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...volume of sexual detail represents an enormous danger to the White House; everything whispered, rumored and wondered about this story now goes directly into the public consciousness about Clinton. He is immune to filters now. And so the details themselves needed to be turned into a weapon against Starr, which is exactly what presidential advisers began to do even before his report was released. White House aides charged that Starr had gone way too far in including so much embarrassing detail, all designed to do nothing less than force the President from office one way or another. Including all those...
Starr, in turn, has had his response to this charge ready and waiting for weeks: the President's evasive testimony made the detail essential to proving the case for perjury. Though the President promised at his Friday-morning prayer breakfast not to hide behind legalisms, that is precisely what his lawyers put forward at a news conference that very afternoon, when they tried to argue--once again--that lying did not necessarily constitute perjury. Monica's recollections of their activities would clearly fall under the definition of sexual relations, which the President denied having in his deposition for the Paula...
Then there was the sheer impact of his recklessness and arrogance. He had chosen to seduce, under the eyes of his staff and security detail, not only an employee half his age but one who was indiscreet from the start, sending mushy notes by messenger, telling her mom and her friends and her therapist, all but skywriting over the Capitol that she had bagged the Big Guy. It's not comfortable to be a politician riding the coattails of a man with a death wish. Among the requirements of his apologies to fellow Democrats was the assurance that there were...
...outraged" by Clinton's behavior, but added that Starr lacked all sense of proportion. "He's trying to get Clinton by shocking the sensitivities of the public. There very well may be a snap-back reaction to this." California Democrat Zoe Lofgren said that for all the stomach-turning detail, Clinton doesn't appear to have crossed the bar for impeachment. "If you look at the supporting evidence, it's kind of shaky [on obstruction and tampering]. It's really about sex and lying about sex," she said...
...have Mr. Starr's report (Mr. Starr, now there's a whole other concept) giving a grateful populace such detail about the President's sexual encounters with Ms. Lewinsky that we hardly know how to thank him. How nice. I'm certainly glad that's been established beyond a reasonable doubt...