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

[MADem]

176. They didn't have sex.

They "fooled around" but they didn't "have sex" in the way most college kids interpret the term.

It was a dumbass thing for both of them to do, and it was many years ago. Bill is a senior citizen, and Monica is middle-aged. The people who might want to light a fire under this puppy, though, must be really ticked off because Monica's VF article has come out too SOOOOOON!!!!!

This entire topic will be hashed, rehashed, and hashed again before anyone declares their candidacy. That, no doubt, will disappoint the people who want to roll this up into little balls and pelt Hillary Clinton with it. So, I guess, just as well to run it all up the flagpole again now, and get it over with!

It was MORE than sixteen years ago, closer to eighteen when the affair or whatever one might call it was happening--I remember when the doggone Newt Gingrich Contract 'on' America crap put Monica in such close proximity to POTUS...all the GS-types were sent home in November after the continuing resolution authority had run out, and it was only military and people getting their salaries from non-appropriated funding streams (Monica, an intern, was one of 'em). They did another CR, and everyone came back to work after a week off for a couple of weeks, and then that CR ran out, so everyone went home from mid-Dec to early Jan 96. At that point they finally had agreement, but it was difficult for a time, there with no GS workers for a couple of weeks--fortunately it was around the holidays so we were used to doing more with less. THAT's when most of the, er, 'damage' happened.

Monica was eventually shuttled out of the WH proper over to the EOB to work Legislative Affairs, but she didn't work out there so they sent her to ASD PAO at the Pentagon...and that's where she met Linda Tripp.

The story reached critical mass, and Monica got her transactional immunity in 1998, but all the misbehavior occurred FAR earlier. And ironically, Mister Finger Wagging Scold himself, Newt Gingrich, was cheating on his wife/kicking up his heels with the woman who was his secret mistress, and who is now his wife, Helmet Haired Calista, in the Speeeekah's office, on the Speeeeekah's leather couch, and on the Speeekah's conference table, if the gossip is to be believed...!

It's a wonder any work got done at all--Newt was getting busier than Clinton could have hoped to do...