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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica?
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To: halfscot who wrote (8127)2/23/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: Janice Shell   of 20981
 
...is it too much to expect our president to aspire to higher values than the common man?

Yes, I think so. After all, this IS the country in which "anyone" can grow up to be President. And all too often that's what happens. People appear to feel more comfortable with someone they perceive as being like themselves--good and bad qualities--than with Perfection.

Again, I don't think politicians' private lives are--should be--any of our business. I do think it's not too much to expect that they conduct them with some discretion. And I would like to think they have better taste in girlfriends than Clinton appears to have. But the mere fact of a politician's having an adulterous affair doesn't fill me with horror. Remember: we also tend to make life difficult for pols who divorce, and even for those who are single. As a people we quite absurdly suppose that in order to qualify for high public office one really ought to be married and have two children (or more, as if they're old enough they can help with the campaign, and then later get in trouble in a variety of ways).

Now it seems to be okay to have been divorced before one got seriously involved in politics. But I daresay a president who divorces while in office would find himself in for a great deal of grief.
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