Reply #6: Lincoln's the President who began the expansion of Federal power...

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Which, in some ways, is a good thing but, in others, isn't quite so much. And, yeah, he did make some flagrantly Unconstitutional moves. However, one might argue, the union was in the greatest peril then than it had ever been and he might well have seen it as a necessity to preserve it. Hard to say.

Clinton DID lie to Congress. No way around that. Not a huge crime in my book in the first place, because I'm sure they all lie to one another on a regular basis, but if the idea is "rule of law" I suppose the argument he proposes has some merit. Rather meaningless in the end, since all of Bush's lies haven't ever been presented as a case for impeachment by anyone with any influence.