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.
This is going to be a LOOOONNNNGGG SUMMER! As if EIGHT YEARS of him was not enough to force on us. I think I'll watch reruns of "Dallas". And I HATE "Dallas"!
>>Clinton Calls Impeachment Battle 'Badge of Honor'<<
So what was Monica...
Bill Clinton's "Nobel Peace Prize"???
No wonder he was celebrating
with a box of cigars.
As expected, not a hint of moral clarity from the wretched scumbag. This is most typical of the world's most dangerous men. Thank God he's no longer president. Now all we have to do is defeat his despicable wife, who is equally unable to tell the difference between right and wrong. God, I wish we could exile the both of them to N. Korea or something.
"a badge of honor"
Hmmmm? That's curious ..?? If impeachment was such a "badge of honor" then why are the Clinton minions constantly spewing that BUSH SHOULD BE IMPEACHED!
Hmmmm? Why would Clinton want to give Bush a "badge of honor" ..?? Interesting?
He wasn't convicted of anything -- yet.
I just finished praying on the free-republic prayer chain for GW.i thanked God for the godly men He has sent to guide this nation.Now i pray that history will soon forget this nefarious,power hungry,sexual predator and the party who hold this little god in high regard.
in Jesus name.
Of course what's ironic is that he's lying and that's what he got impeached for.
I'm a Houston gal, too. And hoping to get back there ASAP. Only a Texan with a secure sense of her heritage could have told it like it was! Regards, and hope to meet you one day at a Houston FReeper event!
BTW, the etch-a-sketch pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?!?
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