I never once said the "Republicans supported Clinton". Of course I never saw the Republicans staging a public display of turning their back on their President either.
Stop putting words in my mouth and we may be able to have a meaningful debate.
I recently heard a story about two 13 year olds on a local school bus having oral sex. When taken to the Principal's Office the young boy and girl claimd they were preforming "oral pleasure" not oral sex.
I wonder where they got that idea?
One thing is for sure, oral sex and turning your back are indeed oxy-morons.
I recently heard a story about two 13 year olds on a local school bus having oral sex. When taken to the Principal's Office the young boy and girl claimd they were preforming "oral pleasure" not oral sex.
I wonder where they got that idea?
One thing is for sure, oral sex and turning your back are indeed oxy-morons.
The point is that these things should not be treated as news. People having sex is not newsworthy, its bad enough that there is an overfixation on sex for marketing purposes but we dont really need to hear about it over and over again on the news.
The news of the two thirteen year olds should have been a private issue between the school and the parents, their claimed excuses should not be broadcast and repeated, its not censorship, its reasonable discretion. I doubt that act could be tied to Clinton because most thirteen year olds were probably too young at the time to even take notice of such things on the news, they wuold have only been 9 years old when Clinton left the White House, 4 or 5 when it was making headlines.
I think you under estimate the learning ability of 4 and 5 year olds. Regardless, your attempt to defend Clinton has terrible time frame memory...
The President's attorneys failed in efforts to block Starr's expansion of his investigation, which also included whether the President himself had lied under oath in his own deposition taken in the Paula Jones litigation. In July 1998, after being granted sweeping immunity from prosecution by Special Prosecutor Starr, Ms. Lewinsky admitted that she in fact had had a sexual relationship with the President that did not include intercourse, but denied that she had ever been asked to lie about the relationship by the President or by those close to him.
On August 17, 1998, the President testified for over four hours before Starr's grand jury on closed-circuit television from the White House. In his testimony, he admitted the Lewinsky relationship, but denied that he perjured himself in the Paula Jones deposition because he did not interpret the conduct with Ms. Lewinsky as constituting sexual relations. On the same evening, he appeared on national television and admitted that he had an "inappropriate relationship" with Lewinsky and had misled the American people about it.
The Senate voted on the Articles of Impeachment on February 12, 1999, with a two-thirds majority, or 67 Senators, required to convict. On Article I, that charged that the President "...willfully provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony to the grand jury" and made "...corrupt efforts to influence the testimony of witnesses and to impede the discovery of evidence" in the Paula Jones lawsuit, the President was found not guilty with 45 Senators voting for the President's removal from office and 55 against. Ten Republicans split with their colleagues to vote for acquittal; all 45 Democrats voted to acquit. On Article II, charging that the President "...has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice"..., the vote was 50-50, with all Democrats and five Republicans voting to acquit.
July and August of 1998 was 6 1/2 years ago Bob, that would place thirteen year olds and 7-8 years old not 4 or 5.
I never said Clinton was to blame either, we were discussing the media bringing the matter into our homes.
My twenty year olds tell me stories of oral sex parties where nobody keeps the same partner and everyone does everyone. I dont know where this behavior was learned, but it wasnt that way when I was their age.
It was a scandal that riveted America. President Bill Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and his subsequent denial of that affair in a legal deposition led to Clinton becoming the second U.S. president to be impeached. Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in the impeachment trial but the scandal tainted his presidency.
Clinton's troubles didn't end with his acquittal. Days before he left office, Clinton admitted that he knowingly gave misleading testimony about his affair with Lewinsky in exchange for Independent Counsel Robert Ray agreeing not to press criminal charges. Clinton's Arkansas law license was suspended for five years, he was fined $25,000 by the Arkansas legal bar and he agreed to give up any claim to repayment of his legal fees in the matter.
In November 2001, Clinton resigned from the Supreme Court bar rather than face automatic disbarment due the suspension of his Arkansas law license. The former president can apply to be reinstated to the bar if he regains his law license in Arkansas or elsewhere.
Clinton is now living in New York, giving the occasional speech and advising his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. It will be up to historians to sort out how the scandal and impeachment will affect how the 42nd president's legacy will by viewed by history.
