Bill Clinton on Lewinsky Affair: "I Cracked" (Algore: impeached serial *Perjurer was a drag)

CBS News ^ | 9/21/09 | Brian Montopoli

[Libloather]

Bill Clinton on Lewinsky Affair: "I Cracked"
Posted by Brian Montopoli
September 21, 2009 3:14 PM

(CBS)During a series of secret interviews in the White House with author and historian Taylor Branch, then-President Bill Clinton said his affair with Monika Lewinsky began because he "cracked" as a result of personal and political pressure.

"I cracked; I just cracked," Clinton said, according to Branch, USA Today reports. The former president reportedly blamed the death of his mother, combined with the Democrats' losses in the 1994 midterm elections and the Whitewater investigation, for putting him in a state of mind that left him open to the affair.

Branch has written a book based on the 79 interviews, the tapes of which he said Clinton kept in a sock drawer to keep them secret. Though the historian doesn't have access to those tapes, he would recap the interviews himself, on a fresh tape, following each visit he made to the White House.

The USA Today story includes two other interesting revelations from Branch's book. One involves Clinton's recounting of an argument with his vice president, Al Gore, shortly after Gore was not elected president in 2000. Clinton said he had felt he wasn't used enough in the campaign, and told Gore he could have brought Gore victory had he been sent to campaign in New Hampshire or Arkansas.

Gore responded that Clinton had been a "drag" on the ticket because of the affair, according to Branch's recollection of Mr. Clinton's comments. The pair then "exploded" at each other, blaming the other for the loss.

Perhaps the most startling story in the article, however, involves then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin. Clinton told Branch that Yeltsin had been staying at the Blair House, the White House guest residence, in 1995 when the Secret Service found Yeltsin standing alone on Pennsylvania Avenue, wearing only his underwear, trying to get a cab.

Yeltsin, slurring his words, told the Secret Service he wanted a pizza. The next night, Clinton reportedly told Branch, Yeltsin took back stairs to the basement of the Blair House, where a guard assumed he was an inebriated intruder. U.S. and Russian security forces soon arrived to assure the guard that the man in question was in fact the Russian president.

Branch said Mr. Clinton is "nervous" about his decision to write the book. The two men were roommates in Austin, Texas in the early 1970s, when they were running George McGovern's presidential campaign in Texas. Branch said the two men had been talking about the book but that he did not make the changes the former president requested.

[Libloather]

Bubba *Squirt comes clean - so to speak.

Don't forget - the impeached *Idiot dropped trou while deploying troops to Bosnia.

[Clintonfatigued]

A hangnail would leave him open to having an affair.

[indcons]

I’m surprised he didn’t blame Bush.

[RAO1125]

Apparently. He could’ve done much better. What is it with leftists that they have no taste in women?

[JohnLongIsland]

what about the zillion affairs before, during, and after?

[eeriegeno]

Did the slime also crack a few years earlier when he raped Juanita? It’s amazing what the media lets this pervert get away with!!!!!!

[latina4dubya]

what about the zillion affairs before, during, and after?

exactly...

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Clinton said he had felt he wasn't used enough in the campaign, and told Gore he could have brought Gore victory had he been sent to campaign in New Hampshire or Arkansas. Gore responded that Clinton had been a "drag" on the ticket because of the affair, according to Branch's recollection of Mr. Clinton's comments. The pair then "exploded" at each other, blaming the other for the loss.

Wasn't that on Saturday Night Live?

[synbad600]

To quote the great Jay Nordlinger's The Race Ace:

"Clinton exploited and intern for sex, arranged a cover-up, lied under oath, and obstructed justice."

Plain and simple.

[PGalt]

Bill Clinton is a liar. It would take Barack Obama several lifetimes to catch this POS in lies.

[synbad600]

and=an

[Yaelle]

“She had that cute thong and she wanted me... Ah could tell... And she brought that pizza... Ah trahd to resist her but then Ah thought of how my old slutty Mama was dead and it made me so sad Ah knew Ah just HAD to have her. And you know, it’s lahk eatin’ potato chips? How you do it once and you just want more? So Ah just had to have her again and again and of course all the phone sex... Mah poor Mama was always usin’ the phone... It brought back so many sad memories... So you see it wasn’t mah fault. Ah was grievin’ in mah own way...”

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I almost feel sorry for him, imagine sharing a bed with Hilary!

[RichInOC]

No, I thought it was Monica who bent over and cracked a smile.

[PGalt]

LOL your tagline (after comment).

[NordP]

Yo ...Bill - you might want to put some ice on that!

[NordP]

Yo ...Bill - you might want to put some ice on that!

[NordP]

Sorry about the double posting - evidently even my COMPUTER wanted to stick it to him too.

[TChad]

I thought that pizza was available 24/7 in the Clinton White House.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

‘Bubba’ came on to my BIL’s NIECE when she was in HIGH SCHOOL! He made a sexual remark when he was presenting an award to her after she commented (in her nervousness) how ‘he was much taller in person’. He’s DISGUSTING. She AND her mother told me this a few years ago.

[Libloather]

I almost feel sorry for him, imagine sharing a bed with Hilary!

Once per millennium? He must be jazzed.

[Libloather]

...even my COMPUTER wanted to stick it to him too.

You're getting WAY too close. (Got any pics?)

[fieldmarshaldj]

Y’know, he shoulda used that excuse publicly. He’d have garnered a lot of male Republican support.

[KosmicKitty]

"I cracked; I just cracked," Clinton said, according to Branch, USA Today reports. The former president reportedly blamed the death of his mother, combined with the Democrats' losses in the 1994 midterm elections and the Whitewater investigation, for putting him in a state of mind that left him open to the affair

Just what I look for in a leader of the free world!!!

Yes, President's are human, but if you take such a job, you have to live up to it. Playing 'Meet Mr. Winky' is NOT an option!!!

[Born Conservative]

The pair then "exploded" at each other, blaming the other for the loss.

That would be a fight I would love to see...

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Imagine if Gore had gone to Clinton in say, March 1998, and said “Either you resign, or I will.” Either Clinton would have resigned (fat chance), which would have had Gore running as an incumbent in 2000, or Gore would have resigned, and in 2000 he would have had already illustrated his underpinning as a leader, allowing him to campaign as a candidate in 2000 from the high ground (”I resigned rather than tolerate that abuse of office!”) But that would have required Gore to have exhibited leadership, which he didn’t. So in 2000, despite the fact that Clinton was a significant drag, Gore had no standing to complain.

[hometoroost]

I don’t know Obama’s pretty shifty himself. He gets called on things a lot less than slick did and he’s a little smoother (when scripted).

[Waryone]

No, actually, that would have required the Clintons to become different people. If Al Gore had nerve enough to walk out on Bill, Al and his entire family would have ended life taking a walk in Ft. Marcy Park.

[Libloather]

That would be a fight I would love to see...

Pay-per-view. First up - Hillary against Tipper...

[beaversmom]

Yeah, LOL. He’s been under a lot of pressure his whole life.

[beaversmom]

Clinton said he had felt he wasn't used enough in the campaign, and told Gore he could have brought Gore victory had he been sent to campaign in New Hampshire or Arkansas.

I wish Clinton had campaigned for him. Maybe it wouldn't have been such a squeaker.

[tanknetter]

because he "cracked" as a result of personal and political pressure

He "cracked" because of the political events in '95?!?

I shudder to think of what would have happened - to all of us - if he'd still been POTUS on 9/11/2001.

[beaversmom]

It would have taken a lot of BJ’s to settle his nerves.

[tanknetter]

Pay-per-view. First up - Hillary against Tipper...

With broken beer bottles? Yeah, I'd pay good money to see THAT.

[gunnut]

I am curious about those tapes. Why did he have to hide them? I wonder if they were ever subject to discovery or under subpoena? Probably not worth getting into since he is gone but it does make me wonder.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Only on two occasions did I ever see Gore show any balls, and one was when he demolished Perot in that NAFTA debate (the one where he called Rush Limbaugh a "distinguished citizen"), and prior to that (before he sold his soul to the dark side) during his '88 run for President when he caused Jesse Jackson to go apoplectic at his candidacy. Of course, had he gone up to Bubba and made such a demand, Bubba would've said, "Well, bye." What was so stupid on the Democrats part is that had they advised Gore to take a tough stance and gone along with impeachment, they'd have removed a cancer from the office, come off as looking principled and ethical, AND would've enabled a clean and relatively strong-looking President Gore to have retained the office in 2000 against Dubya. They shot themselves in the foot.

[DennisR]

“I cracked; I just cracked,” Clinton said, according to Branch, USA Today reports. The former president reportedly blamed the death of his mother, combined with the Democrats’ losses in the 1994 midterm elections and the Whitewater investigation, for putting him in a state of mind that left him open to the affair.

Liberals: Always blaming their problems on someone or something. What a pathetic (and unhappy) way to live.

[a fool in paradise]

During a series of secret interviews in the White House with author and historian Taylor Branch, then-President Bill Clinton said his affair with Monika Lewinsky began because he "cracked" as a result of personal and political pressure. "I cracked; I just cracked," Clinton said, according to Branch, USA Today reports. The former president reportedly blamed the death of his mother, combined with the Democrats' losses in the 1994 midterm elections and the Whitewater investigation, for putting him in a state of mind that left him open to the affair.

He was a sex addict who put his addiction ahead of this nation. JFK was too.

His handlers in the press denounced the "dirty politics" in the 1992 campaign when it came to light that he'd had affairs while in office. He was later famously exposed as a habitual workplace sexual harasser and possible rapist.

Too many women were victimized for him to blame the Republicans for every one of them.

[a fool in paradise]

I wonder if they were ever subject to discovery or under subpoena? Probably not worth getting into since he is gone but it does make me wonder.

Since the author plans to profit from the content of those tapes that may have been illegally supressed by the Clinton, I say it is fair game and bring on the investigation.

[a fool in paradise]

I shudder to think of what would have happened - to all of us - if he'd still been POTUS on 9/11/2001.

Same thing he did after the 1993 WTC bombing.

[a fool in paradise]

I shudder to think of what would have happened - to all of us - if he'd still been POTUS on 9/11/2001.

And the US embassy bombings.

[a fool in paradise]

I shudder to think of what would have happened - to all of us - if he'd still been POTUS on 9/11/2001.

And the bombing of the USS Cole...

[a fool in paradise]

Monica Lewinsky is now over 35! And to think it doesn’t seem that long ago that she was crawling around the Oval Office on her hands and knees.

[BunnySlippers]

LOL ...

[Know et al]

I’m surprised he didn’t blame Bush.

Or global warming. LOL

[Jimmy Valentine]

"It would take Barack Obama several lifetimes to catch this POS in lies."

He's trying his best though.

[Impy]

Bill Clinton likely had sex with a woman who is not named Hilary 5 minutes before this interview and a different one 5 minutes after. I don’t know where he is right now but I’d bet you a nickel he’s not wearing any pants.

LOL @ drunk Boris Yeltsin.

[Tribune7]

She really blew it for him.

[PGalt]

Good point; yes he is.