Should lying under oath about a personal affair be an Impeachable offense?

Question

UNDER OATH

Should the WIFE of anyone caught lying under oath and who thinks there is NOTHING WRONG WITH IT be elected the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and our Commander-in-Chief?

Answer 1

Yes. He lied UNDER OATH. Absolutely we shouldn't have Hillary in office. It really scares me, because if she thinks there is nothing wrong with what Bill did, lying under oath, then can you imagine how she'd run the country? We'd have to always be living in fear...

Answer 2

There is something deeply wrong with the Chief Executive over all law enforcement laying under oath. I can understand his reasons for doing so, but I cannot understand those that defend the lying.

Is it an impeachable offense? Well, the House decided it was. The Senate decided not to convict him. Jury nullication is time honored.

I would expect every presidential hopeful would come out and state, "Lying under oath is a serious offense that our system of justice cannot pass off as casual 'everyone does it' routine excuse."

I'm amazed by the current Senators drilling Generals and adminstrative officials for not quite stating the exact same thing twice, yet had no issue with bald face lies in courts. These Senate and House committees also call on witnesses to swear to tell the truth. Do they really not care if the person lies under oath? Or is it only somethings we can lie about? Or some people we can lie to?

A nation of laws, not a nation of men, is what we believe in. All equal under the same laws. Seems some are more equal than others.

Answer 3

Lying under oath (perjury) is a felony, so it rises to the level of " Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors" as required by the Constitution, Article II, Section 4.

Clinton was impeached (similar to a show-cause hearing) but never convicted. Let me elaborate - Bill Clinton was found NOT GUILTY of perjury and obstruction of justice by the Senate. If someone is found NOT GUILTY, it means they are considered INNOCENT in the eyes of the law.

That said, the rest of your "argument" has no basis.

Answer 4

Why don't you come right out and use the names of the people you're criticizing? Hillary has never said there is nothing wrong with lying under oath. Bill Clinton was impeached by the House (But not by the Senate) so it is an impeachable offense now. What is it you're trying to be so cute about, that the voters of Hillary's state should attempt to impeach her. News for you, they just re-elected her for a second term as their senator last year.

Answer 5

Yes.

I do not see why not, it is not their fault that their spouse lied.

That said, I really do not want to see Hillary elected.

Demophytes are behaving exactly the same way about Iraq today as they did about the Civil War, well, except for the whole running through the streets of New York city lynching blacks on street lights. They have not done that.....yet.

I expect any Demophyte who comes to office after President Bush to behave similarly to the way the Demophyte Andrew Johnson did.

PS:

The Traditional Demophytes (a pathological growth on society, i.e. democrats) of New York city who; worked to get the state of New York to side with the Confederacy in the Civil War, ran through the streets of New York city lynching blacks during the civil war and who today use exactly the same rhetoric against Iraq and President Bush that they used against the Civil War and President Lincoln elected Hillary Clinton, the proud wife of a former Governor of one of those great slave holding states of the Confederacy, for a second term as Senator of their fair city.

Something to be proud of!

PPS: A Demophyte wants to create another "House Un-American Activities Committee, just like they did in the 1930's! Hey, then they can run it for forty years, turn it into another Judiciary Committee and blame a Republican for it all over again! Demophytes love nothing more than repeating history! Martin Dies and the KKK would love you!

Answer 6

Personally I think lying under oath is a crime no matter who does it or for what reason -- that includes Alberto Gonzales and Scooter Libby -- and I do believe they both lied under oath.

What is your source for your assertion that "the WIFE ,,, thinks there is NOTHING WRONG WITH IT"? My guess is that "the WIFE" probably extracted quite a payment from the former "PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and our Commander-in-Chief" that she is married to.

I'd also be interested to know what your opinion of Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Newt Gingrich is since they are all admitted adulterers or do you think adultery is okay when its admitted to? What about their morals? Should any of them be elected president? What about the morals of the women who committed adultery with them? Should we elect a man to be president if his wife committed adultery?

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0607.benen.html

Come to think of it, maybe we can set up a Fornication and Adultery Tribunal along the lines of the Bush administration's military tribunal. All of these people could be rounded up, arrested and held in prison without counsel and without trials for an indefinite period of time or maybe they could be subjected to rendition and shipped off to countries where women are stoned for fornication and adultery and men are castrated.

Wow, I think you're on to something.

Answer 7

I assume the US Attorney General could not find a law that dealt with the culpability of a wife when her husband lies. THE LAW is: She cannot be compelled to testify. I happen to believe a" personal affair" is just that:Personal. I don't believe it is possible to be elected as President and not lie.

Answer 8

Lying under oath is just plain 'Bad Form'.

Answer 9

Notice how your question has been turned into an attack on Bush and the war? The libs can't argue the question, so they turn it around on you. No, she should not be elected, for many, many reasons.

Answer 10

no to your first question and yes to your second one.

Bill Clinton's affair did not cost the american public anything until the republicans decided to spend all our tax dollars on an unnecessary impeachment trial. and morals my rosy red backside. where are the morals behind upper class americans, the majority of which are republicans, making money off of a pointless war while they send middle and lower class men and women to fight and die in this war.
and how about this. Ol' W. said he was going to get bin Laden. evidently there was not enough money to be made there.