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		| Originally posted by Penske_Account Just to be clear, the lack of response was not because he was distracted by any of the fall out from the exercise of poor judgment in other areas of his work life.
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 So he says.  But the bottom line is it's silly to deflect blame onto the Rs because they distracted him from his job by impeaching him.  Clinton is the one who gave them the excuse to impeach.  
Was he such a politial neophyte that he believed that if he lied under oath the Rs wouldn't want to crucify him for it?  The blame rests with him.
I also saw something suggesting he didn't want to appear as if he was blatantly helping Gore by starting a military operation in the fall of 2000.