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moreover, Clinton's statement was an outright lie, not an evasion. And it didn't seem to hurt his approval ratings. The analogy makes no sense.
by contextfree 16y ago
moreover, Clinton's statement was an outright lie, not an evasion. And it didn't seem to hurt his approval ratings. The analogy makes no sense.
- pg 16y agoApparently his justification was that he didn't consider what happened to have been "sexual relations," because he hadn't been what one might call an active participant. The far extreme of evasion, certainly, but the narrowness of his definition of "sexual relationships" seems in the same ballpark as the narrowness of Microsoft's definition of "copy."
- contextfree 16y agoI think Clinton's actions were well within the common-language definition of "sexual relations". I don't think the Google "experiments" showed anything about Bing's behavior that falls within the common-language definition of "copy".
- MaysonL 16y agoAlso, Clinton is of a generation that grew up with the understanding that gentlemen don't "kiss and tell".
- rbanffy 16y ago> Clinton's statement was an outright lie He employed a very narrow definition of "sexual relations" that was made possible by the ambiguity of what a sexual relationship actually is.
- lanstein 16y agoIt depends on what your definition of is, is.