[Basquiat]

Not to defend Ken Starr's politics, but he's a fine attorney with an admirable record. Clinton most certainly bailed him out, which is why I find the current President's refusal to allow Rove and Myer's to be deposed under oath, so pathetic and reprehensible.
The current President has given significant evidence that he thinks he is above the law, or atleast his office is. It most certainly is not!
Moreover, this President was originally (though arguably) elected based on the lack of honesty of the former President.
It strikes me that the issues upon which we question this President, have ZERO to do with his personal conduct, but EVERYTHING to do with his apparent lack of competence and/or ability, and his lack of integrity; the lack of which has been forced upon this nation in the form of pork barrel spending, a GROSS lack of Presidential Vetos, and an intentional defamation of a CIA operative in order to serve a strictly political position.
I'm okay with a President who is forced to lie for national security, which history will find completely obvious, but this is a President who signed an EO limiting access to Presidential libraries. (Luckily Congress has figured out that they are the ACTUAL LEGISLATORS in this nation, and have over ruled G.W. Mussolini, but this clearly could have gone unnoticed for a number of important years.)
Sadly for us all, three Presidents have given us reason to seriously doubt the office since 1940. One was Clinton, one is in office, and if you need me to tell you the name of the other, than my words are already wasted.
Sadly two have given a reason to doubt our governmental process, and though Clinton may have boned an intern, he was not one of them.
The process of liberty is the most sacred aspect of our American existence. The individual conduct is so much less important than a governmental process that takes place in the transparency of sun light.
In my opinion, this lack of transparency is the primary reason for the quagmire of the political process we are dealing with today.
BOTH partes are able to accuse the other of purgerious conduct, though no one can prove it. The very nature of meetings, held behind closed doors, is in and of itself, open to the very essence of ethical questioning.

But, to me what I find the most amusing/disgusting, is that we go out of our way, as a society, to question...nay interrogate and ridicule, those that DARE to question the status quo, when the status quo, and our comfort within, is the very agent that most quickly leads us to our own home made demise.