[TheRealThing]

So you posted a 14-year old article, refused to say whether you agreed with its conclusions, and now say that neither the country nor the media has changed since the Clinton era? Interesting opinion...

I would add the following; fourteen years ago when Clinton was being impeached, the media didn't take the point on his defense. John Conyers (D) Mich., Shelia Jackson Lee (D) Tx., Rep Maxine Waters (D) Cal., Patrick Leahy (D) Ver., and Ted Kennedy (D) Mass., led the big guns in defense of Clinton. Speaking publicly everyday in his defense, and pioneering the once novel though now accepted notion, that one's personal life is somehow different from his public life. Many of the newscasters of that day found the notion laughable back then. The leader of the free world, lied to the world, with a straight face, by redefining what moral behavior was according to his very relative priciples. Thereby diminishing forever, the power, and the honor, of the office of President of The United States of America. Clinton's famous quote: "It depends on what your defintition of is, is." more succinctly characterizes his mindset. Simply put, a few Democratic leaders were willing to put party ahead of country, and we have been in a death spiral of compromise since that day. It was then that we Americans became willing to consider right and wrong in relative terms. The Clinton legacy is one of disgrace, by the standard of that era. Step by step, we continue to this day to lose our grip on integrity due to compromise which, is the magic elixer of the liberal.

If the judiciary committee'd had a movie in HD of the whole matter it wouldn't have made a bit of difference to these guys. They circled the wagons because they knew how much damage an admission of guilt would have caused the Dems. In spite of it all, the once cocky, smurking, president Bill Clinton's head now hung in shame as a result of world exposure and threats by Hillary that it was over between them.

He would have gotten a pass by today's media. However, the media of that time sensationalized the stain on the blue dress, veiled references made about the famous cigar that became somewhat hard to light and clips of Lewinski with Clinton at White House functions aired nightly.

The way in which Mr Clinton is lauded as a presidential titan in our time is evidence of how short most Americans memories are.