Reply #45: I don't CARE whether Bill keeps his pants zipped

[mntleo2]

....I am no Hillary fan, but I think anyone who runs stories like this are idiots ~ and the people who read them and consider them somehow "relevant" to whether or not people can do a job are just plain fools.

Hillary Clinton is married to a VERY popular man and she know it. She has had to become strong enough to overcome all the crap before. She also must be comfortable with her marriage as it is and finds some peace in it. Lots of presidents before Bill were unfaithful. My father-in-law told about Eisenhower holed up in a mountain chalet in France with a pretty little thing while his troups invaded Germany, Jefferson had his paramour with his slave Mary who was more than a slave, she was his long time companion, Johnson, Kennedy, Truman, Nixon, they all had side affairs. Their wives still remained friends with their husbands and found some mutual grounds to remain with their husbands.

These keyhole peepers who have to know practically when/where/how someone takes a crap are not talking about the things that matter. One time a man hit on me who was married when I was younger. I asked him how his wife would feel about this. He said, "She knows my ways ..." I told him, "Yeah she may know your ways, but I respect her too much to do this to her ..." His wife was a powerful woman within his community as was he. I am sure they had an "arrangement" but I was not going to be part of it. I knew she deserved better than the embarrassment of having to pretend she did not know what an asshat he is/was as far as his libido was concerned. But it had nothing to do about how "moral" she was to put up with it or he to do what he did, and I am sure they were content as it was. It had to do with this woman's beautiful self who deserved my respect. They are still married btw, and they raised 4 beautiful kids, and she still has my respect ~ more now than ever because she knows herself and what is important to her and it has little to do with how her husband behaves, it has to do with who she is and it was not all about sex, it is about herself.

I suspect Hillary is in much the same position as my friend's with her husband and I respect her strength for surviving it and coming out a powerful person herself. She did not let it crush her, she stood above it and whatever arrangement she and Bill have is not my affair (pun included).

My 2 cents

Cat In Seattle