Word: sinner
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...between "my wife, our daughter and our God." But it was only hours before the Rev. Jesse Jackson took to his TV bully pulpit to air his pastoral moments with the Clinton family, and only days before the President used Washington's annual prayer breakfast to proclaim himself a sinner. Last week word got out that the President had asked three clerics to monitor his recovery in weekly prayer sessions. The recruitment of so many spiritual counselors to bear witness to Clinton's soul searching led politicos and pastors alike to wonder whether the White House in its darkest hour...
Patten, who promoted democracy in Hong Kong by setting up the first elected Legislative council and promoting human rights, has a well-established track record as an advocate for reform. His political leaning once prompted the Chinese government to label him "sinner of a thousand years...
...Clinton, confessed sinner, the choices are harder; for in him the public and private are utterly fused. It is one thing to engage in a private affair between consenting adults. It is another to have a 22-year-old intern performing oral sex on the President while he talks by phone to a Congressman about the fate of Americans stationed in Bosnia. It is one thing to turn the Lincoln Bedroom into a campaign ATM machine, another to turn the Oval Office into a hot-sheet motel. It is one thing for the President to invoke the cleansing powers...
...liar. For these men, to get caught red-handed in a fling easily manageable by any Joe capable of running a screw gun raised questions of Clinton's basic masculine competence. Indeed, if the Starr report could be believed, America's alpha male was something worse than a sinner or a lawbreaker. He was a fool, and a crybaby to boot...
...sprinkled with quotes from scripture, played well to the President's audience of religious leaders. "He couldn't be more contrite," said the Presbyterian Rev. Fred Davie. "I love this man," enthused Rabbi Edward Cohn of Los Angeles. And as if to complete his portrayal of a perfectly penitent sinner, Clinton promised to seek "pastoral support and help from others." What could be missing from the apology this time round? Only the timing. With House members voting to release the Starr report just hours after the prayer breakfast, it wasn't too little, but it may have come too late...