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CaptainCourtesy said:
No matter how you attempt to spin it, Clinton's impeachment was a dumb partisan hack attempt by right wingers to attack a very popular left wing President over cheating on his wife, a morality issue. The questions were irrelevant to his Presidency.
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Whatever helps you sleep at night, however you cannot deny that Clinton committed felonies...perjury and obstruction of justice. If you want to give Clinton a pass just because it was about cheating on his hideous spouse, then Nixon should have been given a pass as well as it was over a third rate burglary for the purpose of attempting to eavesdrop on the opposing party's campaign that had no actual effect.
 
ObamacareFail said:
Whatever helps you sleep at night, however you cannot deny that Clinton committed felonies...perjury and obstruction of justice. If you want to give Clinton a pass just because it was about cheating on his hideous spouse, then Nixon should have been given a pass as well as it was over a third rate burglary for the purpose of attempting to eavesdrop on the opposing party's campaign that had no actual effect.
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It having no effect is irrelevant. It's sad that you don't know the difference between cheating on one's spouse and trying to manipulate the political process and how each impacts the country.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
It having no effect is irrelevant. It's sad that you don't know the difference between cheating on one's spouse and trying to manipulate the political process and how each impacts the country.
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Right back at you. You seem desperate to limit the scope of Clinton's crimes to "cheating on his hideous spouse" Clinton was not impeached over cheating on his spouse. He was impeached over perjury and obstruction of justice. He committed exactly the same crimes as Nixon. That Nixon's crimes were politically motivated and Clinton's involved philandering is 100% meaningless. There is no clause in any criminal statutes that gives one a pass it the crimes were committed over sex. What both presidents did falls under the category of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors". Both Clinton and Nixon were sleazeballs. One is not worse then the other. One was merely man enough to resign and avoid putting the nation and his family through impeachment hearings. The other was not.
 
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ObamacareFail said:
Right back at you. You seem desperate to limit the scope of Clinton's crimes to "cheating on his hideous spouse" Clinton was not impeached over cheating on his spouse. He was impeached over perjury and obstruction of justice. He committed exactly the same crimes as Nixon. That Nixon's crimes were politically motivated and Clinton's involved philandering is 100% meaningless. There is no clause in any criminal statutes that gives one a pass it the crimes were committed over sex. What both presidents did falls under the category of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors". Both Clinton and Nixon were sleazeballs. One is not worse then the other. One was merely man enough to resign and avoid putting the nation and his family through impeachment hearings. The other was not.
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Of course you don't see the difference. You don't want to. One was impeached because he lied about cheating on his wife and a right wing partisan Congress didn't like him. The other was impeached because he lied about either being involved in or covering up an attack on the US political process. One has nothing to do with governing the US. The other does. With the former, impeachment was a stupid partisan witchhunt. With the other, the impeachment was an appropriate response to a President interfering with US political process. If you can't see the difference, that's on you.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Of course you don't see the difference. You don't want to. One was impeached because he lied about cheating on his wife and a right wing partisan Congress didn't like him. The other was impeached because he lied about either being involved in or covering up an attack on the US political process. One has nothing to do with governing the US. The other does. With the former, impeachment was a stupid partisan witchhunt. With the other, the impeachment was an appropriate response to a President interfering with US political process. If you can't see the difference, that's on you.
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Once again, Clinton was not impeached for cheating on his hideous spouse, and Nixon was not impeached at all. He avoided that likely fate by resigning. Point is that neither were in trouble over their original issues. They were in trouble over perjury and obstruction of justice in their attempts to cover it up. Your suggestion that Clinton's impeachment is ridiculous based solely on the fact that cheating on his wife does not affect his job is just your opinion. There is nothing in the law or impeachment proceedings that suggests that there must be a connection to how the original crime affects job performance. And to be sure, the act of obstructing justice and commiting perjury is a job performance issue.
 
ObamacareFail said:
Once again, Clinton was not impeached for cheating on his hideous spouse, and Nixon was not impeached at all. He avoided that likely fate by resigning. Point is that neither were in trouble over their original issues. They were in trouble over perjury and obstruction of justice in their attempts to cover it up. Your suggestion that Clinton's impeachment is ridiculous based solely on the fact that cheating on his wife does not affect his job is just your opinion. There is nothing in the law or impeachment proceedings that suggests that there must be a connection to how the original crime affects job performance. And to be sure, the act of obstructing justice and commiting perjury is a job performance issue.
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You still don't understand the difference. Clinton=lying about cheating on his wife. Nixon=lying about the interference with the political process. Clinton=right wing partisan whichhunt. Nixon=President behaving in a way that affects his job. There's the difference.
 
ObamacareFail said:
Once again, Clinton was not impeached for cheating on his hideous spouse, and Nixon was not impeached at all. He avoided that likely fate by resigning. Point is that neither were in trouble over their original issues. They were in trouble over perjury and obstruction of justice in their attempts to cover it up. Your suggestion that Clinton's impeachment is ridiculous based solely on the fact that cheating on his wife does not affect his job is just your opinion. There is nothing in the law or impeachment proceedings that suggests that there must be a connection to how the original crime affects job performance. And to be sure, the act of obstructing justice and commiting perjury is a job performance issue.
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Most people can compartmentalize their job from their personal life. Yes, both Nixon and Clinton committed perjury...but the difference is what they were trying to cover up, an office romance vs corruption, that makes your argument a false comparison. An office romance is not illegal...whereas wiretapping, burglary, thuggery and obstruction of justice, are.
 
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