Well, I figured I would wait and not pile on to the endless questions involving what has transpired in the last couple of weeks, but now, after some reflection and reading a lot of differing opinions on the subject, it's time to add my 10 cents worth to the debate over Clinton's morals and the howling over the same.
Look, if the man can run the country, get in a game of golf and pretty much do what would take most of us 25 hours a day to accomplish, as well as get a little action on the side, more power to him. My biggest problem lies in the fact that after 5 years as the most powerful man in the world, his taste in women hasn't improved any. He still has an eye for these trashy bimbos that he had to settle for when he was just a second rate governor. Hell, even JFK improved his taste in women after he got to the White House.
What's even more troubling is the fact that this little tramp has the nerve to go around bragging about her little fling, rather than just being satisfied with what she's got. Even worse is the busy-body who taped the phone calls and then turned them over to a shady book agent. Is her life so mundane tht all she can do is occupy her time with meddling in the personal details of others whose lives are obviously far more interesting than her own?
All this hand wringing over the "moral implications" is a lot of energy wasted. Politics in the United States has devolved into a self-serving exercise in influence and personal popularity, so why do we expect people who delve in it to be as pure as saints? Some people should have better sense than to judge what others do, in the name of trying to save us from decay of national values.
Poor Clinton, he desperately wants us to believe he's as pure as a choir-boy, when really, we don't expect him to be perfect, just competent at what he does. If he'd just shrug his shoulders and say "well, maybe I did", he'd find a lot more people would be willing to accept his flaws, rather than the constant denying of everything short of being the Unabomber. At some point, there has to be realization that we are a nation of degenerates, and we really need to get over the thought that we should expect someone better than us to be our leader.
We'd better come up with some sort of different standard to judge the people we trust with our lives and well-being, because there are scant few of us whose lives could hold up under the scrutiny that we place on public figures' lives. Once we do, we'll all be better off, and we can avoid the spectacle of howling wolves crying for the head of the President. It makes the United States look like a nation of mean spirited punks. Look in the mirror--what does the person looking back at you see?
Selah