Is this our business?

[RB TexLa]

Poll question: Is this our business?

There is a thread with over 100 posts about where Laura Bush is or isn't living and what is going on with their marriage. Do people really think this is anyone's business?

[cassiepriam]

1. If marital problems stem from Bush's alcoholism and drug use, yes

of course it is our business.

[havocmom]

2. GOP spent how many millions snooping on Clinton?

While I don't especially think private acts are public, humor and venting are healthy. The GOP put sex lives on the public table. We are just serving up their just desserts for that ;)

[RB TexLa]

3. So you are agreeing with them

I see

[havocmom]

10. No, I agree that it's fun fodder to give (with tongue in cheek) back

and I posted a couple quips in that thread myself. Are you the monitor of pre-weekend fun around here?

Wonder if you see at all

[abluelady]

4. I Agree With You

The GOP has made "sex" and "marriage" and "family values" THE issue. So what the leader of the GOP damn sure is our business. This "Do as I say not as I do" can't be allowed.

[rock]

17. And I agree with you

It's already settled that this is a political issue.

[JuniperLea]

35. Well. Now that you put it that way...

You are right. BushCo slammed Clinton when they said they were going to bring honor and dignity back to the WH... and they have made the whole sanctity of marriage and family values deal a mainstay of their platform.

They deserve what they get. Yep. I may have just changed my mind... this IS our business!

Thanks, abluelady!

:toast:

[abluelady]

39. Your Welcome. eom

[spanone]

5. Yes, the presdents life-wife is our business. As was Clinton's.

When you are in public office or just 'in the public' your life is fair game. It's part of the price you have to pay, fortunately or unfortunately.

[htuttle]

6. The Decider makes his decisions from his gut

He appears to use no process, no study, and no precedent in his decidering.

It stands to reason that it's important to know what is going on in his gut to get an idea about what he's going to decide next.

I don't care to know what his favorite color is, but I do care to know whether he is highly distracted by inner turmoil, since one of his bad moods today might lead to a foreign war tomorrow.

[Sugar Smack]

16. His gut, eh?

Sorry, I could NOT resist.:D

[htuttle]

18. ...And sometimes somewhat lower than that.

Apparently.

[Sugar Smack]

44. ACK!!!

:o

[jeff30997]

7. I don't care about Chimpanzees sex lives.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

8. My Mama says "What goes around comes around."

To the GOP: You asked for it.

[bdamomma]

20. boy I am waiting for that saying to come true.

[LSK]

9. its not our business, but why should they get a free pass

Especially after what they did to Bill and Hillary??

Let them get a taste of their own medicine.

Personally I could care less.

[havocmom]

13. And they have been doing it AGAIN to Bill & Hillary THIS WEEK!

So, yeah, I guess they keep putting it on the table = it works both ways.

[ronnykmarshall]

21. If they can dish it out .........

If this is true that Pickles and Chump are splitsville ..... let's see the freeps open their traps and say "it's a family matter".

Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

[Sugar Smack]

22. .

:wow: :loveya: :hug: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: Like I said, you're the CAT'S PROUD ASS!:rofl:

[ronnykmarshall]

23. I love that saying!

:loveya:

[Sugar Smack]

28. OMG! Hon, that's what I'm calling my website!

It'll have an X as its logo. And you know I love you but don't you think Mary's lip print should be a little thinner and less succulent-looking? On your ass, I mean.

:rofl: :hug:

[JuniperLea]

37. Exactly!

They better not try to spin this by saying it's none of our business... the comeback is just to fresh, and handy!

[Lerkfish]

11. better answer: I don't really care, personally, but republicans have not

hesitated in "taking it to the mattresses", so I don't know why it should be an issue for democrats ONLY.

Good for the goose, good for the gander, if they want to impeach because of a blue-stained dress, I don't understand why it's off limits for democrats to have the same scrutiny of republicans.


but as for me, I didn't really care if Clinton got a blowjob from the swedish bikini team every thursday, I wasn't voting for his celibacy or his marital fidelity.

I don't care, but I'm also not down on people who want to make it their business.

[porphyrian]

12. I reject the premise of the survey.

While public figures are entitled to some privacy, matters which affect the mental stability of our Commander in Chief are absolutely our business, especially when he's prone to act in spite of public opinion anyway. He's not just holding the highest elected (yeah, I know) position in our government, but he has the power to start wars, thanks to Congress, and has shown that he will lie to all of us to do so. Marital problems don't turn off when you clock in for work. They affect you and your decision-making the entire time you're experiencing them.

Is it our business what happens in their personal life after 2008? No. Was it our business before 2000? No. However, it absolutely IS our business now, and your survey oversimplifies the reality.

[Sugar Smack]

14. Keep MY mouth shut? Never.

I will forever scream from the rooftops and call those in power on their hypocrisy. On top of the obvious evils of the Bush Administration, his shrinking base needs to be aware of the fact that he doesn't stand for what they do. Clinton was raked over the coals; the Bush family is fair game. There is little to no humanity to these people and if we want to vent, speculate, poke fun and point fingers back at these caricatures, it's our right to do so.

PS- I'm probably responsible for half the responses in that thread, and it's the most fun I've had all day.

:hi:

[pepperbear]

15. It is none of our business.....

until he LIES about having extramarital sex.

[bdamomma]

19. No but it's fun to speculate.

but on the another hand he can spy on us illegally why not be curious to what is going on between george and pickles.

[Ioo]

24. That is it, We should Impeach him!!!

I mean shitting ont he constitution is okay, but unhappy marrage, IMPREACH. Almost as bad as cheating on your wife.

[dogday]

25. If Bill and Hillary are fair game to the NYT

I would think the President and his martial problems merit some talk..


How can one talk of the sanctity of marriage, when one's own marriage is falling apart.....

[RB TexLa]

26. So you are saying

we won't hear from or see any posts about this from anyone that is divorced or has had any problems in their marriage?

[dogday]

27. I don't think that is what I am saying, but

I am not sure what you are saying... I am saying how the right and the President are always talking about the sanctity of marriage, when their own marriages are in trouble...

[LSK]

29. ok, did you FORGET the whole late 90s???

You know that whole IMPEACHMENT fiasco???

Do you know how much the right uses that to paint themselves as the party of family values??

Do you know HOW MANY VOTES are stolen based on this issue??

[RB TexLa]

30. No I havn't, I didn't think what was going on with the Clintons was

my business either, no way it could have been.

[LSK]

31. in a perfect world, it is none of our business

However, after what happened to Clinton in the 90s, the Republicans use it as a way to mislead voters and therefore it is our business even if we do not like it.

[Sugar Smack]

47. Are you seriously asking people to be SENSITIVE about Bush?

I just want to be clear on this. Are you?

[treestar]

32. It isn't but it sure is curious why the media and Rushbo and the

rest of the family values crowd aren't more concerned.

:smoke:

[SmokingJacket]

33. Hey, at this point, it's ALL our business.

He listened to our calls! Payback!

[JuniperLea]

34. No, but you reap what you sow

Not my business, and frankly, I don't want to even think of W and sex in the same synapse! That's... just... EW!!!

Clinton's sexcapades were none of our business either. He should have refused to talk about it. He was busted for lying, not cheating.

I'll not condemn anyone for poking their nose in W's business, and he has the GOP to thank for that.


Karma happens, who am I to judge Karma?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

36. Where's The "Who Gives A Shit. Let Em Talk About It If They Want" Option?

Who really cares if it is or isn't anyone's business. It is fascinating story regardless, and if DU'ers want to speculate and talk about it then who really gives a frog's fat ass? It isn't a matter of being their business, it is merely a matter of whether they find the topic interesting enough to discuss. Since they do, then let em. Just don't read the threads if you don't care. No harm to anyone.

[Lerkfish]

50. yeah, I was looking for that one, too.

and there should be one that says "don't you find it odd when people are concerned about offending Bush?"

[Swamp Rat]

38. Yes, ever since the precedent was set by the Clinton impeachment

We should be able to scrutinize EVERY private aspect of Bushler's life. Their most private secrets should be made public and held against them in the court of public opinion and then in Congress.



After all, THEY are spying on OUR private lives!

[conflictgirl]

40. It's no different than any other "celebrity" gossip

I mean, if this were a site focused largely on hatred of Jessica Simpson, a good number of people would've been gleefully discussing her fights with her husband and their later divorce.

I personally don't care either way about this story, though it wouldn't surprise me if Smirky and Pickles have a sham marriage since everything else about the man seems to be a sham too.

It probably isn't our business, but interest in gossip has existed as long as there have been societies. With the celebrity gossip being such a big pastime now, why should the president be exempt?

[PWRinNY]

41. Sure! If he's getting bj's we get to impeach!

That makes it our business.

[Vidar]

42. After what they did to Clinton, hell yes!

[smokey nj]

43. If taxpayer money is funding her alleged stay at.....

the Mayflower Hotel it is our business.

[upi402]

45. Party boy has the nuke football.

Besides, Republicans really really REALLY hate their own medicine. Remember what they did to the Clintons? I will never forget, and now have decided to never forgive Republicans.

[devilgrrl]

46. It's our business if it exclusively involves Dems & Bill Clinton...

where have you been?

[Sugar Smack]

48. .

:applause:

[NMMNG]

49. Given all of the consideration * and company give to

the privacy of American citizens, part of me wants to say he shouldn't expect any privacy of his own. He should expect every detail of his life to be open to the public.

However my actual opinion for anybody's personal life is that it's nobody's business unless they choose to share the details.

[Zynx]

51. No. It really isn't. Republicans are voyeurs, not us.

[berni_mccoy]

52. HEY! Republicans ARE MAKING HER FAIR GAME by using her for CAMPAIGNS

They want to trot her out as a reason to VOTE for THEM.

And WHAT FOR? She is the FIRST LADY. She does not make policy. She does not write or veto laws. She does not make judgements about laws.

They are RELYING ON HER PERSONALITY AND STANCE AS A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN WITH MORAL VALUES.

If she becomes ANOTHER referrendum on Bush's LACK OF MORALITY, then I say HELL YES, her personal life is FAIR GAME.