--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I admire Clinton for many reasons, and his lawyerly language maneuvers > is one of them. He found a loop hole in the simple yes or no > question, "did you smoke pot?" And it was too clever for his own > good. It doesn't matter if he inhaled or not, it was his attempt at a > slippery save that is being ridiculed. No one asked him what THC > level reached his bloodstream. It was Bill being Bill, and true or > not, it spoke volumes about how he operated as well as the limits of > his brilliance, which is considerable. I think that is why it is > still a popular reference today, because of his slippery use of > language, not because he may have been lying. Like his parsing of the > use of the word "is". It reveals the limits of cleverness. > > When Arsinio Hall asked him about how he would answer the question if > he could do it again he said, I would just say "Yes I smoked pot". > > The original quote: > > "When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, > and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale and never tried it again." –Bill > Clinton > > Out of the country so not breaking any US laws, (brilliant), > "experimented a time or two" this language makes the not inhaling a > bit suspect, "I didn't inhale", overplays his hand, slick Willy being > too slick, "never tried it again", again emphasizing that no US laws > were broken. That is excellent. > > He was breaking new ground being more honest in a hypocritical culture > where someone can get penalized for smoking weed in their youth. Bush > tried to paint his drug use as "youthful indiscretions". He dodged a > bullet by not getting specific. Obama is going to push this envelop > further, and it may cost him the race. He had better back off the > details cuz people are going to ask him stuff like, did you ever buy > coke with others or for others or share it... > > After two terms of the misunderestimated man, I miss old Bill. A bit > too smart for his own good sometimes, but a hellava lot smarter than me!
Here's a photo of another celebrity politician [before he was a politician] doing what I did along with most of my peers decades ago. http://www.reason.com/UserFiles/schwarzenegger_smoking_joint.jpg
