Paula Jones challenges Clinton to debate - Says he lies in new book in denying harassment

cnn.com ^ | June 30, 2004

[HAL9000]

Excerpt -

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee whose sexual harassment suit against President Clinton helped trigger his impeachment, is challenging him to debate her publicly after he again denied harassing her in his new best-selling memoir.

"God, I and he knows what he did," Jones told CNN on Tuesday.

"Bill Clinton has a very big problem with telling the truth, and I think most of the American people know that.

"I'm not afraid of debating him because I know what happened, happened. He says it didn't happen, but it did happen," she said.

"I'm not embarrassed or ashamed to be out and meet him eye-to-eye and tell him he knows he did what he did to me. But Bill Clinton would never agree to something like that."

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[glock rocks]

I want to see Tanya Harding challenge him to a boxing match.

[BipolarBob]

Jones,Flowers and Lewinsky all have different versions than Klintoons book "My LI(f)E". And lets not forget Juanita Broderick. Bill the jury has a verdict - Mene Tekel Upharsin. You have been weighed in the balance and been found wanting.

[ChewedGum]

I would watch it, but only if both parties were wearing boxing gloves! (Here is a refresher in case you missed the original match - I know I did!)

Gum

[SerpentDove]

I just heard a blurd on ABC radio news that says Paula Jones is supposed to be on some show this week saying she WAS part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy"...

Not sure I heard right, but....?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

This old world sure is looney.

[tdadams]

Is anyone keeping a list yet of who all has said Clinton lied about them (some of whome have corroborating witnesses to back them up) in his book?

I hope the New York Times has this classified under Fiction.

[Inyokern]

The Clinton Memorial

[Boundless]

> "Bill Clinton has a very big problem with
> telling the truth, ...

For those open to considering evolutionary psychology,
there's an interesting article on New Scientist:
Sneakiest primates have biggest brains

Key quote:
However, it is still not clear whether primates are
ever aware of being deceptive. They may have no concept
of dishonesty, knowing simply from experience that these
behaviours get the result they want.

Perhaps some subset of the human genotype is predisposed
to deception. If so, could we spot them by which party
they join? :-)

[SwinneySwitch]

The Psychopath Defined

http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/robert_hare/5.html?sect=19

The work of Hare and his associates clarified a set of diagnostic criteria that offers a practical approach to both the assessment and treatment of psychopathy. The PCL-R items are grouped around two basic factors, affective/interpersonal features and socially deviant lifestyle (both of which have been divided further into four facets, two each for the two factors). Refocusing the idea of antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy is characterized by such traits as

lack of remorse or empathy
shallow emotions
manipulativeness
lying
egocentricity
glibness
low frustration tolerance
episodic relationships
parasitic lifestyle
persistent violation of social norms

It remained to translate the academic and professional work into a form that ordinary people could understand, so in 1993, Hare published Without Conscience. His purpose was to warn people about those predators who walked among them, and to provide a way for those with shattered lives as the result of an encounter with a psychopath to deal with it. He believes that, for their own protection, it's crucial that people learn to identify a psychopath who may be very close to them.

Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison and who don't commit violent crimes. However, they do often commit violations of another sort: They exploit people and leave them depleted and much the worse for the encounter. They prove to be treacherous employees, conniving businessmen, or immoral officials who use their position to victimize people and enrich themselves.

Hare says that we know little about these individuals in terms of systematic study about how the disorder manifests in the public at large. Nevertheless, there are indications that the personality structure and propensity for unethical treatment of others is common to both criminal and noncriminal psychopaths.

What's missing in psychopaths are the qualities that people depend on for living in social harmony. In this book, Hare estimated (conservatively) that there were more than two million psychopaths in North America. "Psychopathy," he insisted, "touches virtually every one of us."

[vpintheak]

Lies and the lying lier that tells them.

[Rastus]

It's hilarious that the only discussion the release of his book has engendered is about impeachment. That's all his presidency will be remembered for. Even the lamestream media can't steer the discussion in another direction.