Either the President had an affair and he lyed, or he didn't. Either he tried to obstruct justice by telling others to lye under oath, or he didn't.
He may have done the first, but I doubt very much whether he's dumb enough to have done the second. And as far as the first's concerned, sorry: I am SICK AND TIRED of people saying that who he gets off with is Paula Jones's lawyers' business, much less the public's. This is prurience, pure and simple: those who protest that they're so SHOCKED are precisely those who want to know ALL the details. Of course he should simply have refused to depose to the Jones bunch about anything other than Jones. That was stupid. But really, this prying into everyone's bedroom (or trousers) has got to stop. It's absurd.
Here's the take of a Frenchwoman from today's IHT:
As a French citizen, permit me to say that I generally admire and love Americans but right now find them utterly ridiculous. What business of theirs is the president's private life?
A president, or any other man, has the perfect right to as many mistresses as he wants, doesn't he? If Americans do not want their politicians to have mistresses, why don't they kick all the bimbos out of political workplaces?...
Don't [Americans] realize that their narrow-minded puritanism has made them the laughingstock of other nations?...
You gotta admit: it's a legitimate point of view; one with which I sympathize. |
