Ross Perot happens to have asked, in a public TV show, the question I myself have posed: Why won't President Clinton release his medical records? Is he hiding something? Past treatment for drug use, perhaps? You have no answer for the question either. So when a President shrouds his personal medical report in secrecy, we can only speculate on his physical fitness for the office.
As for my moral views and judgments, its none of your business how they are framed, anymore than my sex life is your business, which its not.
However, when the President is using the Oval Office as sexual romper-room, with underling federal employees, which conduct moves him to lie to the American people, impede a lawful investigation into perjury in a civil sexual harassment trial, then yes, I think that is my business.
Fwiw, I still do consider Clinton to be Caligula-like, because while Caligula was given to outrageous acts, so is Clinton with his "oral sex isn't sex, therefore I was truthful" argument. He may as well have argued that he didn't perjure himself because he had his fingers crossed while he spoke the oath to tell the truth. I do not believe that hairsplitting over precise definitions will shield President Clinton from being guilty of perjury. When the Veterans Administration employee was recently prosecuted and convicted of perjury, that perjury was described by the judge as "making statements designed to mislead the court". Surely that was what Clinton was doing to the Paula Jones court, and he has even admitted as such. |
