demolish what he has
done before in the last six years.''
``I think he outright lied,'' said lawyer Christine
Nickerson in Boston. ``The last time he spoke ... he said he had
no improper relations with that woman. I think that the lie is
the problem not the sexual relationship.''
The only things that disturbed the silence in the bar of San
Francisco's swanky Sheraton Palace Hotel were Clinton's voice, a
woman's gasp as the president acknowledged having had an
inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky and a male customer who
exclaimed, ``He's so good -- so convincing.''
Two lawyers in Los Angeles watched Clinton on TV in a
downtown bar. ``He seemed more angry than I expected,'' said
one, Neal Svalstad. ``I expected more of a 'mea culpa' and he
went on the attack.
``It shows what a political animal he is. In the short-term,
I think it will have a negative effect (on the office of the
presidency). In the long-term, it depends on the (Independent
Counsel Kenneth) Starr investigation comes up with.''
His colleague Blake Williams, who voted for Clinton, said he
was disappointed the president had changed his story from when
he gave a deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment
lawsuit in January.
``It undermines his ability as president, now the truth is
out and he has in essence admitted he lied.
``He's never had a crisis to deal with, so historically,
this is what he will be remembered for,'' said Williams. ``The
last person to lie to the American people should be the
president.''
Williams believed the president should be held to a higher
moral standard. ``Whatever his life is like (in private), he
should be able to keep himself in control for four years.''
Jose Morales, a Los Angeles parking attendant who was born
in El Salvador, was laughing, saying this kind of public scandal
would never happen in his homeland.
``Nobody questions the president in El Salvador or Mexico,''
he laughed. ``What's the point of this, we are not going to get
anything out of it.''
Edwin Mangis, a Boston hospital official, said, ``It's about
time. The president finally took responsibility for his own
actions. It's really unfortunate he had to lie.
``But now it should be put in the hands of Congress and they
should decide what to do about it. He basically plays with words
a lot, he basically lied to the American public.''
A few psychologists, who were in San Francisco for a meeting
of the American Psychological Association, reacted in different
ways to the president's speech.
One from Atlanta, who asked not to be identified, said he
was glad that Clinton accepted blame for a personal problem.
''Unlike some of his prior statements, he did what he should
have done a million times before. He said 'I did it and it's
none of your business.'''
But another from Boston, who also requested anonymity, was
pessimistic and said Clinton came across as overly cautious.
``Even tonight he never said 'I lied.' He was not
forthcoming ... and I think a lot of people will be frustrated
with the way that he's not come forward with the full truth,''
the Boston psychologist said.
``My sense is that people will respond similar to that way I
have, and I voted for the guy twice,'' he said.
One high-profile attorney in Los Angeles, who requested
anonymity, summed it up thus, ``Slick Willie got away with
murder, (but) he wants to go down in history as a great
president and he will be remembered only for his dishonesty to
the public.''
^REUTERS@
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