At last, our long national wet dream is over.
People always act as if semantic issues are nothing but ridiculous quibbles.
Judging from the moralizing of politicians and journalists, you would think that truth is something real and solid, that everybody can see it, measure it, agree on it. But our understanding of our actions is always filtered through our defenses, which give us every possible credit for the purity of our motives. Language is all we have to explain our actions to ourselves, and truth ends up being a matter of semantics, of how we define our terms. And yet I'd bet you money he believed he had made great personal sacrifices to keep his promise to her to refrain from sex with other women. You can imagine him feeling genuinely put upon, thinking about all the women he had NOT slept with, and getting pilloried anyway.