Clinton's approval ratings during Lewinsky

[LBJer]

I've always thought that the Clinton impeachment pointed up one of the few, if not the only, weak point in the Constitution.  Why were the Founding Fathers so vague about what constitutes grounds for impeachment?  "High crimes and misdemeanors"?  This can mean whatever a president's political opponents want it to mean, as we saw with the Republicans against Clinton.  To me, it seems like a glaring weakness in an otherwise incredibly well-thought out document.

[LBJer]

About the documentary--I watched it too, and I thought it spent way too much time on the Lewinsky "scandal,"  given that we can now view Clinton's presidency from a distance of more than 10 years.  I think the ultimate verdict will be: yes, even given that he's clearly a horndog, Clinton showed poor judgment--particularly in the way he handled the legal issues arising from the relationship, both in initially giving evasive answers and in stonewalling when it became public.  However, Monica Lewinsky will not define his presidency.  I thought the program should have devoted much more time to Clinton's role in the negotiations that led to the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland, and to his strenuous (albeit unsuccessful) efforts at negotiating an agreement between Yasir Arafat and Ehud Barak in the Middle East.  I agree with a reviewer in the York Dispatch  that other important issues and themes weren't even touched on as well, such as Clinton's phenomenal popularity in the black community (to the point of being called the first black president), and the question of why exactly the Clintons--Bill and Hillary alike--were so hated by a certain segment of American society and by the Republican establishment.