PRESIDENT CLINTON'S LIES HAVE LED HIM DOWN THE ROAD TO POSSIBLE DISBARMENT IN ARKANSAS

So now a committee of the Arkansas Bar Association has recommended that the president of the United States be disbarred. Good for them. The committee recommendation will now go before a circuit judge before making its way to the state supreme court for a final decision, should it be appealed that far.

The action arose out of the president's notorious and manifestly dishonest testimony in the Paula Jones case. The matter was referred to them by U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright, in whose presence Clinton lied repeatedly, during depositions, under oath. This federal judge, who ironically is a former student of one-time law professor Clinton, scored President Clinton for testimony that was "misleading, false and evasive," and which "obstructed justice."

Throughout his public life, President Clinton has lied when it suited him, lied when he had to and lied when the truth would have done just fine. An example must be made. Lawyers are officers of the court, sworn to an oath. Mr. Clinton violated his. Disbarring him will make a public example that such misconduct is intolerable.