Reply #38: Why didn't say anything to Bill about Monica? Why didn't she disown and distance herself from him?

[EffieBlack]

Oh, wait a minute. Maybe she DID say something to him, but it's none of our business what she has said to him in private. And maybe she decided that the good in him and in their relationship outweighed the bad and she wasn't going to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Or is it that people have all kinds of reasons for making the personal choices they make and the fact that they don't kick people they know and love to the curb (including their husbands, who, unlike grandmothers and sisters, they DID choose) just because they do or say something wrong, even if it's REALLY, REALLY wrong.

I love the Clintons, I love Bill Clinton and defended him furiously during the impeachment mess. And I was and will continue to be the first to take issue with anyone who criticizes Hillary's handling of this matter, since none of have any right to judge the personal choices she has made. But I daresay that Clinton's tawdry affair with Monica and his subsequent efforts to cover it up did far more damage to this country than anything that Jeremiah Wright may have said.

It's obvious that there is NOTHING that Obama could do to satisfy you. If he had literally spat in Wright's face on national television and shouted "You are DEAD to me now, Old Man!" you STILL would have insisted that this wasn't enough.

Unless you're going to insist that everyone in this country - which would include you - must face down and then walk away from everyone we care about, regardless of our personal histories with them, because they may have done something wrong, you all need to get past this "Obama didn't go far enough to disown Wright" hypocritical crap.