Some people are starting to detect a pattern here. The Clinton Kool-Aid drinkers obstinately refuse to consider more than one lie at a time, insisting that any attempt to draw a line from Clinton's lie No. 1 through lie No. 2 and all the way to lie No. 1,023,543 is a fool's errand. People who can remember what happened yesterday ("Clinton-haters") are treated like lunatics who see patterns in wheat fields.
As for whether the sanction of disbarment is "unprecedented," it is indubitably true that it is difficult to come up with an analogous precedent to Bill Clinton. With the help of DNA evidence, tapes and a score of witnesses, the man was caught lying under oath and encouraging others to lie under oath (those "others" he was so eager to protect, no doubt).
Moreover, Clinton is not an obscure lawyer in Arkansas, but president of the United States. If nothing else, committing crimes while president does have the effect of calling attention to oneself.
The state bar considering President Nixon's disbarment certainly thought that being president made a difference. Like Clinton, Nixon had not been indicted for any crime; unlike Clinton, Nixon could not have been charged with perjury since he had not given any sworn statements throughout the Watergate investigation. He merely stood accused of obstruction of justice, a debatable charge that was not supported by, say, DNA evidence.
Still, the New York Bar was in such a frenzy of indignation about Nixon that it refused his tendered resignation, so that he could be disbarred.
The court opinion disbarring Nixon noted that obstruction of justice is "a most serious offense," an offense that was "rendered even more grievous" because Nixon was president -- "the holder of the highest public office of this country and in a position of public trust."
Foreshadowing another Clinton argument, the court explicitly acknowledged that Nixon was not acting in his capacity as a lawyer during his alleged offenses, but said the power to discipline attorneys extends to nonprofessional conduct that "reflects adversely upon the legal profession and is not in accordance with the high standards imposed upon members of the bar."
Clinton can't even meet the high standards imposed on Boy Scouts. Though the U.S. president is honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America, after receiving complaints from kazillions of parents, the Boy Scouts have finally removed Clinton's signature from the certificate presented to Eagle Scouts. Maybe that's why it means something different to be called a "Boy Scout" than to be called a "lawyer."