Only 11 percent of the population now agrees that he didn't commit perjury. So, Clinton sinned. And he was caught and has been made to suffer. But the country has been made to suffer, too, and I fear we won't be better for it when it's over. To the contrary, the Lewinsky case represents the triumph of tabloidism.
Sex sells everything from soap to sitcoms.
Now it's imbedded in our politics, too. Shame, a habit of lying and pride produced crimes of perjury. The tawdriness won't stop with Clinton's trial, however it ends. Moreover, the Clinton case represents a ratcheting-up of the bloodsport that U.S. politics has become. Formerly, politicians savaged their enemies in congressional hearings.