Therefore I am a liar. You feel you can never climb out of the box. Clinton does not seem to mind. Scarier still, he does not seem to notice. Truth has a purity.
Truth is absolute.
When, however, words and memory are entirely instrumental, as they are for Clinton, truth is defined not epistemologically but politically. Days before going before the Starr grand jury, the White House was reportedly polling and floating trial balloons in the papers to determine what confession would fly. The truth is not what happened. It is what sells. And because Clinton is so good at selling, he has never needed truth as it is conventionally understood.