One of the several questions that needs an answer is whether your vote on conviction lessens or enlarges that cynicism. Nothing begets cynicism like the double standard - one rule for the popular and the powerful and another for the rest of us. One of the most interesting things in this trial was the testimony of the president's good friend, the former Senator from Arkansas. He did his persuasive best to maintain the confusion that this is all about sex. You will find charges of perjury and obstruction of justice which are public acts and federal crimes, especially when committed by the one person duty bound to faithfully execute the laws.
Infidelity is private and non-criminal.
Perjury and obstruction are public and criminal. The deliberate focus on what is not an issue here is the defense lawyer's tactic and nothing more. This entire saga has been a theater of distraction and misdirection. Time on the defense tactics when the law and facts get in the way. One phrase you have not heard the defense pronounce is the ''sanctity of the oath,'' but this case deeply involves the efficacy, the meaning and the enforceability of the oath.