What will history say about Clinton impeachment?

[WhereThereIsFire]

This has been a huge topic of discussion among friends in recent days and, though holidays have kept me away from most of the political talk shows, apparently the media is discussing it too. There may alread by a thread on here somewhere about it, but I've not found it. And the "key" issue is apparently "what do we tell the children?" My suggestion was/is this:

"The opposition party hounded this good man for the entire 8 years of his presidency and, finding him not guilty of any crime, they manipulated an immature but adult woman into leading him into a sexually compromised position.

That sexual liason was no crime on his part.

But, when he told a small lie about his personal sexual indescretion with this woman, to protect his family from pain, that tiny lie became the ONLY thing they were able to accuse him of after spending billions of taxpayer dollars. Still, to further injure his presidency the attackers chose to pursue the lie as an impeachable offense, and effectively did so since they held a majority in Congress.

Those vicious attacks on this man were a costly, vile and ineffective way to use taxpayer money and all Americans have suffered from the Republican's attack."

Nothing in that tells the "children" more than they need to know ... but does paint the correct picture of what happened. Of course, the repugs, while alive, won't let THAT be the version...after they are dead, assuming the world lasts that long, the explanation is likely to be more like that statement