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If you're going to tout yourself as the party of family values, and promote abstinence-only education teaching teens that sex is for marriage only, then you just made your personal life fair game. Not because I care what you do with whom, but because I care if you are a ginormous hypocrite.
Are there any allegations that Senator Clinton has committed any marital infidelities? While one should be judged by the company one keeps, being cheated on is not the same moral failing as cheating on your spouse. They should not be considered the same thing.
Brings to mind the old Mr. Moral Majority character from Bloom County. The guy would siddle up to a purdy young thang on a park bench, try to cop a feel and berate her for "tempting" him when she smacked him. He's alive, well and apparently still copping feels all over Washington.
Since when is being cheated on a moral failing? Sure, maybe the cuckold was doing something wrong in the marriage that motivated the other person to cheat, or maybe the cuckold exercised bad judgment when choosing a life partner, but generally speaking, the fact that one has been cheated on is not generally viewed as a character flaw. Whether one should stay with a cheating spouse is a really personal decision--some people think you should bolt at the first infidelity, no exceptions, others think that it depends on the situation, some people stay in marriages where their spouse regularly cheats on them for a variety of reasons: the sake of the children, religious objections to divorce, etc. I don't judge Hillary Clinton because her husband cheated on her--I judge her for supporting the flag burning amendment, but that's a whole 'nother ball of wax.
Quite frankly, I think we'd all be better off if the media would just stop reporting about the sex lives of politicians. Unless the politicians do something to make it of justifiable public interest--criminal behavior, or engaging in behavior contrary to public statements they have made about the subject (i.e., hypocrisy)--I really don't think it should be taking up column space that could be better spent engaging in actual reporting and *gasp* real analysis of issues facing voters. The fact that the NYT is no better than a supermarket tabloid is really, really, really sad--the Gray Lady needs to get out of the gutter.
It depends on which side of the tracks he came from.