Though I hate her, I had to watch

It seems that so many of these entries are about television, who knew I watched so much TV. I thought I only watched the "Golden Girls" and "Law and Order." Yesterday I watched Oprah. I really don't like Oprah, I think she's pandering and ridiculous. Once, years ago, I saw her do a show on table manners. At the time Oprah owned at least one restaurant. Playing dumb to her guest she exclaimed, "I don't know nothin' 'bout table manners!" I screamed "UNCLE TOM" and turned her off, vowing never to watch again. Yesterday, though, was special. Bill Clinton was on to hawk his new book, My Life. I bought the book today and will be reporting on it as I read. At 950 some pages, this might take a little while, even as fast as I read.

I know a lot of people didn't like Clinton and I can't say I agreed with all of his policies and decisions. I voted for him twice and I did so proudly. Like him or not you can't help but admit that he was a very charismatic fellow and that continued with his appearance on Oprah. I think I was mostly touched by how human he came across, how he took responsibility for his actions and made sense of the ridiculousness of his persecution. In talking about the time period surrounding his affair with Monica Lewinsky he pointed out that he was bombing Afghanistan, dealing with more lawsuits than any president in history (side note, and was never found to have done a single thing wrong despite the 70 million dollars spent by Ken Starr) and sleeping on the couch because his wife had thrown him out of the marital bed. Now, Clinton lied, to the grand jury, to his wife, to his daughter and to the American people. He lied about his affair and he lied about how he tried to not get caught. My question, then and now, is this; Why was he ever even asked about his affair? Whose business is it if he's having an affair except he and his wife? Bush managed to poo-poo a cocaine arrest, but Clinton gets a couple blowjobs and he needs to be run out of office? Please.

I didn't start writing this to defend Clinton. It was amazing to me to see our former President on television saying things that he was unable to say as President, being so human and taking responsibility for his actions. I think it meant so much to me (and I don't mind admitting to a few tears) because he offered so much to those of us who felt unwanted and untended to by the previous administrations, but also because of the lack of human ability of our current (gasp) leader.

Before you ask, yes I read "Living History," Hillary's book and I loved it as well, especially the portions where she spent massive amounts of her time furthering the rights of woman around the world.