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Impeachment is as much a political as a legal process. It is where the sacrament of penance becomes politically relevant. Clinton performed miserably in his first public ceremonies of repentance, but then last Friday, at the White House prayer breakfast, delivered at last a persuasive peccavi, mea culpa. It was fascinating to watch the President's speech with a window at the bottom of the television screen showing the Dow Jones average moving like an electrocardiogram. The Dow was in losing territory when the Clinton started speaking, and rose steadily into the plus column as he went...
...Myers' astute political analysis, but having worked for President Clinton distorted her judgment in the piece she wrote for you, "That's Where He Lost Me." However badly the President messed up in his personal life, his responsibility as the Commander in Chief precluded the soul-baring mea culpa Myers unrealistically hoped he would deliver. No President should ever again be humiliated by an official sexual interrogation by a political opponent. Clinton was right to show his anger that Starr's dangerous "probe" is interfering with his marriage and his Executive duties. Myers accepts the premise that the President...
...wish this was over," the President said. "after I leave this place, I never want to see it again." Bill Clinton on Monday night, after his sorta culpa? No. President Ulysses Grant in 1875, after scandals had smudged his Civil War gloss. Clinton has been reading about Grant, who he believes got a "bum rap." Both men were subjected to all manner of low-grade calumny: mostly financial scandals for Grant, mostly Monica for Clinton. For both, the accusations were constant, painful and irrelevant to a majority of the public. Grant remained the nation's most popular politician even postscandal...
...angry? Too brief? Not repentant enough? Everyone's got an opinion about Bill Clinton's five-minute mea culpa, but a sharp divide is beginning to emerge between outraged pundits and the scandal-fatigued public. "The President was angrier and less contrite than anyone had expected," says TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister. "Most commentators were surprised that he didn't really apologize, went out of his way to deny committing perjury and attacked Ken Starr. Many people inside the Beltway will see his performance as almost arrogant, but the public is sick enough of the whole thing to accept...
WASHINGTON: At last, Bill Clinton came out and said it. "Indeed, I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was inappropriate. In fact, it was wrong." But that was as detailed as the President's five-minute mea culpa was going to get Monday night -- and by all accounts, not even his grand jury testimony mentioned the specifics. He came out fighting too. Attacks on the independent counsel peppered a speech that was "surprisingly defiant," according to TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "He's daring Ken Starr to subpoena him to get the rest of the testimony...