I have in mind those of us who see our neighbor's household pet and recognize it as a dog, not a potential beneficiary of the Bill of Rights and an eventual naturalized citizen of the United States. We see spring showers and avail ourselves of an umbrella rather than a bomb shelter. A disciplined account of Ken Starr's investigation of Whitewater and all the attendant Clinton scandals that followed, Truth at Any Cost sees the Independent Counsel's investigation of President Clinton as it is. Rather, Starr's work has been the orderly procedures of a duly constituted prosecutor pursuing the irregularities of a politician who clearly and repeatedly has lied under oath and obstructed justice. There is nothing particularly unusual or villainous here.
Politicians lie all the time.
To those of us who see the world as it is, Clinton is what he has been since we began viewing him sometime around 1991, to wit, a rogue who puts himself above the law. He is, as a now famous judge described him after seeing him as he is even under oath. And she cited him for contempt of court. Through all the years of Clinton scandals the Clintons and their apologists have tried to hornswoggle the public into seeing things as they are not. They say that except for a regrettable libidinal lapse with the callipygian Monica he has led a morally irreproachable life in the White House, though they cannot explain why during his years as Arkansas' chief executive officer he was accused of precisely the same kind of misbehavior that put him on the road to impeachment in Washington.