I agree that the "couch" comment was figurative, not literal, but I think it was definitely intentional - both for him and for her. The image is that Hillary is not the doormat who just accepted her husband's philandering and Bill can still manage to evoke sympathy from his wet panty admirers - poor Bill, the most powerful man in the world *forced* to sleep on the couch!
He's still playing the arousal gappers for the emotional fools they are. I'm sure he uses this line on the chicks when he's trying to get to bed with them. "Even when ahh was President of the United States, mah wahhf made me sleep on the couch..."
(with some lip biting for additional effect).
I think I object. Scum that he is, He was still the
president. The White House exists for his use.
It's not something that Hillary had any right to control.
If she had a beef with POTUS, SHE should have left the White House.
Bob Schieffer asked Dan Rather this morning if Clinton meant it literally and Dan said yes.
There had been no indication that I had interpreted prior to hearing that, that Clinton was speaking metaphorically--and I know how to perceive a metaphor when I see one. It was typical Clinton embellishment of his story that he wants people to think he literally slept on a couch. And now Danny Rather confirms that Clinton is saying he really really slept on a couch (I think Danny believes him, no surprise).