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by woggy on November 11th, 2009
He got impeached for lying under oath in a deposition hearing.
by Temporary Name on November 12th, 2009
From Wiki: `Bill Clinton, President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, and acquitted by the Senate on February 12, 1999. The charges, perjury, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power, arose from the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the Paula Jones lawsuit. The trial proceedings were largely partisan, with no Democratic Senators voting for conviction and only five Democratic Representatives voting to impeach. In all, 55 senators voted not guilty, and 45 voted guilty on the perjury charge. The Senate also acquitted on the charge of obstruction, with 50 votes cast as not guilty, and 50 votes as guilty.[1] It was only the second impeachment of a President in American history, following the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868.´
by Spirit of the Nomad on November 11th, 2009
He was actually acquitted.
by Razzle-Fratchit on November 18th, 2009
He committed Perjury, suborned Perjury, obstructed justice, and abused the power of his office.
Though the Democrats and a handful of faux-Republicans in the Senate wrongly refused to convict him and remove him from office, the entire Supreme Court boycotted his subsequent State of The Union Address, and the ultra-Liberal American Bar Association disbarred him.
by Rollie on November 11th, 2009
He lied under oath.
by Anonymous on November 11th, 2009
He was a Democrat. The House, which was majority Republican, voted for it. Everything else is details.
by Stranger in a Strange Land on November 12th, 2009
For the same reason Andrew Johnson was impeached 130 years earlier. Pure power politics having nothing to do with actual wrongdoing. +2
by Factotum on November 12th, 2009
His political enemies engineered a lose/lose situation in which he could either humiliate his wife in front of the country or lie.
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Know what? I'm a Republican but I support anyone who lies under oath in such a circumstance. The shame here is on the Republican 'pro-marriage' side.
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