MONICA LEWINSKY - AGAIN

So Monica Lewsinsky is in the news again.  You know, the young woman who flipped her blouse up so that womanizer Bill Clinton could see her bra strap that left him salivating.  Clinton survived his affair with her and being only the second president to be impeached, but Monica hasn't fared very well.  Didn't her mother ever tell her the "The woman always pays?" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Lewinsky)

What I would have done in a similar situation, I really don't know.  I have a saying that "Untested Virtue Is No Virtue At All,"  and I never had pretty young women come on to me.

I heard a large excerpt of what she said, and it was pretty good so far as it went.  She didn't say she regretted getting a President impeached and ruining the last years of his presidency.  But the acts themselves were not all that bad (Though what they did sounded ugly in print, apparently they never had intercourse.).  Her real sin was that she had to blab about her affair.  It used to be that women kept their mouths shut if they managed to have a affair with the President, but she just had to tell an enemy of the President.  Today is different, women tell.

I knew from the beginning that Clinton was a womanizer, but I thought he wanted to accomplish some things enough that he would keep his pants zipped.  In this I was wrong, it was like handing a recovering alcoholic a martini.  Irresistible.  And there were those other woman who couldn't forgive Hillary for not divorcing the SOB, though I suppose there were others who understood and who also had remained in a marriage in spite of infidelity.

At the time, there were others with Salvic names in the news, like Ted Kaczynski who didn't like modern technolgy and bombed technologists.  I put Lewinsky and Kaczynski in a poem called "the Balkenization Of America (http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-balkanization-of-america-poem.html).

For awhile it was lots of fun.  In case you have forgotten, for example there was Henry Hyde*, who led the impeachment hearing in the House, who had to admit to a multi-year "youthful indiscretion in his 40s" with a married woman.  And then there was Rep. Helen Chenowith of Idaho, a viscous critic of Presidnet Clinton's behavior, who admitted to a six-year affair with a married man ( "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it." ).**  Dan Burton had to admit to even fathering a child out of wedlock.***  Lastly, there was Rep. Bob Livingston incoming Speaker of the House who resigned even before he took office due to four known affairs, one within the last three or four years.**** 

*  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hyde
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Chenoweth-Hage
*** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Burton
**** http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/livingston121998.htm