SEAN GIVES VIEWS ON PRESIDENT CLINTON-LEWINSKY SCANDAL

ROLLING STONE, NOVEMBER 12, 1998


(Rolling Stone's front page story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's sex scandal featured short essays by current musicians. These "Voices From the Culture" included Sean's opinions, as follows.)

"It's kind of fucked up that he cheated on his wife so many times. But that doesn't surprise me at all. I think most politicians, especially the powerful ones, are really macho pigs. It doesn't surprise me that he takes advantage of his position. What does surprise me is how he denied it when it was obviously true. The whole question now is whether he lied under oath - which he obviously did.

I think he should have resigned a while ago. That would have been the honorable thing to do. What really upsets me is that he bombed Sudan, not that he got a blow job or inserted a cigar in her vagina. To me, the point is like Wag the Dog - he bombed a starving nation in the name of some anti-terrorist campaign, when it's really a campaign to distract from his problems.

I was totally fascinated to see the (video) testimony. We should be honest - we're all intrigued, because it's about sex. I mean, if Whitewater was even half as interesting...We get to hear about the president getting a blow job while he's on the phone with a congressman. But it's sad that America has gotten to this state. In no other country would the details of a politician's adultery be public information and broadcast internationally. It's an incredible moment in American history that a president is on TV talking about blow jobs. I couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

I fear there will be a backlash and we'll have a conservative Republican president next time. Which is really bad in many ways. But there is a postitive side: When you have a tyrannical president, people actually unite and try and change what's wrong."


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