Even so, the framers of the Constitution would be alarmed at the concentration of power in the hands of the modern presidency, as well as the difficulty of holding a president accountable for abuses of power. They intended to stop tyranny long before it reached the Caligula stage. Clinton has waged a seven-month war of attrition on our standards of public conduct. It's only sex, it's only lying about sex, it's only perjury about sex. That way he can mount a weird reverse character defense in which he hides his crimes behind his shabby little sins.
Some people lie a lot.
Some talk in fine print. Bill Clinton does both. He's perfected the technique of seeming to say something that leaves room for later denial. Dealing with such a man gets to be trying.