Bill Clinton in retrospect

[Willie Pep]

61. Many good politicians had moral shortcomings.

FDR cheated on his wife as did JFK. Martin Luther King also reportedly cheated on his wife. That doesn't mean that we cannot respect those men for the good things they did in politics. By contrast I have never heard anything bad about George W. Bush or Dick Cheney when it comes to sex but their policies were beyond atrocious.

While it is good that people are taking sexual harassment more seriously I find the latest obsession with sexual behavior to be strange. Democrats used to point out that Clinton lied about an affair but Bush lied about a WAR for crying out loud. That the media is spending more time rehashing the Lewinsky scandal and whether Bill Clinton should have resigned instead of discussing the Bush Administration lying us into a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people and destabilized an entire region shows how screwed up our priorities are as a country.