Shouldn’t the president of the US be more capable of making rational decisions than a starry-eyed young intern? Isn’t that why we elected him?
We elected him to make rational decisions about sex?
Right. But if Bill wasn’t president, or MMY head of an organization that attracted many young people, or Mick Jagger lead singer of the Rolling Stones, it’s unlikely any of them would have had all the women they did.
I'll bet you anything both Bill and Mick had more women than they knew what to do with before they became famous.
Their fame and power made them chick magnets. It may be OK for rock stars to take advantage of that – it doesn’t compromise their ability to do their job. But in the other instances it does. It was their choice, but I don’t see why their “status” should place them above, at the very least, having people discuss the appropriateness of their actions.
It shouldn't, of course, and that is the whole point I'm trying to make (albeit probably not very well--just got back from the lake with my kids.) Status is usually in the eyes of the beholder. Since I never looked upon MMY as my guru, I never had the emotional investment you and a number of others do, hence the potential for disappointment was much less.
I still wonder, though, why his deceptions in this area are given so much more attention than all the financial as well as other types of shenanigans the TMO has routinely engaged in.
