COLUMN: 03-26-2008

As much as the Clintons would like it to be true, Chelsea's proclamation that the Lewinsky affair is "none of your business" is simply not true. Ignoring the sexual harassment part of the issue (for a moment anyway), personal immorality is part of a personal's overall moral character and someone who is immoral in their personal life should be judged as immoral by the public when deciding how to vote. Even if we buy their spin that personal morality has nothing to do with public office, let's not forget that President Clinton lied about his affair with his employee Monica Lewinsky when testifying in a sexual harassment lawsuit by a former employee Paula Jones. In establishing a long term pattern of abuse of power when dealing with sexual propositioning of employees, the plaintiffs were very justified in their actions and Senator Clinton's lies at the time about being the target of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" were proven to be completely untrue. It's sad to see that the Clinton's have passed on their lack of morality to the next generation of their family and we can only hope that it's not passed on to the next generation of Americans as a whole.