Monica Lewinsky is trending on Twitter. She is a brave young woman.

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160. I lived through the Lewinsky scandal and remember thinking at the time (and still thinking)

who the fuck cares? It's not our business who breaks their marriage vows. It's not our business if a young 20-something woman is starry-eyed and full of lust wanting to bag herself a Presidential married man. When this happened it was about politics. When it's trotted out, like now, it's about politics. No one who trots it out really cares about morals or the high ground or bravery... all they care about is scoring political points. Hell, it's happening right here in this thread.

For those talking about how scandalous it was for Bill Clinton, the President of the United States, to have an affair with an intern, turn over some historical rocks and realize that he isn't the first, and probably won't be the last, President to have had affairs with employees/interns/others while a sitting President. I can think of two others off the top of my head: Kennedy and Johnson both were known for their extra-marital activity while in office, after having left office. The difference was the decorum of politics back then... it was something that wasn't spoken about in the press because it wasn't the publics' business (and it still isn't).

As far as Clinton lying about the affair? If I were the type of person who had affairs, and was married, I'm sure I'd lie about it too. Imagine being a serial philanderer and having to admit to your wife, who has stuck by you, that once again, you had an affair? I'm sure the first thing about the situation that comes to mind is honesty. <= Sarcasm.

As far as Lewinsky goes, she was a grown ass woman and though she didn't have vows to maintain, I'd think a 20-something would know it's wrong to sleep with married people. Anyone who sleeps with a married person knows it's wrong. Just because they didn't take vows doesn't make them less culpable... it takes two to tango and Lewinsky wasn't without blame. That doesn't mean I believe she "deserved what she got" for being found out--I think I already established it was no ones business other than the involved parties--but had she not kept the blue dress, had she not confided in Tripp, she would have happily worked those 10 years, never had gone through the public shaming and wouldn't be a topic of conversation today. In this instance, I blame the "victim" a wee bit in this situation 'cause she was just plain ass stupid thinking she could "share" her affair with the President of the United States and it not get out to the public in some way.