Q: SO, YOU DON’T BELIEVE JUANITA BROADDRICK’S CLAIM?
Gore: NO; I DIDN’T SAY THAT. I said I don’t know how to evaluate that, and I didn’t see the interview. But I must say something else to you about this. Why don’t you just stand back up; I’d like to look you in the eye. I think that whatever MISTAKES [Bill Clinton] made in his personal life are in the minds of most Americans must be balanced against what he has done for his public life as president. My philosophy, since you asked about my religious faith, I’m taught in my religious tradition to hate the sin and love the sinner. I’m taught that ALL OF US ARE HEIR TO MISTAKES, that flesh is heir to. And I think that, in judging his performance as a president, I think that most people are anxious to stop talking about all the personal attacks against him. And trying to sort out all of the allegations, and want to, instead, MOVE ON, and focus on the future. Now, I’ll say this to you, he is my friend, and that friendship is important, and IF YOU’VE EVER HAD A FRIEND WHO HAS MADE A SERIOUS MISTAKE and then repaired the friendship and MOVED ON, then you know what that relationship has been like for me. Secondly, I felt the same disappointment and anger at him during the period when all this was going on that most people did. You may have felt a different kind of emotion, I don’t know. I sense that maybe you did. I certainly felt what most Americans did. Third, I have been involved in a lot of battles where he and I have fought together on behalf of the American people, and I think we’ve made a good, positive difference for this country. Number four, I’m running for president on my own. I want to take my own values of faith and family to the presidency, and I want you to evaluate me on the basis of who I am and what you believe I can do for this country as president. Thank you.
This conversation was reprinted in The Weekly Standard, Dec. 27, 1999, p. 2.
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Bottom line: Rape = mistake