[the final gentleman]

"I have to say, in spite of Clinton's disgusting behavior with women, I think the Kenn Starr prosecution was a very, very bad thing for the nation. Surely there were other things he did besides lie about an extramarital sleazefest, which almost anyone would do. The wholesale search for things to prosecute in every administration is the result. It may never end. It's bad for the country."
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I dunno, Albion, you make comparisons based on your presumptions, and you fail to make the distinctions that separate wrong from right.

Do you think it best left untold and best unaddressed if our President Bush banged a nineteen year old White House intern in the Oval Office and then, while looking directly into the eyes of the American people via television, he indignantly swore (under oath) that he didn't?

[Albion Wilde]

Do you think it best left untold and best unaddressed if our President Bush banged a nineteen year old White House intern in the Oval Office and then, while looking directly into the eyes of the American people via television, he indignantly swore (under oath) that he didn't?

That's a "when did you stop beating your wife" question, because Bush would never do such a thing.

As for Slick Willie, of course his behavior was reprehensible. But the prosecution started out over substantive charges and ended up over a lie that was forced out of him when his pecadillo was made public. Sometimes extremes, even in the search for "justice", are a bad thing. Are you aware that, as a result of the huge publicity Kenn Starr's questioning of Clinton received, massive numbers of middle school children began practicing oral sex and contracting sexually-transmitted diseases orally, because all that information was printed in the daily newspapers and explained to the prosecutor by our then-President?