Over the years I've periodically been reminded of the many ways in which Bill Clinton's presidency debased our civic culture.
First we had the president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani on NBC on Sunday, explaining to Chuck Todd that "Truth isn't truth" - an invitation, perhaps, to parse the meaning of "Isn't" just as Clinton once parsed the meaning of the word "Is."
Thanks to the #MeToo movement, there's been a long-delayed reconsideration among liberals about their past defense of Clinton's sexual predations.
Clinton's supposedly "Small" lie about sex was not so small coming from the one person uniquely entrusted to uphold and enforce the law.
Clinton's lawyerly prevarications helped create the truth-optional standard by which the Trump presidency operates.
Too, the Clinton machine's relentless efforts to delegitimize the independent counsel by claiming Starr had gone far beyond his original remit to investigate the Whitewater case mirror the Trump machine's attacks on Robert Mueller today.
Anyone who now calls for Trump to be judged severely should acknowledge that we would have been in a better place today if Clinton hadn't been so fervently defended back then.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/opinion/impeachment-trump-clinton.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion
First we had the president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani on NBC on Sunday, explaining to Chuck Todd that "Truth isn't truth" - an invitation, perhaps, to parse the meaning of "Isn't" just as Clinton once parsed the meaning of the word "Is."
Thanks to the #MeToo movement, there's been a long-delayed reconsideration among liberals about their past defense of Clinton's sexual predations.
Clinton's supposedly "Small" lie about sex was not so small coming from the one person uniquely entrusted to uphold and enforce the law.
Clinton's lawyerly prevarications helped create the truth-optional standard by which the Trump presidency operates.
Too, the Clinton machine's relentless efforts to delegitimize the independent counsel by claiming Starr had gone far beyond his original remit to investigate the Whitewater case mirror the Trump machine's attacks on Robert Mueller today.
Anyone who now calls for Trump to be judged severely should acknowledge that we would have been in a better place today if Clinton hadn't been so fervently defended back then.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/opinion/impeachment-trump-clinton.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion
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