Noemie Emery: Why Bill Clinton is no JFK

Former President Bill Clinton feels stung by reports that some in his party now wish he’d resigned in 1998 over the intern unpleasantness. He is supposedly telling people in private that, by those same standards, former Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson would have been forced leave office, too.

This misses the point by quite a bit. Johnson and Kennedy broke the sixth commandment many times over, but not the laws of their country. They didn’t lie under oath, summon employees to their rooms and ask them to “kiss it,” or put public servants to work defaming their critics.