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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (18172)7/24/2002 1:04:01 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
guess the fact that several people here (and numerous people elsewhere) have readily "defended" Clinton with what I call the "everybody else does it" or "other people are bad too" defenses indicates the level of moral rot involved.

It's not a defence, It's a perspective check. What he did was wrong, yes. It did damage, yes. But it wasn't some sort of national catastrophe, it did not permanently damage (or even discernably alter) the moral fabric of the nation, and the only thing really unusual about the incident was the amount of attention paid to it.

I don't see it in the same class as Iran/Contra, or Watergate, or the Tonkin Gulf. Lies were involved in all 4 cases, but to me there's a difference between lying about a blow job and lying about an attempt to start a war, or subvert an election, or evade oversight with a highly controversial covert operations.

The nature of the offence is the same; the degree is somewhat different.
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