The Clinton Defense isn't confined to law or politics or public relations. It eats away at the general tone of society. He called it a private affair. I don't know why it wouldn't be a private matter,'' he said. If something that happened 21 years ago with a woman who invited, at least under her story, the president to her hotel room and she was not happy with what happened, I don't know why that's not a private matter.
Sexual assault is now a private matter.
When he realized the import of his words, the senator apologized. Possibly it occurred to him just what he was condoning. Or possibly it occurred to the women of Vermont, their fathers and brothers. Let's hope so. One can't help wondering if the senator would have been so quick to withdraw his words if the woman in question had not been an obvious lady, soft-voiced and genteel, but a working girl with big hair.