Yes, there's crypto content in this msg... a passing reference four paragraphs down. Somebody said:
The annoying thing about Clinton's recent behavior is that he never comes right out and apologizes, but the press always says he does. Somebody goes on to do the whole Apology Watch number in detail.
It doesn't matter. One commentator a few weeks ago had a good line for it: "All mea and no culpa." But so what? This whole apology watch is totally meaningless. We know he can perform sincere-looking speeches on demand, and that's largely why we elected him. If he gives another one and says this time that he's really <very> <very> sorry and he's guilty as hell, I couldn't be more impressed. Or less. What he says about it is irrelevant. This whole "sex scandal" thing is ludicrous also -- we knew he was a horn-dog when we elected him. Yes, my sexual morality is considerably higher than his, but so what? Sexual abstinence has never been a criterion for being President, and probably only one President in living memory <didn't> have sex outside of wedlock... Peter Langston published a "Know your Presidents" column in the last few days, a quiz regarding which Presidents had done what to whom in the Oval Office. Regarding covering up the sex -- so what? When he said they weren't having sex back in February, she was denying it at the time, so it'd take a pretty sleazy character to say he was schtupping her and she was lying about it. The fact is that this sex between consenting adults thing is the best Starr could do with his Whitewater investigation after umpteen years and witnesses and millions of dollars, and I'm not impressed. I'm <much> more impressed with the kind of allegations Softwar digs up -- sweetheart deals for some company to send encryption to China while sitting on the bulk of the domestic encryption industry, for example. If he's really done something that involves treason or high crimes and misdemeanors, let's hear about it and act on it. But airing soiled linen in public isn't germane. If they <do> decide this is now a requirement for high office, I'd like to see all the Congresscritters who've had sex out of wedlock and concealed it take one step forward. Shall we make hypocrisy in high office impeachable also? Today Dave Farber noted that if the CDA were constitutional (which it isn't) Congress wouldn't have been allowed to drool over all these salacious bits on the public networks. Jim