"One little shake of this baby and I'm a clean slate ready to be rewritten. heheheh!"
Posted on 06/16/2004 4:43:29 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Clinton Calls Impeachment Battle 'Badge of Honor'
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) called his fight against impeachment a "badge of honor" and his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky "morally indefensible" in a CBS television interview.
In the hourlong interview on CBS "60 Minutes" this Sunday, two days before publication of his memoir "My Life," Clinton said he was proud of his successful fight against impeachment, the network said in excerpts released on Wednesday.
"I didn't quit, I never thought of resigning and I stood up to it and beat it back," he said.
"The whole battle was a badge of honor. I don't see it as a stain, because it (the impeachment process) was illegitimate," added Clinton, who called the process "an abuse of power."
Clinton's more than 900-page memoir, published by Alfred A. Knopf, hits book stores on June 22.
He told "60 Minutes" that high on his list of regrets was his affair with Lewinsky, which he called "a terrible moral error."
Clinton said his wife, Hillary, and daughter, Chelsea, were able to overcome the effect of the revelation of the affair through counseling.
The former president said Hillary needed time with him to decide whether she would stay married to him.
"We'd take a day a week, and we did -- a whole day a week every week for a year, maybe a little more -- and did counseling," said Clinton. "We did it together. We did it individually. We did family work."
Clinton said there was no rational explanation for his adulterous behavior.
"I did something for the worst possible reason. Just because I could," the former president said. "I think that's just about the most morally indefensible reason anybody could have for doing anything."
Clinton also discussed other issues during the interview, including the war on terror and Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and regretted his failure to convince Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) to accept a proposal he thought could finally bring Middle East peace, CBS said.
Didn't he think of himself as a pickle?
I had enough of Bush lying from hanging around Chiraq since D-Day, I didn't need to punish myself further by listening
or watching the recap.
Yes, he said he felt like a pickle.
And I was very proud of President Bush for displaying a gentlemanly and honorable demeanor. It highlighted Clinton's insanity all the more. You can bet President Reagan would have done exactly the same as GWB.
I've never read it, but this Herostrates character sounds like our Willy Boy. All ego, and no honor.
Herostrates was a historical figure, Švejk a fictional one (the funniest book I've ever read!)
To think that an interviewer would pass up the opportunity to ask questions about his relationship with all of these women is simply unbelievable. Especially, the charge that Juanita Broaderick made against Clinton......
"To think that an interviewer would pass up the opportunity to ask questions about his relationship with all of these women is simply unbelievable."
There is an interviewer who once said that a person can lie and still be an honest man. His name was ...
Great line. It actually made me laugh out loud.
"One little shake of this baby and I'm a clean slate ready to be rewritten. heheheh!"
What an as*s!!!!!
Geez, aint that the truth. etch a sketch.
Clingon is a MALIGNANT NARCISSISTIC personality disODER.
Yep, those statements in the first paragraph prove it.
He is the real thing.
Thanks for the ping!
This is the point. In this whole article the impeachment is referred to as "my impeachment battle" or "my fight against impeachment" or anything but "my impeachment." I smell a rewriting of history
You still got impeached, Slick. History will show you to be a slug of a president.
In my world, it is dishonor.
And, furthermore, with all that touchy-feely family counseling isn't the old jerk-off still cheating on his wife, who really quite frankly, doesn't seem to give a damn as long as she can feed on his political persona? I'm thinkin' their counseling involved plotting devious schemes to get even with Mrs. Clinton's VRWC.
Sometimes, I wish Kerry would win just to prevent these two creeps from being co-perpetrater presidents. Can you imagine the squirting catsup fight that would go on between the smartest woman of the universe and the craziest woman of the universe? Snarl.....hiss......
It's unfortunate that these two aren't just a television reality series show rather than in positions of political power where they can really wreck havoc and chaos on us.
>"I did something for the worst possible reason. Just because I could," the former president said.
Wholly cow! A statement, made by Clinton, that we know is true, beyond a shadow of a doubt!
This is one for the history books.
That's what sKerry calls himself too. He has many of the same characteristics.
You need a barf alert on your tagline!
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