Letter to the editor:

Clinton impeached for lying, not for sex

Tue, Jun 30, 2009 (2:02 a.m.)

In response to New York Times writer Gail Collins’ column published in Friday’s Las Vegas Sun, when are Democrats going to apologize to Republicans for trying for all these years to make people believe that the impeachment of Bill Clinton was all about sex? It was not at all about sex.

Nearly everyone knew Clinton was a womanizer long before he ran for the presidency, except those who hid their heads in the sand, as did his wife. It was never about sex. It was because President Clinton, a lawyer, supposedly learned in the laws of the land, lied under oath, the strongest pillar in a true democratic society.

His shameful disregard for the dignity of the White House Oval Office is the only complaint I have with his behavior. But then, I never expected him to cease his philandering — people like that, with that history, seldom do.

But that’s his problem. Mine is that he set such a blatant example of disregarding the law to the point that one must certainly wonder whether, indeed, our leaders are truly above the law.

Apologies? I‘m still waiting for him to apologize to the American people for lying under oath. What do you think the odds are that that will ever happen?

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