Craig is making the argument today that he didn't do anything wrong in this situation, but I'd venture to say that playing footsie under the stall is generally frowned upon in most public men's rooms. The whole kabuki dance is horribly fascinating in its clandestine, anonymous desperation. Foot-tapping and shoe-nuzzling and understall hand-waving. Come on, he's guilty of being seriously creepy, if nothing else.
Craig is also getting lit up for his hypocrisy and his ridiculous excuses. Josh Marshall has a bit more to say on the matter:
I'm going to assume for the sake of the discussion that the gestures Craig is described as making are ones easily recognizable as soliciting sex. The rubbed shoe (see police report) seems unambiguous to me. With that assumption, it's still clear that the whole thing didn't get far enough for Craig to 'do' anything lewd. But I'm not sure that matters since obviously you can get hauled off to jail for agreeing to purchase sex from a prostitute even before things get freaky.
And here are two clips, one of Craig calling Bill Clinton a "nasty boy" back in 1998, and the other of him today, assuring us -- several times-- that he's NOT GAY.
Nice touch opening his statement with, "Thank you all for coming out today..."
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