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It is entirely possible that there was a concerted right wing plan to bring down the President by capitalizing on his great weakness, and all but forcing him to commit perjury in regards to it, without claiming that all (or more than a tiny number) of those who are repelled by what was dredged up had anything to do with the plan.
I think a judgement of whether the lying in particular was a very great sin has a lot to do with whether the President was in fact trapped by a vast (in depth, not breadth) right wing conspiracy, or was simply unwilling to give a plaintiff the justice she sought.
The adultery with the intern in the White House will remain in any event. But even there, I think it is increasingly beginning to sink in that far from being a seduced victim, Monica Lewinsky was on an absolute mission, that began even before she landed in Washington, to seduce the President. I think the evidence for that is overwhelming, and it unavoidably oozes out of the Starr report (given the amount of detail he was determined to provide, for other reasons).
Trashing Monica is not a popular media pursuit, in this age of the primacy of women's issues. And it's really not my aim either. My aim is to show a more balanced picture of a President who was himself more seduced than an intending predator. And who had apparently stopped, or at least greatly reduced his escapades once he landed in the White House, before Monica. (I say that last become not much more comes out of the Jones lawsuit, though they were such looking, and leaking.)
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