Did Bill Clinton Have the RIGHT to lie about his affair with Monika Lewinsky?
Regarding the president's privacy, it is any of the American public's business what the sexual behaviors of our presidents are? Does Bill have the right to privacy concerning his personal affairs? Or should the public pry and find out his deepest secrets?
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He never lied under oath because adultery is not a prosecutable offense. He had all the right to lie, who you have sex with is nobody else's business, especially not the general public's. To assert that he broke the law is purely out of political bias and not legal expertise.
You have a right to do anything, but you must bear the consequences. He wasn't impeached for the scandal, but for lying UNDER OATH.
The legal right? The moral right?
He had no legal right to lie under oath. That said, I don't think the Republicans at the time had the ethical right to convene a special committee just to hunt down the truth about where the president was putting his, er, ethics, either. But since they legally managed to do that, we come back to Clinton having been under oath.
Notice how the current administration doesn't want ANY of its people to testify for ANYTHING under oath, even to the point of contempt of Congress.
NOBODY came out of this smelling good.
No, it is a criminal act to lie UNDER OATH!!..Get that through your thick skull.
He had the right until he lied under oath. Once he did that, he went from someone lying to cover up an embarrassing affair, to a criminal. It is a crime to lie under oath, and Clinton did. Until he swore an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, he could lie. After that, he became a criminal.
ask any man under oath that cares about his marriage and has an affair and see if he will not lie under oath
Fucc yea he had the right...DAMN people let the man get his groove on and stop C0ck block'in LOLZ thats one of the best presidents we had foo..
No.
What happens in the Oval Office is the business of ALL the American people. And the honesty and integrity of ANY of our elected officials is the business of ALL the American people.
If Billy the Schlickmeister wanted to cheat on his wife and pork anything that could fog a mirror in private, he shouldn't have taken a PUBLIC OFFICE.
Impeached and disbarred. A complete disgrace and the worst President there ever was or will be.
Personally, I don't think it's any of our business, but it's big money for the media, so they drag out everybody's personal lives and splay it all out for us to pick over like vultures. The media ruines peoples' entire lives.
As to the fact that he lied, well, our business or not, he was completely guilty for lying. Being famous doesn't make you immune from the law, and he broke it. He actually went on television (big mistake) and lied to the entire country. I took it really personally and still have trouble trusting him to this day.
no one has a right to lie, lieing is wrong always.
Very good question.
I feel he has the right to privacy or he should have. Just as any man or woman should have. However, being one of the most powerful leaders in the world he does owe it to his people and his Country to be honest. If he did not or could not be honest he should have declined to answer.
But I don't think it was his call. He PR people told him what to do, and when it all blew up in his face he took the fall and they were nowhere to be found (well fired probably).
I like the man personally. I have a lot of respect for what he is trying to do now. And I wish he hadn't had to go down the way he did.
Not while under oath in court. Clinton was a total disgrace for the American people.
Not sure which President is worse, him or Jimmy Carter.
I don't know about it being a right, but it shouldn't surprise anyone that any married man would lie in order to conceal an extramarital affair.
Yes, as long as he doesn't do it under oath. I don't care what his excuse was - if the President of the United States doesn't respect his oath to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, why should anyone else?
No, He broke the law.
I am a huge Clinton supporter, but no, he shouldn't have done it and he definitely shouldn't have lied about it under oath. But who's business was it anyways, there has been more than one president to have an affair, and now there are more than 10 people on GW's team that have had them. while we are on this, do you think GW is getting head from Condi?? who really cares, its between him and Laura, although, wouldn't it be kinda funny??
He has/had the right to privacy just like any other citizen. But....to carry on like that in the Oval Office is/was out of line.
Yes -- he did. It was none of our business, it did not have anything to do with national security or the daily running of the country.
Their isn't much anyone would find out about Bill Clinton the Republican had on Nationwide TV asking all the Questions that was personal even about all his sex life I don't know where you were hiding. If I had of been Bill Clinton I would have taken Presidential Executive Power's , just like Bush and Cheney are always taking. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Embarrassed him over something that strictly his own personal business and his family . That is his strictly his business no one way else should really care, they don't seem to care about Bush and Cheney's corruption , lies and all this breaking Constitutions, so people need to leave Bill Clinton alone. You better worrying about the corrupt moron President and Vice President your glowing over now.
You are through finding out Bill Clinton deepest secrets find out about the Al Capone and nit wit's deepest secrets , leave bill Clinton alone, you got all your gonna get , so forget about it. That is in the past , start looking at the future., you got ALL your gonna get.
not saying he was right to lie, but not first president to have affairs. Think it was personal business.
If Clinton's wife & daughter could read people at all, they both knew he was a womanizer. With their presumed ability there was no reason to save himself from them discovering the fact that another woman existed. The only 2 reasons for his perjury were then to attempt to save his reputation with the public &/or save him dollars in the Paula Jones case.
He cost the taxpayer more dollars than Paula Jones would have received in any law suit. I'm sure he cost lives by his actions & forced inactions just because he wanted to play with a cigar.
Truthfully the group that got the BIGGEST BLACK EYE form the whole affair was the National Organisation for Women. Their silence on the scandle spoke volumes. If a CEO or a conservative had done the same thing N.O.W. would have them in court so fast.
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