This Stormy thing is really getting some media play and makes it worthwhile to revisit the Clinton impeachment.
That got started as an investigation into shady business dealings. Two prosecutors found no fault with the Clintons. TWO! The first one filed his report; that wasn't good enough for the Newt Gingrich crowd so they authorized another investigation led by Kenn Starr. He also found to evidence of wrongdoing and wrapped up his investigation. Only after that did Linda Tripp reach him about Monica Lewinsky and we all know the rest of that story.
Adultery is a private choice. The important rejection of it comes from love, not intimidation. The reason not to commit it is that it is likely to devastate someone you love if he or she learns about it. And the only way that person won't learn about it is if you tell a lot of lies. Telling a lot of lies eventually harms your ability to maintain a trusting relationship; secretiveness undermines intimacy. And tending a committed, intimate relationship is a deeply meaningful part of life, though we all know it has its share of bad days.
While biographers have described people who are exceptions and seem able to countenance adultery and marital intimacy at the same time, by and large the reason not to choose adultery is that the pleasure it offers is taken in trade for harming more enduring love and more important loved ones.
But publicly humiliating anyone for consensual adultery is draconian, and wrong. It teaches children cynicism. What they see is how little respect there is for privacy, and how gratuitously and harshly adults will harm one another to gain a little power. And using adultery or any aspect of consensual adult sexuality as a weapon in political battles is more abhorrent than the act itself.
You might say that how and why we disapprove of adultery is as important as whether we do.
Last edited by Parkbandit; 03-26-2018 at 08:58 PM.
Clinton got into trouble because he lied. If he had done the honest thing and said something like "Yeah, what of it." it would have been done and gone in a week or less since the media was fawning over Clinton as much or more than they did over Obama. Hillary knew he was having affairs, hell, she was having affairs, people like that just seem to do that kind of thing. It's part of that whole "Do as I say, not as I do" thing that elitist jackasses get into. Almost no one gives a damn that he fucked a porn star before becoming POTUS, even less people care that he paid her off, it's what rich people do, it's only a big deal because CNN and the Liberal/Socialist elite have nothing else to try and go on to get rid of Trump and she thinks she can get more money. Mostly it's jealousy because she likely turned a lot of them down.
I asked for neither your Opinion,
your Acceptance
nor your Permission.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." Dante Alighieri 3
"It took 2000 mules to install one Jackass." Diamond and Silk Watch the Movie
Ya you're 100% correct about Clinton. He got caught lying. The second half of your paragraph is wishful thinking.
Jealousy, just what rich people do, blame CNN and liberal elite. Come on man. Get real. Paying hush money to a pornstar weeks before the election is the type of thing a nation of laws should investigate. Maybe its all ok and that's alright too, but for God's sakes you can't reasonably argue that its not worthy of review.
I asked for neither your Opinion,
your Acceptance
nor your Permission.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." Dante Alighieri 3
"It took 2000 mules to install one Jackass." Diamond and Silk Watch the Movie