Oh Kristen

[moriah]

49. I've gotten people mad at me for saying it in the past...

... but we'd all have been better off if Bill could have chosen his partners for consensual liaisons better while in office. More mature women, not people who could be considered subordinates or whom he had power over, ones who understood you didn't gossip about an affair with a President. At the same time, he didn't. And workplace rules about sexual encounters with subordinates then weren't what they are now, which she also said in the NY Times article CNN linked (may have to open it in a private window).

But Bill isn't running for office, and hasn't been.

I haven't seen anything about her demonizing Hillary for how she handled the aspects of her marriage that aren't any of our business. The money was accepted to keep Hillary's seat blue. She supported Hillary for president. Maybe she considered it Hillary's money?

Maybe she agrees with the many women who feel Hillary was placed in a lose-lose position as the spouse of anyone (but especially a politician) who, despite also doing great things and her loving him, has issues about monogamy? Frankly I wouldn't have cared if they were in an open marriage the whole time. But in 1978-1992, in Arkansas? All Hillary could hope for was for him to be discreet, and choose partners mature enough to also be discreet.

Again, I'll reiterate that I am simply praying the sacrifice on the altar of the moral high ground ends up having more effect than the smell of blood drawing more sharks, if you'll pardon my mixed metaphor.