He tried that, remember?
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.
He tried that, remember?
Well, if anyone would recognize a stain...
Lying bastard. It was a black mark of disgrace that curses him, his family, and the Democrat Party for all time.
Perjury is perhaps the most nearly-honorable thing that i42 ever did.
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...Not so incredible...
...since BILL CLINTON's Mentor during the Vietnam War, HO CHI MINH, promoted his Communist Vietnamese's Terrorism upon Free Vietnamese in South Vietnam.
...And BILL CLINTON supported HO CHI MINH against American Soldiers fighting for the Freedom of others in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
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Gee, he's a Rhodes Scholar and can't tell the difference between "badge of honor" and "STIGMA".
What on earth is he thinking?
I don't like the man, but if I were advising him, I'd tell him to keep a low profile until all Reagan talk (and preferably until most of the fighting by US troops in the Middle East) is over.
Fined $90,000 for lying under oath and obstructing justice. Forced to pay an $850,000 settlement in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Disbarred in Arkansas. Prohibited from practicing law before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Some badge of honor.
LOL
"if it ain't on a dress, it can't be a stain..."
Assaulting Kathleen Willey in the White House was moral mistake.
Raping Juanita Broaddrick was a moral mistake.
Sexually assaulting Eileen Wellstone was a moral mistake.
Sexually assaulting a former Miss America was a moral mistake.
Giving a "troubled stalker" intern TOP SECRET clearance at the Pentagon was a moral mistake.
Dropping trow and playing with himself in front of Paula Jones while on the job was a moral mistake.
Having thugs threaten Kathleen Willey's children was a moral mistake.
Submitting a false affidavit to the court was a moral mistake.
Committing perjury was a moral mistake.
Trying to fix a federal trial and deny a woman her day in court was a moral mistake.
Allowing Bernie Schwartz to walk free after selling missile technology to the ChiComs and taking 900K from him was a moral mistake.
Playing with Monica and his sink while keeping world leaders waiting in the Rose Garden was a moral mistake.
Having phone sex on an unsecured line and being subject to blackmail by our enemies was a moral mistake.
William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, you disgusting piece of human debris, the biggest moral mistake of all was that your mom didn't provide a condom to whoever jumped into the back seat of that car with her on the night your worthless posterior was conceived.
PS -- Poor Algore. I phoned, sent him faxes, sent him snail mail and sent him email. The only chance he had to be president was to evoke Sect. 4 of the 25th Amendment and declare you incapable of fulfilling your duties. After all, you are a sociopath, and he would have been on solid ground. You didn't just assault and screw all the women. You screwed Algore. He must be grateful. No wonder he has been acting insane lately.
This lying crap has gone on long enough. Do we have any FReepers in England who will go to Oxford, do the research, find Eileen Wellstone, and prove to the whole world that he was kicked out of there and thrown out of the country for sexually assaulting her?
"Does one suppose that Mr. Clinton has some anti-social personality traits?"
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
Bill and Hillary are still married. Damn , I would have never guessed it, When was the last time Hillary cooked old Bill a good meal , or sat with him snuggling before going up to bed? When was the last time they said "I love you"?
The best joke I heard lately was that Ron Reagan the great uniter made another success at his funeral when he had Bill& Hill sleeping together again.
Impeached for perjuring himself in a sexual harassment lawsuit, IIRC.
The 17th President, Andrew Johnson. He survived by one vote in the Senate.
we should Freep 60 Minutes to get him off the air...
"I did something for the worst possible reason. Just because I could," the disbarrd X-president said. "I think that's just about the most morally indefensible reason anybody could have for doing anything." And it was a badge of honor.
"I didn't see as a stain because" if I did I'd of washed it out in my sink empire.
"I didn't quit, I never thought of resigning and I stood up to it and beat it back" which in hind sight, if I'd of just done that in the first place I never would be in this mess!!!
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