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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:18 PM
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Bill Clinton has admitted he has lied before
President Clinton today admitted for the first time that he intentionally misled the government and the public about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

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"I tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish that goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false," Clinton said in a written statement read by Press Secretary Jake Siewert.

In an agreement reached with Independent Counsel Robert Ray, Clinton agreed to pay a $25,000 fine and not to seek compensation for attorneys' fees he paid during the investigation. The agreement also ends a bid by the Arkansas Bar Association to disbar the president.

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Now he's doing it again.

Maybe the truth doesn't matter to him and those who keep making apologies for his behavior.

We love Bill, he has high ratings! We don't care if he is secretive (against full public disclosure) and lies frequently.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:20 PM
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1. Good grief!! these posts get sillyer and sillyer!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:20 PM
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LOL
:rofl:
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Proud2BAmurkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:20 PM
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2. Obama hasn't admitted he lied about "mistakenly" pushing the wrong button though
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:23 PM
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3. After 6 years of one fruitless investigation after another...
...the republicans, in desperation, began peeking in bedroom windows to find something, anything, on Bill Clinton.

During the "impeachment" Clinton's poll ratings were at 70%. Upon leaving office, he was at 68%, Americans weren't buying it.

When Democrats begin jumping onto the republican bandwagon to get ammo to attack other Democrats with, that is it for me. They have, for all intents and purposes, just joined the republican party.

How low will they stoop before this is all over? God only knows.
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:24 PM
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4. What does that have to do with lying? n/t
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:28 PM
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7. Obamas supporters rarely, if ever, defend him on the Issues
All they ever do is attack, attack, attack. Apparently they must not trust Obama's strengths to carry him?

So this is what we get, one absurd smear after another.
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:25 PM
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5. Going all out eh ProSmear? nt
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:28 PM
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8. No, Spin4Wes. n/t
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:27 PM
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6. Have you ever lied?
If you had an affair on your wife/husband would you immediately run to her/him and confess?
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:29 PM
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10. "If you had an affair on your wife/husband would you immediately run to her/him and confess?"
Do you believe everyone is Bill Clinton?
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:32 PM
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13. I'm just asking what YOU would do in that situation.
I've been married for 22 years, and have never been unfaithful. But I suspect if I had been I wouldn't immediately "tell the truth" to my beloved husband. I probably would eventually, but it's human nature to try and hide what we perceive to be personally shameful and hurtful to those we love.
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:31 PM
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12. Like that makes what he did any better? Cheating & lying. What an attribute.
Gee.
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:34 PM
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17. So now you are as 'holier than thou' as the Rethugs who tried to destroy him.
OK, I think I get it.
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:38 PM
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20. 'holier than thou' ?
Kerry is being attacked for calling out Bill on his lies, and you are trying to prove that everybody lies?

Wow!
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:40 PM
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22. I was talking about Monica Lewinsky and marital infidelity.
Regarding what Obama said about Reagan, I DO NOT believe that Bill Clinton in any way lied. Deal with it.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:28 PM
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9. Everybody lies.
I question his intentions on this one.

Monica? Who wouldn't have?
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:32 PM
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14. That's a great campaign slogan for Hillary: "Everybody lies."
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:29 PM
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11. Are you aware that you and others like you have become little more than cartoon characters?
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:33 PM
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15. Why: because we don't like lies and the liars who tell them? n/t
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:37 PM
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19. No, because you have zero sense of proportion.
You know what, sweet jeans, yeah, you DO look fat in that dress. Feel better now?
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 06:18 PM
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25. No, because your Obama worship has made you lose your marbles as a Democrat
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Major Hogwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:34 PM
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16. In his book, "My Life" Bubba admitted he had sex with Gennifer Flowers, too.
Edited on Fri Jan-25-08 05:36 PM by Major Hogwash
After lying about it to a national tv audience on January 26th, 1992.

On the "60 Minutes" program, opposite of the Super Bowl.

The same day Hillary defended herself by saying, "I'm no Tammy Wynette, 'stand by your man' woman."

Wanna bet?
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:34 PM
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18. He's a politician. If his mouth is open, he's probably lying.
As I've said here before, politicians are like diapers. They should both be changed frequently for the same reason.
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:39 PM
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21. You make it sound like he admitted it today, when the article is a frigging antique for chrise sakes
If you're going to post antique news, at least put a date with it, will ya? Jeeeesh
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:41 PM
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23. "Bill Clinton has admitted he has lied before." Here:
“That’s beneath the dignity of a former president”
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 06:09 PM
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24. Like I said, it's old old news. BTW, how many threads do you have about it? A couple hundred? Jeesh!
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 06:27 PM
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26. More than you! n/t
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Unbowed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 07:26 PM
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27. You sound as disgusted with Bill Clinton as I am.
I'm not just disgusted, I'm angry. I feel let down as a Democrat. I didn't give a damn about Monica, but this is tarnishing the one good presidency we had in recent years. I wasn't particularly an Obama supporter, but I might be after this, by default. If Hillary is really the strong woman her press claims she is, then she should start by taking control of her own campaign. How can she run the country when she can't even muzzle her spouse? Good Lord!
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