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I, for one, have sympathy for Monica.

Frankly, I think Monica is lucky to be alive. If it weren't for the fact that Linda Tripp went public, her life could have ended tragically years ago. I'm a guy who has sadness for people who commit high level heinous crimes. It's not really so much sadness for them, as a sadness from the realization of what could have been, and what they became instead. Sure I have sympathy for Monica.

As a young woman with terrible parents, she was brought up with no sense of right or wrong.

I'm not sure why you take her folks to task though. Perhaps you know or remember something I don't. Young people at 21 years of age make their own decisions. No matter what the parents were, the individual knows what right and wrong are. They are free agents. From experience, I can tell you that you can do everything possible to impress upon your kids, right from wrong. They will either listen or not. Sadly, NOT is the decision some kids make. Parents ARE NOT responsible for what their adult children do. The adult children are.

She thought using her sexuality would lead to marriage with the married President of the USA.

Yes, she probably did. My what a childish thought that was. She was a stupid young woman living out a childish fantasy. And Bill Clinton was living out his own childish juvenile fantasy wasn't he. Only in his case, it was also a sick twisted abusive fantasy. The lout should have been removed from office within days of this becoming public. Here was a man-child at 50 years plus, with no self-control whatsoever. He had no morals, no sense of right and wrong, and his finger on the nuclear trigger. Not much before or sense revealed what a disgusting unqualified person we had to lead the nation from the White House.

(Marilyn Monroe may have had the same idea and she was at least 15 years older than ML).

John and Robert were the louts in that day. John had a relationship with her, and he then handed her off to Robert. Ruled a suicide, I'm not convinced of that by a long shot. Robert's story had always hung on his statement that he was in Washington, D. C. on the night she died. Years later, I saw Peter Lawford state that Robert spent the night at his home in Los Angeles the night she died. There but for the grace of God, would have gone Monica Lewinsky.

Sadly, unlike Donna Rice, she has not been able to rise above this disgrace. For that, I feel very sorry for her.

I think Donna Rice had something on the ball to begin with. Yes she screwed up, but the woman was no Monica Lewinksy. She was intelligent. She looked back at what she had done, and she realized it was wrong and she took steps to change her life. Monica never did. I will say, that I think this book and the resulting interviews will probably help Monica get back on track. Hopefully she will come off as an adult who has seen the error of her ways, and sees Bill Clinton exactly for who he was and still is. If she's smart, she'll invest what she reaps from this book, and live out her life on a better plane. If she comes off as a low-life, and squanders whatever she reaps from this, then she's doomed. And if she does that, it's going to be hard for me to think she doesn't pretty much deserve to live that way, even if I would wish better for anyone.

I hope one day she gets her act together and finds some sort of happiness.

Well, maybe that's just ahead. I'd like to think so.

The press destroyed her to such a degree that we still call oral sex “a Lewinsky.” How sad...

Well, the press didn't help her any, but Monica is the one who destroyed herself. I don't think it's reasonable to think the press was going to take a pass on this sort of thing. It was a major scandal, and should have brought down the President. Clinton himself should have avoided this situation. If he couldn't resist her, he should have had her reassigned or fired. The fact that he couldn't manage his way out of this sort of thing, proves how unfit to be president he was.

Not trying to be argumentative. This is just my take on it. Take care. Thanks for the comments.

I take her parents to task because I remember the infamous interview with Larry King in which neither parent would condemn Clinton for his behavior toward their daughter. In fact, Dr. Lewinsky seemed rather proud that his daughter was servicing the President. With parents like that, you don’t grow up with a strong belief in right and wrong.

And didn’t the mother write some tell-all about her affairs with opera singers? Remember something like that.

If it weren't for the fact that Linda Tripp went public, her life could have ended tragically years ago.

EXACTLY!! Just wonder if Monica has come to realize that yet. She should give her a public 'thank you' because Linda went through hell because of her.