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Mike McCurry (born 27 October 1954) is best known as the former press secretary for Bill Clinton's administration. He is also active within the administration of the United Methodist Church, serving as a lay delegate to the Church General Conference and on various denominational boards.
Mr McCurry told the BBC's Newsnight programme President Clinton's behaviour was "surely reckless" and "contrary to the way you would expect a rational human being to behave".
Asked whether he thought Mr Clinton was fit to be president, Mr McCurry, who had maintained his silence on presidential issues since his resignation in October, said: "I have enormous doubts because of the recklessness of his behaviour.
"The nature of this particular affair and then the way he did conceal it really does raise some very profound troubling matters.
George Stephanopoulos
Review of George Stephanopoulos's All Too Human : A Political Education - BrothersJudd.com
Within a short time, Stephanopoulos was fighting off bimbo eruptions, draft dodger stories, and all those myriad other rumors, innuendoes and, as we ultimately discovered, perfectly valid allegations. Always in these situations it is Hillary who demands that the accuser be destroyed, while the candidate dissembles and prevaricates until the story has spun nearly out of control. But these battles themselves have a certain allure:
What began as a strange, even sordid, way to spend my time soon felt natural. Wake me up in the middle of the night, I could have told you all the lies in the Nichols story before I even opened my eyes. I began to think that doing dirty work was not necessary but noble, a landmark on the road to greater good. I began to fool myself, because fighting scandals can be fun; the action is addictive.
Just as the candidate seemed addicted to getting into these messes, the staff seemed to become addicted to cleaning them up, regardless of the validity of the charges or the means they had to employ. The pattern was set which would follow them to the White House and remains with us today (8/07/00). Clinton triggers another scandal, Hillary demands that opponents be crushed, and the staff spins like crazy.
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