Monica Lewinsky made a poor choice when she had sex with a married man.

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146. Agreed

That was the real problem here, the President compromised all of us who supported him (and who had believed his promises that his randy past was finally behind him) by doing this. He didn't even pick something approaching an "equal", not that there's anything quite equivalent to being POTUS, but someone who saw herself with as much to lose as he had would have at least probably kept this from coming out into public view.

At this point, we do not have the total picture of what compromises the President made as a result of having this affair. We don't know what he did in regards to foreign policy (Monica was Jewish, did Israel get cut some kind of break that she blackmailed him into) or domestic policy (who did he bargain with to get an acquittal in the Senate) that simply wouldn't have happened if he had been strong enough to send her away when she flashed the thong at him the first time.

I'm quite sure that had they not done this, Al Gore would have been elected President, and we would not have had the damages that eight years of W. have given us. Yes, she was weak, but we didn't elect her to look out for this country's well being.