It seems to me that we need to examine the meaning of the terms
"Achilles'heel" and " give them enough rope and they will hang
themselves".The second applies to both president and Congress.
While all this analyzing is going on, it is also a good idea to study the
U.S.Constitution, in service for 209 years without interruption.
The American people aren't prudes, they just believe in ordered
government.
The president's deprived youth and his fantastic personal achievements,
as well as his self-destructing actions will make a classic study. Go for
it!
Mary V. Bicouvaris
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Lloyd deMause replied in his last posting:
> "Addiction, in this case sex addiction, is a mental disability, an attempt
> in Clinton's case to fill a deep hole of maternal loss..."
>
> Have I missed something in the news? Has the president been examined by a
> mental health professional and diagnosed as having a mental disability? I
> question the validity of such an assertion that is based on nothing more than
> news reports and and an admission on the president's part of only ONE such
> relationship. I'm no expert, but can one relationship even constitute an
> addiction, much less a disability?
>
> I'm not naive. I strongly suspect that there exists a pattern of extra marital
> sex in the president's past, and that perhaps his partners could even be
> loosely grouped as possessing some similar characteristics. (I would venture
> to guess that he was attracted to most of them because they were in no
> position to compete with his authority or power, a young White House intern
> being a prime example.) However, these are only speculations, hardly based on
> a clinical examination of the man. I find it disturbing that some
> professionals feel informed enough via CNN to venture a clinical diagnosis.
> While historians are often forced to speculate as to the mental state of the
> dearly departed, Clinton is very much alive, and the news is still breaking.
> Therefore I think the jury should remain out on whether or not he has a mental
> disability, perhaps permanently.
>
> Dianne Creagh
> History, SUNY Stony Brook
>
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