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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
An interesting point that had not occurred to me, but it tacitly goes along with an important "misconception." Clinton wasn't impeached for having an affair--he was impeached for LYING about it UNDER OATH.
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Which most men would do, because until now it truly wasn't a criminally punishable offense even in divorce courts.
Palmeiro lied to Congress, we don't see him up for criminal charges.
Point is the GOP wanted to get Clinton on something, anything and used his lying about an affair (which I again stress most married men would lie about, especially public officials) to try to fry him. Thank God we had a some GOP senators that put the country ahead of partisan politics.
Lying under oath about cheating on your wife..... BIG FUCKING DEAL, it's laughable and sad that we almost destroyed the office of presidency and a man because of that.
It's not like he lied about..... welll we didn't really have a crisis while he was in office for him to lie about.
Lying about weapons of mass destruction and going to war and then changing why we went every 5 minutes.... far more serious.
(And the bs that Bush was given bad information is just that bs..... if you're going to send men and women to war and put their lives on the line, then you better know exactly why and have perfectly clear, defendable reasons that you will stick by.)
If he had said weapons of mass destruction and had stayed with it and never wavered, right or wrong, I'd respect him as a man of conviction..... now I just see him as a weasel that will say and do whatever he wants and fuck the truth. I'm sure the right can say that about Clinton's lie.
If Bush had said "look illegal aliens are a terrorist risk and I'm going to tighten up our defenses as that is a prime way for them to get here"....... I'd respect him as tough on terrorism..... but to make it so you can't carry fingernail clippers on a plane or go outside of an airport and smoke a cigarette without having to check back in, or some of these other rules are ridiculous and aren't going to stop a terrorist.