The following is an article that I found interesting, 
particularly the last paragraph.
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The Washington Post
Making Liars of Us All
By Michael Kelly
Wednesday, February 11, 1998; Page A21
Assume for the sake of crazy, far-fetched argument that President
Clinton is lying about Monica Lewinsky. The line from the
president's increasingly cornered defenders is that this doesn't
matter, that this is a lot of huff and puff about nothing more
than a married man's bit of on-the-side stuff. And, anyway, Ken
Starr has committed acts a lot worse than anything the president
did, not that he did anything.
No. The Lewinsky matter is not about the minor and personal
question of whatever an individual does in the pursuit of
happiness behind closed doors. And it is not about the
diversionary question of prosecutorial misconduct. It is about
the largest, most central and most public of questions: whether
we demand that the president obey the law, whether we accept that
the president lies to us.
There are a great many laws on the books of this country, many of
them onerous and some of them odious. Nevertheless, we are all
required to obey them all. You have to tell the truth under oath,
and so does the president. You may not conspire to obstruct
justice, and neither may the president. You must not paw women
who come to you seeking employment, and so too must not the
president. To excuse the head of government from the laws that
govern the rest of us is not to tolerate one man's peccadilloes;
it is to tolerate the corruption of democracy.
And it is this fomenting of corruption that is the great problem
with Clinton. The president has always had around him a
constellation of defenders -- the planet Rodham, the moon
Blumenthal, the satellites Carville and Begala -- who are
prepared to do whatever is necessary in defense of anything
Clinton does. These are people who believe in total-war politics,
and they accept, to borrow from what Churchill said about truth,
that Clinton is so precious that he should always be attended by
a bodyguard of lies.
Fine, if that's as far as it goes. But year by year, scandal by
scandal, the defense of Clinton has made the rest of us
accomplices to these lies. The most serious consequence of this
has been to devastate what is left of liberalism's claim to be
the philosophy of morality in politics.
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