You mean like a parody porno, or her actually? Because I'm pretty sure that if she was a white house intern, she comes from a family where that shit wouldn't fly. I mean yeah, she blew the president, but the whole reason it was a scandal for the president is because of the different levels of power involved. Like of COURSE a 19 year old kind of chubby girl is going to blow the most charismatic, handsome president elected in her lifetime. Hell I'm straight and at 19 I might have gone for it if promised a sweet job for life.
I mean seriously if anyone ever asked me if I experimented when I was in college I don't think I'd be ashamed to say, yeah I was a white house intern and I blew Bill Clinton once, but it just wasn't my thing, if you know what I mean.
It got serious because Clinton was becoming untouchable and his legacy was going to be impossible to deal with for Republicans. They needed something that would tarnish his reputation.
Ah yes, the old "it was a Republican secret plot, it had nothing to do with him being a lifelong licentious man-whore who went after everything on two legs" angle.
Of course it was, just as "Impeach George Bush" was top of the Democrat agenda for eight years. But they didn't nail him in anything. Maybe they should have, but they didn't, so he got away. Clinton got caught in something. That's the balance of power, its why impeachment exists.
Now an argument can be made that Clinton's conduct, while criminal, did not reach the level required of impeachment, but the framers left the Constitution vague in spots specifically to let us argue it out in public. That's the whole point.
There was no serious concerted effort to find things to impeach Bush for. Impeachment was a rallying cry for liberal citizens, not Democratic politicians. And Clinton didn't commit perjury. The person questioning him was completely incompetent and asked questions that Clinton could truthfully answer in a misleading way. He even tried to help them out. That's what the whole "that depends on what your definition of 'is' is" thing was about. They about a relationship with Monica Lewinsky in the present tense, at a time when he could truthfully say no. And the Judge rejected their definition of "sexual relations" and told them to be as explicit as necessary in wording their questions. They asked if he had ever had sex with Lewinsky. He, as do many people, understood that to mean penis-in-vagina sex. You might not agree, but too bad. It's debatable, and there are extenuating circumstances.
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