When the impeachment of Richard Nixon was before Congress, we were in the midst of a war in Vietnam that was far bigger than Clinton's four-day bombing of Iraq. Within a week after Nixon resigned, the stock market began rising. The sky is not going to fall, no matter what happens to Bill Clinton. It is not. The orchestrated hysteria over what a trauma a Senate trial will be for us all is just a continuation of the political spinning that has been going on ever since Clinton got into trouble and had to create distractions from his own wrong-doing.
Opinion polls show that the public has fallen for a lot of it.
Perjury is not private behavior and neither is obstruction of justice. Both undermine the whole foundation of law that the president takes an oath to uphold. Those in the House of Representatives who saw through the smokescreen of disinformation and distractions, and who had the courage to buck the polls, deserve credit for sticking to their duty. Talk about how apologetic or contrite Bill Clinton is or isn't misses the whole point. This is not about one individual.