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...betrayed. He said so in Newsweek last week. Former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said something similar in TIME. But what exactly is the nature of these betrayals? They surely didn't believe, until Aug. 16, that Monica Lewinsky was making it all up. Stephanopoulos helped quash "bimbo eruptions" during the 1992 campaign, and both aides spun mightily for the President they now say can't be trusted...
What troubled me as I left for this trip was the possibility that the recent bimbo eruptions have made it even more difficult for Americans abroad. Being rather old-fashioned about what is appropriate to discuss with someone I've just met--at least, judging by what's been in the papers, more old-fashioned than the President--I wasn't looking forward to remarks like "I've never understood why you Americans are so hung up on sex" or "I can't understand why you Americans continue to make such randy people President...
...privacy--can pose a real burden on family life. Further, candidates must now raise hundreds of thousands of dollars just to run competitively. Months (and possibly even years) of flagrant solicitation just to keep your job is something few would want to endure. Further, in the age of "bimbo eruptions" and "I didn't inhale," skeletons seem eager to jump out of the closet at the slightest hint of public ambitions...
...problem for Clinton is longer term: Paula Jones may have lost the case, but she went a long way toward winning the war about what kind of legacy Bill Clinton will carry into history. Perhaps it is easier to see now why all those bimbo hunters and Dustbusters were necessary. As a Clinton adviser put it, "Just think of what they got into the public arena. They did very well. Some of it is irreparable." This adviser, who goes back to the earliest days of the Clinton campaign, suggests that Jones' lawyers, knowing they lacked any kind of case, just...
...send a presidency into crisis. But that's all Chicago investment banker Peter Smith paid two Arkansas state troopers and American Spectator scribe David Brock to break the story of "a woman known only as Paula" that brought us Ms. Jones, Ms. Lewinsky and the resulting grand jury and bimbo parade that have become the porn version of Watergate...