That was even so the night of the non-confession. The reason, officially, was the bombing of two U.S. embassies in east Africa earlier this month. The Pentagon experts stood up for him. There was vast evidence, they say, these were authentic bad guys. Maybe, though the people saying so are mainly those who sang of the pinpoint accuracy of the smart bombs that later proved to have been not so smart during the Gulf War.
Presidents sometimes have to get people killed.
You don't have to be an imperialist to think you oughtn't to do your dirties in the very room where decisions are made that sent our boys to die. Nor should a man caught lying to the nation and covering it up for months be the one to make those decisions. Of course the Republicans, with a big assist from media, also have done everything in their power to cheapen the presidency. Kenneth Starr was hired to look into the Whitewater land deal, not anybody's sex life. You can argue that unless it involves Natasha the Russian spy, public figures' sex lives ought to be private.