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lovmuffin -> RE: How will the left react, if Obama loses? (11/5/2012 9:22:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Aswad
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ORIGINAL: lovmuffin
I think the whole affair was sleazy.
Perhaps. I'm fine with sleazy, per se.
The gay guy in charge of the Conservative Party here back home can get head from his hubby in the office as much as he likes for all I care, so long as he doesn't leave any stains on any office furniture the state paid for. I would be equally fine with him getting it from a sex worker, so long as the sex worker is getting the agreed-upon payment. His hubby might mind, but that's between the two of them (I don't know what kind of marriage they have, and so I can't assess the degree to which he's doing anything wrong, if at all).
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The fact that he was fooling around on his wife was as bad as lying under oath.
Hardly. The former is a personal issue that may be indicative of poor character, but we don't know that it is, as we're not parties to their marriage. The latter, by contrast, is a public issue, as he was in a public office, lying to the public from that position, and then later lying under oath (strictly speaking, he did not lie, but for practical purposes he did).
The former also bears keeping in mind that Hillary has stood by him throughout, and that she writes the whole thing off as foul play by the political right. This speaks to the notion that any related issues in their marriage is, in this sense, resolved to her satisfaction. Which isn't a very strange thing, considering they're both reasonable adults.
So, no, those two aspects aren't even remotely comparable.
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Though I don't think it rose to the level of impeachment.
It shouldn't have, at least.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
" Indicative of poor character", Thats what I should have posted. exactly. And you're right, his philandering doesn't rise to the level of lying under oath.
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