September 13, 1998

Big Job; Small Man

Assuming for a moment that sex really doesn't matter, and what the President does in private is his own business, there are still some disturbing statement in this report. For example:

During this visit, according to Ms. Lewinsky, the President told her that he liked her smile and her energy. He also said: "I'm usually around on weekends, no one else is around, and you can come and see me."

Hello? The President of the United States, Leader of the Free World, Our Bridge to the Future just hangs around the White House on the weekends with nothing to do? What do we pay this guy for?

But let's accept the fact that the Commander-in-Chief sits around the White House on the weekends flipping through cable channels and scarfing down Cheetos waiting for someone to drop by. At least it must be the case that he put up a great deal of resistance to his carnal urges. But we read that the first day they had a conversation:

She told him that she had a crush on him. He laughed, then asked if she would like to see his private office.

Whoa! That was fast. You almost couldn't see his integrity there, it dropped away so quickly. OK, so the Chief Executive is a quick-moving womanizer. Well at least it must be the case that he treats his mistresses with class. He is, after all, the Most Powerful Man in the World. But wait:

According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President telephoned her at approximately 2:00 to 2:30 a.m. on Friday, October 10. They spent much of the hour-and-a-half call arguing. "[H]e got so mad at me, he must have been purple," she later recalled. According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President said: "If I had known what kind of person you really were, I wouldn't have gotten involved with you."

In fact, much of the last year of their relationship (oh sorry, I mean "her relationship with him" - he, of course, had no relationship with her) was spent arguing. So while the world economy comes unglued the President of the Untied States is making late-night phone calls to argue with his woman.

So now the First Adulterer has officially "asked our forgiveness" and claims he has "repented." But in the same breath he says he'll make every legal argument in his defense. You can't tell God and America that you were wrong and you've repented while telling Congress that you were framed and didn't do anything wrong, and expect anyone with the intelligence of a squirrel to believe you've truly "repented." The only way the First Perjurer can prove that he understands the seriousness of his actions would be to resign. If he does that, we should accept his apology and forgive him.