There's That Word Again... Distraction

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"Is It Fair To Ask Chelsea Clinton About Lewinsky?"

Chelsea Clinton was asked by a college student reporter at Butler University if the "Monica Lewinski affair hurt her mother's credibility". (No, her mother can do that all by herself... Did anybody dodge any sniper fire at lunch today?) Chelsea's response was, "Wow, you're the first person in like 70 campuses that has brought that up and personally, it's none of your business."

Touche' Chelsea! Not only is it not anyone's business, that is sooooo yesterday's scandal/distraction. There's that word again... distraction. I can see that Americans like a lot of nonsense. Housing foreclosures, sky rocketing gas prices, unemployment, and war are just too heavy to deal with... so, let's talk about sex, the governor of New York, the recently ex-governor of New York, the mayor of Detroit, the ex-governor of New Jersey, and what have you.

Since when did Americans become Gladys Kravitz? (Remember her... the next door neighbor of Darin and Samantha on Bewitched who was always looking in their windows expecting to see something?) Why do we care who had sex with who? Why do we go on and on about this type of stuff ad nauseum, when so many other issues need to be addressed and in a hurry? I know, I have already wasted two good blog posts in a row on this stuff... it shows where my head is at this week too. The French president has, in his own words, had "several affairs" and this is no big deal over there. But over here, it obviously is a big deal. The thing is... it was Obama's pastor last week and Hillary was misquoted or she lied or whatever this week... and, in between, two governors have had sex outside of their marriage.

When my grandson is 21 years old, trying to pay his student loans, can't afford to get a place of his own, and gets drafted to fight in Iraq (where we will still be when he's 21), I'm going to tell him that we could have dealt with those problems when he was two but, we were trying to find out about the governor of New York's call girls, a former president's mistress, and why a presidential candidate's pastor said such naughty things in church. I mean, who had the time to deal with anything else, right?