...And Aloha:
Laugh at your president all you want. But neither his b*** job, nor Kenneth Starr or Linda Tripp are indicators of the state of your democracy. Your elections for house, congress and president, on the contrary, are - very much so!...
The principle of democracy cannot be bent and is as quantized as molecular physics. You either have it or you don't! It is not a question of 100, 99 or 95%, it is either 1 or 0 - and it is, in my book, no laughing matter.
KD
Beginning to sound like a hairsplitting pest in red trousers ...I know...sorry for my aggressive style on this. Had I been a native english speaker, I would have argued this academic issue in more appropriate and impersonal academic terms