Click here for a special offer. Click here for our free newsletter. With one stroke, Clinton can atone for his sins and preserve his presidency As if the turmoil over the presidency and the pathetic and reckless behavior of its current occupant weren't enough, the country now has to endure a sexual witch hunt tainting members of Congress.
Public life is demeaned every day.
Clinton himself began it, but the door was opened wide by the prurient Kenneth Starr. His report was filled with irrelevant, lurid detail, most of which was so unnecessary for his legal case that it smacked of zealotry rather than judicial inquiry. The country is ill-served by a sanctimonious exploitation of the crisis. The release of the full Starr report, and now the video of once supposedly sacrosanct grand jury testimony, does not damage merely the president but also the dignity of the presidency, diminishing the perception of its strength so necessary in a dangerous world. In a U.S. News poll this week, only 32 percent of the respondents favored impeachment and 15 percent said that nothing should happen to Clinton at all.