Less than perfect Editorial America is working again, declared President Bill Clinton in his State of the Union Address, as he paraded before the American people an exhaustive inventory of accomplishments during his administration. Unemployment is down.
Violent crime is down.
The budget is balanced. The president addressed the nation on the evening of a day on which his attorneys began their opening arguments in his impeachment trial. Only in America, the late pundit Harry Golden would have said. Only in America would our democratic system of government keep on working, even as a body of elected officials considers ousting our highest elected official. The congressional chamber was packed Tuesday evening, and millions more Americans tuned in to hear Clinton's address.