The President's Presence

Blindly following our nation's leaders is never a good idea, obviously.  However, "What happens in the White House should stay in the White House", or something to that effect, can become good policy, and beneficial to our nation's success.

For instance, in the good old days when a President, etc., did something naughty, the Secret Service (or whoever) would "clean up" the mess.

In today's media-charged internet world, however, every single thing is reported down the the most minute detail.  When President Clinton played, uh...hide-and-go-suck with Ms. Lewinsky, the media spared us nothing of the gory story.

OK, now it's time to look at the facts:

1. Bill Clinton is a man (so I hear), and men tend to think with their little head.
2. President Clinton is also a person, and not just a figurehead and one of our country's more embarassing Presidents.
3. People, by our very nature, make mistakes (yes, you too).
4. Most "normal" people aren't dragged up and down shards of broken glass for the delight of the masses (and the profit of the media).

The point I am trying to make is this - we wasted how many man-hours and tax dollars just to ridicule our country's elected leader and the bimbo dumb enough to get caught up in it all?  We probably don't want to know the answer to that question.

Honestly, it would have been better to make the problem "just go away".  No, I don't mean in a Sopranos sort of way, but our nation and the people therein really did not need to know about any of it.

It undermines the entire system of government - a government that definitely needs no additional undermining.  Besides, by the time we found out about it, it was already over.  That is obviously a load of shit that cannot be put back into the horse (isn't that cruelty to animals anyway?).

We need, as bad as can be, to be able to trust and put our faith in, our President.  I'm sorry, but there it is.  Anything else weakens our great country and serves no useful purpose.  It just lines the pockets of the mega-media empire that already sucks as much cash out of us as they can.

Take a map of your neighborhood and draw a wide circle around your house.  I bet that the vast majority of you cannot place a finger on every single house on, in, or around the circle that does not have a cheating partner in it, even if you don't even know about it.  Hell, most of you have either experienced it and/or committed it.

Does this excuse the President, etc., and give them a golden "Get Out Of Jail Free" card?  No way.  But, weighing one evil against another, I'd much, much rather have a strong nation I can believe in than read some tabloid story about who stained whose dress with what in the White House.

Is this post solely about President Clinton?  Not by a long shot...he is just easier to pick on than other Presidents since his "affairs" were more recent than most.  I personally have nothing against the guy, the exact opposite in fact.  He did a great many things to help the USA, many of which were never even noticed by most citizens.

If you are really that bored, go out and do something good for your country; help the homeless, pick up litter, shave a dog for humanity, whatever.  Either quit bitching, or make a difference yourself.  Worry more about what the President is doing to our taxes and less about what they're doing to their staff.