I have several problems with this defense. Only forty-two men in the history of the world have been president of the United States. No others we know have had an affair with an intern. None other has had a sexual harassment suit brought against him while in office. None other has had the sexual bravado of President Clinton that would require such questions to be asked of him to begin with.
Truth is vital to the function of American jurisprudence.
I'm highly suspicious of Mr. Clinton's claim that he lied to protect his wife and daughter from his own misconduct. But for argument's sake, let's accept Mr. Clinton's explanation as fact. But I can think of a lie even worse than Mr. Clinton's. A few years ago, Ron Fitzimmons, national director of the National Abortion Rights Action League, testified before Congress in opposition to legislation that would ban the partial-birth abortion procedure. Mr. Fitzimmons asserted that procedure in question was employed only under the direst of circumstances and, even then, occurred only a countable few times annually.