SO much more important than Jack Kennedy's firm statement that the U.S.A. was not involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion.

SO much more important than Dwight Eisenhower's denial that U-2 spy planes were making photos while flying over Russia.

SO much more important than Lyndon Johnson's statement that a U.S. ship had been attacked by a North Vietnamese torpedo boat.

SO much more important than Richard Nixon's denial of any involvement with the Watergate burglary, or that he had ordered the bombing of Cambodia without the necessary approval of Congress.

And SO much more important than Ronald Reagan's lies about, well, almost everything.

All of that is, of course, trivia. The Republicans have nailed Clinton on something that REALLY matters: A SEX ACT! AN ACT THAT THREATENS THE VERY NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

Surely, don't you wonder what impression all this is creating in other countries?

Well, the whole thing has been summed up by a letter-to-the-editor in the Sidney Morning Herald, where a writer nailed it in one line: