It's None of Your Business, Except When It Is

***Political Viewpoint Blog Post***

I was never a huge Bill Clinton fan. His country-preacher oratory style turned me off. Did I think he could do the job? Yes. Did I think he did do the job? Yes. But personally, I couldn’t stand him to watch or listen to him.

When “The Scandal” hit during his presidency, and coming on the tails of previous allegations of sexual liaisons/assault accusations, I wasn’t shocked. I also wasn’t interested. That was for Hillary and Bill to sort out, and I didn’t need to know about it.

Until he lied. Lying from my president is unacceptable behavior. Under oath or not. It's the
9^th commandment in our current president’s favorite book.

Now I no longer cared about the privacy and marital aspects of it. I wanted to know why he thought he could lie to us, to the world. Like Caesar’s wife, presidents have to be above the rules that govern the rest of us. Like it or not, they are role models.

How simple it would have been, in retrospect, for Bill to have admitted his infidelities and put it down to being, literally, a dick head. Man up. Do the right thing. It would not have had nearly the life it took on had he only done the right thing in the beginning.

In Yogi Berra’s words, “It’s like déjà-vu, all over again.”

The latest on 45’s peccadilloes is the hush money paid to a porn star, the news of which broke on the Trump’s recent wedding anniversary. This was an affair during the early years of their marriage. In 2006, his son Barron was born. A few months later he was having an affair with a porn star.

It happened. She gave an interview years ago about the affair, before he was a political figure. The lawyer doesn’t deny paying her through a shell company right before the election. The lawyer denies there was an affair even though he won’t say why he gave her $130K. Smoke, fire. You know the saying. Connect the dots, people.

Melania doesn’t get vocal about the avalanche of infidelity/sexual assault accusations. Oh, she made a half-hearted stab at defense during the election cycle, but it was lame. He acted like a bad boy? That makes it okay? Do we want a 70+-year-old boy president?

This news article laid out the series of observed actions, expressions, and behaviors that seem to say the Trump marriage is in trouble. I’m sorry if that’s true. I believe in marriage and what it represents. I want their marriage to succeed. It’s her first. And since it’s his third, I would hope he would have learned from his previous failures.

I’m sad that this president seems not to and that his behaviors hurt others. Melania seems to be a bright woman who loves her child completely. Imagine not only her personal pain, but that of her son hearing these truths about his father. How can a child reconcile that kind of hurt inflicted on his mother?

So, we care about all this dirt. We care because of what it reveals about our president. Disgusting as his behaviors might be, the real concern we need to have is about the character of the man representing our beautiful county to the world. Liars don’t have credibility. His marriage is still none of our business and whatever problems they have they will work it out. Or not.

I am only concerned about character and the face of the presidency.

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