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Date: 2001-03-22 18:12:36

Comment:

I agree - who cares if Joe Blow (no pun intended) cheats on his wife (or vise versa), he is not a public figure.  Our dear friend Billy will be written up in history books and will be read by every high schooler in the country - is this something that you would want your children to read?  To know that he lied about it, and basically got away with it.  I mean come on here.  

Anyway, I think the real issue here isn't that he had "relations" unbecoming of the president, it is about not taking responsibility for your actions when faced with them.  He took an oath to uphold the law. Did he? No.  He lied to the grand jury on TV, in front of the people he supposedly represents, with the attitude that he was above the law.  It seems he was right.  Anyone else would be looking at jail time! I find it all very depressing.

Another problem that has stemmed from all this is that now children too young to understand are asking the questions on why? What is? For example:  My friend's 8 year old doesn't understand why the President didn't get "into trouble".  He did something bad, but didn't get in trouble. The little guy also wants to know what a bl*w job is. I wouldn't want to have to explain that, but I couldn't lie about it either.