Clinton has a lot more to overcome than a blowjob. He was a known and proven philanderer long before Lewinsky and was even caught on tape advising one of his paramours to deny they had an affair. He told her plain and clear that no one but he and she knew it for certain, and if he didn’t admit it and she didn’t admit it, no one could prove anything.
I think this is a very good illustration of his overall character. Like many lawyers, he and Hilary both seem to hold to the philosophy that if there’s any loophole that will allow shenanegans they should be exploited. If something isn’t specifically prohibited by law then by all means take advantage of it. And if you’re doing something illegal or immoral and someone tries to catch you at it, lie, obfuscate, misdirect, anything to try to weasel out of it. And most of all, deny, deny, deny, even to the point of ridiculousness: “I didn’t lie! She had sex with me, I didn’t have sex with her!” Can you imagine anyone else, even though he/she may be a lawyer, splitting hairs in this way in a legal proceeding and being allowed to get away with it? But of course he was, because after all he was the president.
This type of behavior, plus his spending his last night in office pardoning one criminal after another, including one on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list, speaks much more eloquently to the character of the man than anything else. His thinking was to wait till it’s too late for anyone to do anything about it, and until it’s too late to do his presidency any harm, and then he pulls this cheap shenanegan that I can’t imagine any other president in history doing, because he has to repay political and/or financial favors and there’s no law prohibiting him from doing it.
What a cheap, sleazy, underhanded creep.