Why do democrats think Clinton was impeached for sex when he was impeached for perjury?
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And that's where Bubba belongs.  As far as democrats thinking he was impeached for sex?  The operative word in that last sentence was 'thinking', or in this case, the lack of.\nLet me quote Winston Churchill when asked his opinion between liberals and conservatives.  This may not be word for word, and I quote:  "If you're twenty years old and not a liberal, you have no heart.  If you're forty years old and not a conservative, you have no brain."
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It is because the Republicans are the Majority in the Senate, so they are good at manipulation, especially with elections coming up.\nBut the Democrats have also shown their weaknesses.\nFor Politicians like Bush to lie is easy. Arrogance is a part of their nature too.\nThe momentum is building up.\nLet us wait and see...majority of Americans are fed up with him and would certainly press for him to be impeached.\nBravo!
531103
He blatantly and deliberately lied to Congress and the American public. That is enough to call him a bad president, don't you think? The Lewinsky scandal was more than a little ridiculous, I think, an affair is highly personal and we didn't need to know about it. But that he would look us in the eye and deny it, under a sacred oath, speaks far more of his character than actually dallying with an intern. I still feel he ought to have been impeached for that lie. He'd have done better to admit to it and then tell us his sexual exploits were none of our damn business.
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i'm not surprised whatsoever. \n\nI mean take a look at just a little bit of history: \n\n* Republican Nixon presidency - Watergate corruption; ended with proof\n\n* Democrat Carter presidency - no corruption\n\n* Republican Reagan/Bush presidencies - Iran Contra and World Bank corruption; ended with proof\n\n*Democrat Clinton presidency - no corruption; never proved any of the things they accused him of - he actually was impeached for stating he didnt have sexual relations with a woman who gave him a bj because he (like a lot of men) didn't believe a bj was sex. Ironically he was impeached for this when he was answering an irrelevant question on the stand for a DIFFERENT accusation. Was a complete setup. And they never found any proof for any of those charges.\n\n* Republican Bush Jr presidency - so far I think it's being called culture of corruption because its his entire administration involved. \n\nWhat I am surprised at is that Rove is going to get away with it.
51924
Read the Constitution.  The House of Representatives can impeach the President, which is to bring charges, or same as a criminal inditement.  The Senate is where the President is tried, and if convicted, removed from office.\n\nYou would think Clinton's impeachment would be fresh in your mind???
1117858
yeah go toot that horn somewhere else. Do you not know all the lies that Bush told to send our young men to war? What I say is why don't they stay out of peoples bedrooms and take care of the boardroom. Who gives a shit if Clinton got a little on the side and lied. do you know a man who has cheated who admitted it from the start? Not! Maybe if Bush would get a little on the side his mind wouldn't be so full of shit he might be able to speak in complete intelligible sentences. I would much rather have a lie about sex than a lie about lives.
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The Republicans are more supportive of their colleagues IF they are clean. They are quick to scorn their colleagues if their colleagues are not clean. THE DEMOCRATS, ON THE OTHER HAND, AWARD THEIR EXPOSED FILTHY COLLEAGUES AS IN THESE SITUATIONS:::::::::::::In 1990, PPelosi voted three times to make a convicted page sexual predator,\n former Congressman Gerry Studds (D-Mass.), chair of a congressional committee. \nelosi voted against censuring Barney Frank for having his live-in boyfriend \nrun a prostitution ring from Frank's apartment. \nPelosi raised no objections when Clinton pardoned Democrat Congressman Mel Reynolds (Ill.) \nwho had been convicted of felonies for having had sex with a 16-year-old campaign worker. \nThe historic Nancy Pelosi is an authentic representative of San Francisco liberal values and hardly\n has the record to lecture anyone on cleaning up the Congress.
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Impeachment and controversies\n\n    Main article: Impeachment of Bill Clinton\n\nIn 1999, Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives. He was acquitted by the Senate. The perjury charge arose from Clinton's testimony about his relationship to Monica Lewinsky during a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former Arkansas-state employee Paula Jones. The obstruction charge was based on his actions during the subsequent investigation of that testimony. On February 12, the Senate concluded a 21-day trial with the vote on both counts falling short of the Constitutional requirement of a two-thirds majority to convict and remove an office holder. The final vote was generally along party lines, with all of the votes to convict being cast by Republicans. On the perjury charge 55 senators voted to acquit, including 10 Republicans, and 45 voted to convict; on the obstruction charge the Senate voted 50-50. [18] Clinton, like the only other president to be impeached, Andrew Johnson, served the remainder of his term.\n\nThe day before leaving office, Clinton agreed to a five-year suspension of his Arkansas law license as part of an agreement with the independent counsel to end the investigation. Based on this suspension, Clinton was also automatically suspended from the United States Supreme Court bar, from which he chose to resign. [17][18] Clinton's resignation was mostly symbolic, as he had never practiced before the Supreme Court and was not expected to in the future. Clinton also was assessed a $90,000 fine by federal judge Susan Webber Wright for contempt of court. The Paula Jones lawsuit was settled out of court for $850,000.\n\nIn addition to impeachment and the Whitewater scandal, the Clinton White House was the subject of many other controversies.\n\nThe White House travel office controversy involved allegations of impropriety in the firing of civil service staffers. The White House personnel file controversy involved improper access by security officials to FBI files on White House personnel, without first asking for the individuals' permission. The Bill Clinton pardons controversy involved a grant of clemency to FALN bombers in 1999 and pardons to his brother Roger, tax-evading billionaire Marc Rich and others in 2001 \n\nThe "Chinagate" controversy involved allegations of improper campaign contributions to President Clinton's legal defense fund and the Democratic National Committee, by individuals such as John Huang, James Riady, and Maria Hsia, et al. Allegedly, the ultimate source of this money was the Chinese government. Seventeen donors and fund-raisers were convicted of felonies due to the affair.\n\nEarly in his first-term, a largely discredited documentary, the Clinton Chronicles, implicated Bill Clinton in a large number of deaths of his acquaintences. This also became known as the "Clinton Body Count" and was the subject of a request for Congressional hearings in 1994. As many as 60 people were on this list of "suspicious deaths" including Jim McDougal, Vince Foster and Ron Brown.\n\nIn March, 1998 Kathleen Willey, a White House aide, alleged that Clinton had sexually assaulted her. Also in 1998, Juanita Broaddrick alleged that Clinton had raped her in 1978. No charges were filed in either case.\n\nSecretary of Agriculture Mike Espy was acquitted on each of 30 charges of illegally accepting gifts such as sports tickets, lodging, and transportation from companies regulated by his department in exchange for favors. [19] HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros was indicted on 18 counts of conspiracy, giving false statements and obstruction of Justice. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of lying to the FBI about the amount of money he gave his mistress, political fundraiser Linda Medlar. Medlar plead guilty to 28 counts related to the investigation. Both Medlar and Cisneros were pardoned by Clinton.\n\nOn Clinton's last day in offic
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People who don't think president jr. can be impeached have a short memory.\ntricky dick nixon resigned in face of impeachment because of a lie.\nBill was impeached by the house because of a lie.\nAnd jr. lied about why he decalred war of Iraq.\nGet the picture?
889911
They have not worked with the Democratic Party since they took over in 1994. Think how they shut the government down twice , the whole whitewater investigation that led to an attempt to impeach President Clinton. It goes on and on of how they stuck to their agenda with no regard to the Democrats. Now that the Democrats are in power they are going all mansy pansy they should immediately launch investigations into this most corrupt of administration's doings for the last six years.
710854
Let's see...why should Bush be impeached? He lied in office...just like Clinton just about different things. He also swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and had his rubber stamp Republican congress pass laws that basically ignore the law of the land. Spin it anyway you want...Bush should be impeached for his conduct as president...which has been anything but "Presidential".
62717
Good question indeed. If it was up to me, Clinton wouldn't have been impeached.
562688
Wow, are you late to the game. What have you done in your past? Oh? You're not perfect? I seem to remember ex-President Clinton committing a crime WHILE IN OFFICE. Yes, perjury is a crime, no matter what the topic of the investigation. Oh, and not to mention all the rapes and sexual assaults he committed that got swept under the rug.\n\n\nYour hate for Bush blinds your judgment, fool.
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Yes, Bill Clinton is only one of 2 American Presidents that were impeached.  However to be impeached is simular to being indited for a crime.  The way that it works is that for the President a vote after hearing testimony as to whether or not a crime has been committed is taken by the House of Representatives.  That is impeached it does not mean that he is guilty it just means that there is enough evidence to have a trial.  The impeachment trial is performed in the Senate where it takes a 2/3 majority to convict.  In the impeachment of Andrew Johnson he retained office by one vote.  In the case of Bill Clinton it was decided that the country had better things to do than to have a trial, he was censured by the Senate after he admitted to the charges and America went on with it's business.  The only other President that came close was Richard M. Nixon who resigned the office, however even after he resigned the House of Representatives were still holding hearings of impeaching him.  About 30 days after he left office ,then President Gerald R. Ford pardoned him for any and all crimes that he may have committed.  The evidence in this case leaves little question as to whether or not he would have been impeached and very probably would have been found guilty by the Senate, however in favor of going on with the nations business Ford pardoned Nixon and freed up both houses of congress to do the work for which we elect them to do.
855759
Yes, he lied about the reasons to go into war which has caused the deaths of people he is sworn to protect. If Clinton could be impeached for lying about his private sex life, then Bush can be impeached for some far more sinister.
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He was impeached, but he wasn't convicted.  Impeached is like indicted.  It doesn't mean you have been found guilty.
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Because Clinton is the only president in anyone's memory who was ever impeached.  Andrew Jackson was, but that was back in the 1860's, so no one is alive to remember it.  \n\nThey go after Clinton because he is the easiest Democrat to go after.  Jimmy Carter was too much of a peaceful diplomat, its hard to go after someone who is peaceful.  But an adulterer with a fetish for the bow wows, now that is easy to go after; so they go after him.