The president need not have done things that resulted in a sexual harassment lawsuit against him in the first place.
The president could easily have settled such a suit years before it metastasized into impeachment.
The president could have told the truth as soon a the Lewinsky scandal hit and defused the entire situation.
The responsibility for his distraction is
ultimately his alone. That's what responsibility means. That's what
accountability means. As president, he actually had a duty to defuse that
situation in order to function effectively as commander-in-chief. But he
chose his own political suicide instead. I opposed convicting the president;
and thoroughly criticized the Starr Report. But that doesn't mean the
president should be excused for avoiding responsibility and accountability.
And the fact that those ideas were so thoroughly trashed by Clinton himself
is only further proof of the damage he did to the culture and the
government.
