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matjmm@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (John Morgan Morris) writes:

Can anyone else compile a better list? I'm just sick of seeing one
candidate getting bashed because he's new to the scene, and another
getting away with everything just because he's been around a while...
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John, Willie-bashing is so much fun because it's so EASY! Honest, I like
Bill Clinton; I think that he's a nice guy, bright, and overall a good
and progressive governor for the state of Alabama. But this parade of
scandals is HILARIOUS! Any day now, I expect to see an illegitimate son
pop out of the woodwork, or maybe revelations that his mother heads up a
coven of witches somewhere in the back woods. Or maybe that the joint he
didn't inhale was smoked in the house Jerry Brown didn't own while he
wasn't there.

It's like probing your best friend about the blind date he's hooked you
up with. First you find out that she really is blind in one eye, the
result of a violent dorm fight in the state women's prison. Where she 
was incarcerated for murdering her fourth husband. For giving her 
incurable herpes. I mean, after a while the news gets so bad that 
it's funny.

(And all the while, your friend is pleading, "Ignore all that stuff!
She's really a neat lady!...")

What small fairness I think should be extended to Willie is that the
media scrutiny is unnecessarily harsh and demeaning. No newspaper
reporter (Doonesbury notwithstanding) is going to get a raise and a
promotion for writing a story that begins with "FLASH! Bill Clinton is
an honest, decent man who has demonstrated sound political
administration skills." The press has lost all moral integrity in this
respect, and I think it's sad.

A better case can be made for what's happened to Jerry Brown with the
latest marijuana charges (not that I care for Jerry, either). This
appears - right now, anyway - to be a story with little or no merit
whatsoever, and I think it's patently unfair for the press to have
pushed this "news" with as little substantiation as it has.

The net result is that these guys wind up spending the bulk of their
time and energy putting down scandal rumors. No wonder we know as little
as we do about the candidates stands on significant political issues.

- Gary Hypes -