Think the meaning of the Clinton scandal hasn't penetrated the countryside? Last week in a criminal court is Stafford County, Virginia, 50 miles south of Washington, the judge asked potential jurors in a burglary and sexual assault case if they could decide the matter fairly and impartially. A bearded, fiftyish man rose and asked for a sidebar at the bench. "Judge," the fellow said, "as long as Bill Clinton is not in jail, I can't vote to put anybody in jail."
"Sir?," the judge said, taken aback. "He belongs in jail," the man reiterated. The prosecutor then asked the judge to drop the man from the jury pool. And the judge complied.