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Re: Clinton's fake apologies (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sat Sep 19 17:27:44 1998

Date: 19 Sep 1998 21:21:26 -0000
From: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>


Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> nobody@remailer.ch wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Clinton's fake apologies (fwd)
> 
> > Presumably he should lie to protect the state.
> 
> Then don't take the oath:
> 
> To tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
> 
...

> > So lieing per se isn't the problem.
> 
> No, it's the fact that he took an oath to tell the truth and didn't.
> 
> > Murky water
> > for impeachment, methinks.
> 
> Then you don't think very well.
> 

What? To tell a lie is one thing, but if you preface it with "I'm telling the truth",
then that is really really bad? I still think you're drawing a very fine line.

I'm honoured to draw an ad hominem before revealing that I'm on AOL.

-- an anonymous aol32 user. 


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