President doth protest too much

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By MARIANNE MEANS
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST

WASHINGTON -- Political leaders, by their very nature, try to keep their pronouncements ambiguous, in order to appeal to as many voters as possible. So when a president is obliged to issue a flat-out, breathtaking denial, you know it is a measure of how dangerous he believes a problem has become.

President Bush did it last week. "I have never ordered torture. I will never order torture," he said.

It was a denial that no president should ever have to make. Voters should be able to take it for granted that in America such presidential flaws do not even exist.

Of course that is dreamland. Richard Nixon's immortal "I am not a crook" and Bill Clinton's similarly memorable "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" are matters of historical record. Both statements proved to be premeditated lies, although the full duplicity was murky at the time.

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[izzie]

1. Yes, I feel the same. Bush also nags

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[Demeter]

2. So, Can We Impeach Bush Now?

Seeing as Nixon resigned first, and Bill was found innocent of high crimes and misdemeanors?