At least he wasn't in the doghouse. ;^)
In all fairness when you say "I was sleeping on the couch" it's just a metaphor for the fact you were not sharing the marital bed. I don't think he was LITERALLY saying he was sleeping on a couch at the White House.
He coud have said he was banshed to another room.....but I believe they had separate bedooms anyway. Didn't Hillary say Bill brought in the newspaper to HER bedroom???
Thanks. You saved me the trouble.
Now Clinton's claim that he and Hillary attended counseling each week for a year? Is that what he said?
Somehow, I doubt it. That would have been enough time to discuss Juanita.
I think Clinton needs to "put some ice on it".
At least he wasn't in the doghouse. ;^)
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..."
I see your point. Kinda' like when we say "so-and-so will be sleeping in the dog house".
Dan Rather said this morning on Face the Nation that Clinton means he literally slept on a couch.
It usually is clear when one is speaking metaphorically, and in this case, from the phrasing and repeating of same, it is clear that Clinton wishes to convey the notion that he actually slept on a couch, which is absurd.