August 30, 1998 President Bill Clinton Pres. Bill Clinton traveled to Russia and Ireland this week only to learn that wherever you go, there you are. The president seems shocked to find that he has no place to hide and, for the first time since he's been in office, his smooth talking spin machine isn't working. His good friend, Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn, leveled the hardest blow the president has received yet when he pointed out this week that Clinton's affair with Lewinsky wasn't merely "inappropriate" it was "immoral." We're not sure if the president understands what Lieberman means, but we do know one thing...he gets a down arrow. Meanwhile, Gov. Christie Whitman is currently in the west covering, roughly the area between St. Louis and Japan. But before she left, she put the kibosh on a ugly little system they started at the Port Authority to allow the commissioners to weigh in on the selection of police officers. Those kind of patronage games are widespread throughout New Jersey. Whitman herself has awarded jobs to political cronies. But that doesn't make it any more despicable and its impressive that the governor decided to draw the line, if only for the Port Authority Police. Her program to combat violence in the schools was more talk than substance, but its a tough issue, so it doesn't affect her arrow status. Her open space speech to the home builders wasn't bad either. She gets an upper. But Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer gets a down arrow. The mayor made a bad decision backing the Trenton leaders of the "Million Kids March" and he has yet to act decisively. Palmer has done a great job of providing leadership to melting pot city like Trenton with its many ethnic and racial communities so he knows better than to equivocate, even a little bit, on the anti-Semitism that was coming out of too many of those heading up the "Million Kids March" team.
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