Yes, I know, everyone else has written about this so why do we need more of cyberspace filled up with endless commentary on the subject? A number of responses come to mind. First, it's my page and I guess that gives me the power to do it if I want. Secondly, if sometime in the distant future some alien race comes to earth, studies earth history, and then asks if there was any evidence of intelligent life forms on earth during this period, I want our descendants to be able to point to this essay as support for a positive answer. Thirdly, if others can write in support of him, I can certainly write to set the record straight! (Any guesses as to where I stand in my opinion of Clinton?)

It seems evident now to the Congress, the American people, and to all the world (excepting Hillary, Carville, and a few others that refuse to say 'ouch' when hit by a bat) that there is no question that Mr. Clinton did engage in behavior of which we can assume that his wife would not have totally supported (had she known). Basically, as I understand the situation at this time, his supporters insist on posing the question of whether it is any of our business. My answer would be that no, what he does in privacy, off duty, with a consenting adult, is between him, his family, and any moral code to which he subscribes. Which now means, I suppose, that it is only between him and his family as, apparently, he possesses no moral code identifiable as such.

However, when he engaged in this behavior, he was not off duty but was in his office (or at least adjacent to his office. It certainly was not his residential area), while he was purportedly working and it was with a subordinate employee who was also, theoretically, working. On-the-job sex, so far as I know, is taboo and the boss (who has a right and responsibility to know what the employees are doing during paid time), if he/she discovers it, would usually terminate the employees. Clinton's boss is the public and the public has a right to know if their employee is doing right or wrong. I have no desire to hear graphic details of his intimate acts, but I think I have a right to know whether or not my employee is engaged in inappropriate activity.

Furthermore, such acts between a senior employee and a junior employee constitute sexual harassment, regardless of whether the activity was consensual or not. His status and his power, (so the politically correct teachings currently go) rendered her unable to make her own decision in this matter. Sexual harassment is a crime. Depending on where you stand regarding the feminist movement, this crime could be a misdemeanor or it could be a capital crime, but regardless, it is, in fact and in law, a crime.

When Clinton chose to lie to the jury (and his waffeling semantics aside, it is overtly obvious that he did lie), then he committed another crime. This time, no question about it, it was a felony. When his supporters originally told everyone that nothing had happened with Monica, they did so for one of two reasons: Either because he lied to them or the entire group lied to us in order to defend him. My personal opinion is that he lied to them.

The net result is that we have as president a man who will betray his own wife, lie to his friends, and commit crimes both high and low. There is an old saying that goes something like: "the people get the leadership they deserve". If true, then what a sad commentary on the citizens of the United States.

There are those who would try to lay blame for this expensive and lengthy ordeal on Judge Starr, but I fail to accept their reasoning. Starr was charged with investigating a situation. He did his job. Clinton used every artifice to hinder, stop, or delay this investigation. If it took many months and many dollars, this should not be laid at Starr's feet but at those clumps of clay Clinton has stuck at the bottom of his legs.

Others spew venom at Starr for releasing to the public the details of his report. They don't bother to pay attention to little details such as the fact that Starr simply referred his report to the House Judiciary Committee, as was his duty, and THEY authorized the release. Personally, I believe the public has a right to know the contents of the report, but regardless of that, whether you support the release to the public or not, it was authorized by members of Congress, not by Starr.

The final answer? Yes, I am sick of it of this whole long-drawn out process. And yes, there are far more important things to do in this country. I only wish that Clinton had kept that in mind and other things in his pants. Now he has forced the country to waste time, money, and energy in order to resolve the mess. Had he honor, he would resign and let us move on. But, had he honor he would not have cheated on his wife nor lied to his friends, the American public, and the grand jury.

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Since writing the above, I have become the recipient of a copy of a letter which was written to Clinton by a retired Army officer. The officer, Eric Jowers, served as public affairs officer at Fort Rucker from 1989 to 1991. He presently lives in Ozark, Alabama. For my money, this is the best statement which I have seen regarding Clinton.

Letter to the President:

Dear Mr. President:

It's not about sex. If it were about sex, you would be long gone. Just like a doctor, attorney, or teacher who had sex with a patient, client or student half his age, you would have violated the ethics of your office and would be long gone.

Just like a Sergeant Major of the Army, Gene McKinney, who, though found not guilty, was forced to resign amid accusations of sexual abuse.

Remember the Air Force General you wouldn't nominate to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because he freely admitted to an affair almost 15 years before, while he and his wife were separated? Unlike you, he was never accused of having a starry-eyed office assistant my daughter's age perform oral sex on him while he was on the phone and his wife and daughter were upstairs.

If it were about sex, you should be subjected to the same horrible hearings that Clarence Thomas was subjected to because of the accusations of Anita Hill. The only accusation then was that he talked dirty to her; He didn't even leave semen stains on her dress.

No, it's not about sex. It's about character. It's about lying. It's about arrogance. It's about abuse of power. It's about dodging the draft and lying about it. When caught in a lie by letters you wrote, you concocted a story that nobody believed. But we excused it and looked away.

It's about smoking dope, and lying about it. "I didn't inhale," you said. Sure, and when I was 15 and my buddies and I swiped a beer from an unwatched refrigerator, we drank from it, but we didn't swallow. "I broke no laws of the United States," you said. That's right, you smoked dope in England or Norway or Moscow; where you were demonstrating against the U.S.A. You lied, but we excused it and looked away.

It's about you selling overnight stays in the White House to any foreigner or other contributor with untraceable cash. It's about Whitewater and Jim and Susan McDougal and Arkansas, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and Vincent Foster and Jennifer Flowers and Paula Jones and Karen Willey and nearly countless others.

It's about stealing the records from Foster's office while his body was still warm and putting them in your bedroom and "not noticing them" for two years. It's about illegal political contributions. It's about you and Al Gore soliciting contributions and selling influence at Buddhist temples and in the same Oval Office where Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt led their countries through the dark days of wars that threatened the very existence of our nation. But we excused you and looked away.

It's about hiding evidence from Ken Starr, refusing to testify, filing legal motions, coaching witnesses, obstructing Justice and delaying Judge Starr's inquiry for months and years, and then complaining that it has gone on too long. The polls agreed. Thank goodness that Judge Starr didn't read the polls, play politics or excuse you and look away. He held on to the evidence like a tenacious bulldog.

Your supporters say that you've confessed your wrongdoings and asked for our forgiveness. Listen, what you said on TV the night you testified to the grand jury was not a confession. Confession in the face of overwhelming evidence is not a confession at all. Not that it would make a lot of difference. A murderer who contritely confesses his crime is still a murderer. When your "confession" didn't sell, even to your friends, you became more forthcoming.

Maybe someday you'll confess more, but probably not. You've established such a pattern of lying that we can't believe you anymore. Neither can your cabinet, the Congress or any of the leaders of the nations of the world.

When a leader's actions defame and emasculate our country as profoundly as yours have, it is no longer a personal matter, as you claim. It's no longer a matter among you, your family and your God.

By the way, I don't believe for a minute that Hillary was unaware of your sexual misadventures, abuses of power and pattern of lying. She has been a party to your wrongdoings since Whitewater and Jennifer Flowers just as surely as she lied about the Rose Law Firm's billings and hid the Vincent Foster evidence in your bedroom for two years. Why? So she could share in the raw power that your office carries. The two of you probably lied to Chelsea, but that is a matter among you, your family and your God.

Remember the sign over James Carville's desk during the 1992 campaign? It said, "It's the economy, stupid!" Place this sign over your desk: "It's about character, stupid!" No, it's not about sex, Mr. President. If it were, you would be long gone. It's about character; but we have to live with your filth, lies and arrogance for a while longer. Your lies, amorality and lack of character have been as pervasive as they have been despicable, so we have no reason to believe that you will quietly resign and go away. You'll count on half truths and spin doctors to see you through, the country be damned. It has always worked before. We excused you and looked the other way.

No more, we've had enough. You betrayed us enough. You have made every elected official, minister, teacher, diplomat, parent and grandparent in the country apologize for you and explain away your actions. Now go away, and let us show them that our country was not without morals. It was just that you were. Let us show them that America was not the problem. William Jefferson Clinton was.

Go away, Mr. President. Leave us alone. And when you leave, know that your legacy to the United States of America will be a stain on the Office of the President that is as filthy as the stain on Monica's dress. It will take a lot of scrubbing to make it clean again.