Word: mattered
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...This matter is far from resolved. There is still much debate over whether Clinton's marital infidelity and lying about sexual behavior, as upsetting as they may be, constitute impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors...
Ironically, the government shutdown is often viewed as the best thing to happen to Bill Clinton politically during his first term. By demonstrating the excessiveness and "extremism" of the new Republican Congressional leaders and by reminding people that government actually does matter, the shutdown scared voters back to Clinton and he cruised to a second term. Now, the events of that same week mar that second term and the President's place in history...
...never mind. He stopped the bloodletting for now. When the Starr report comes, if it is as damning and detailed as expected, the drama of when and how much he would apologize will be seen as an insignificant sideshow. The main event may be so devastating that no matter how sorry he is, the Comeback Kid will have no comeback...
...truly sorry for their misbehavior and those who are only sorry they got caught. Most other Americans can tell the difference too. JOHN CAPANNA Pasadena, Calif. The simple words of the Rev. Jim Casy in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath provide meaningful commentary on the Clinton-Lewinsky matter: "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right...
Such a signal may have come for Bill Clinton last week, when one of his most reliable allies demolished the President's assertion that his relationship with Monica Lewinsky was a private matter and also made the case that it transcended the dry question of whether he broke the law. Connecticut Democrat Joe Lieberman--Clinton's friend of almost three decades, a politician whose own secure future would have allowed him to remain silent, a devout man with no apparent agenda beyond his sense of right and wrong--called the President's behavior immoral and damaging to the country...