I'll be the first to admit I don't know a great deal about all of the laborious ins and outs government tends to follow like a road map through its hidden agendas. I don't have a rich knowledge of the history behind all of the good or bad moves (depending on your political stance) that President Clinton has enforced upon our great land of America. I really can't say with much revere that I am particularly affiliated with either the Republican or Democratic mantra. However, what I do know is I am a citizen of this vast land and have an opinion nonetheless, especially since I too am affected by what happens just the same.

Throughout the past year and a half or so, we have all beared witness to a landmark occurrence -- a political rarity -- the deliberation over removing a president from his oval office. It appears the line in the sand was drawn from the beginning and as opposed to our wonderful government working as one, unified body the obvious complications have risen. Almost as bad as the numbing and utterly disappointing realm that black versus white has taken us to over the years, though it appears we are beginning to show signs of overcoming that immaturity, now we have a true Republican vs. Democrat issue within the government. And if it wasn't vaguely apparent before, especially in the logicality of opposing viewpoints, they've decided to get personal this time. Why can't we all just get along (or so the cliché states)?

There's no way around admitting what President Clinton did was wrong from a moral stance -- cheating on his wife and lying about it, though I honestly never really felt lied to (that's probably just due to the fact that I never felt I was exclusively told about it either). The manner in which the whole matter came to be of public observation and scrutiny, especially sometime after it had occurred, was a bit disturbing.

And what about Monica? Did she not know he was married? Did she not see the eventual dollar signs, clouding her vision and mind, as too many cups of strong coffee will sometimes do?

Well, when her highly touted book breaks and she gets her Barbara Walters' interview, for whatever that's worth, I'm sure you will all still give a damn and give up your hard-earned dollars to find out what really happened. Right? I know that I won't. I mean, I'm not trying to say she hasn't been through some tough times during this ordeal, but didn't she ask for it by alerting the media?

Another idea that boggles my mind, is how the rest of world could have possibly reacted to this political "scandal," if you will, that transpired? I didn't get a chance to scour the news and investigate this avenue, but how could the citizens of other countries not laugh at our country as it was being made to look like an embarrassed fool who just had his towel pulled off of him right after stepping out of the shower. It was somewhat interesting to see, at least of the commentary that I witnessed, how other leaders were very supportive of our president. For some of them though, they probably couldn't understand how this could possibly happen when you are the ruler of a nation, and in control of all the people.

Well, this isn't communism we're dealing with here. In this country though, nobody is safe from the watchful eye, and if you are anywhere within sight of the national spotlight, you're close enough to have your past, present and future sifted through as if you are being investigated for first-degree murder.

So, as we move forward into the dawn of a new century, hopefully we can all be a part of a more justifiable and unified system of government. I think that this trial will expose some of the now clear problems within the delineation of political partisanism. It seems that in the least, we all should have learned there is definitely more to politicians these days than just their stance on health care issues and unemployment rates. They are also liars, thieves and occasionally, good people, too.