The force awakens: Bill Clinton is days away from taking major public role in Hillary campaign. ("Should Bernie Worry?")

We are entitled to our opinions on the subject and my opinion was essentially that it is none of our business how they maintain their relationship. Also, whether Bill Clinton deserves to be in the white house again is irrelevant to me, however I could see someone arguing that he might have violated an employer-employee relationship when he had his affair and at best demonstrated poor judgement and at worst used a position of authority and privilege to initiated an affair with an employee, but that is where it ends for me as Monica Lewinsky has said the affair was consensual. I don't believe there should have even been a public debate about what two consenting adults do in private as long as neither had a problem with consenting. Even if he is the president not everything he does in his office is the business of the public.

I am going to preference this by stating that I almost don't want to type what I'm about to type because what you believe is what you believe and who really cares what I think about that, but I don't understand how you can claim you aren't making a judgement on the type of relationship they are in. Your original reasoning for her being a fraud (my word not yours) of a feminist is "The fact that Hillary stayed with him" and "She stayed with him for the political power." Yes, these are opinions that you are entitled to have, but they are also judgments on her actions (staying with him) and the type of relationship they have (for political power). Maybe she stayed with him because she didn't want to let one affair come in between them and their relationship? You said you would be embarrassed, fair enough, but why should she have to be embarrassed? Maybe their relationship is beyond what traditional America thinks of a relationship, but I don't think it is really much of America's business and I imagine Bernie wouldn't either. I don't think her feminist credentials should be based on how successful her marriage is (seems successful to me).

You might have other reason for saying why you believe she is a fraud (once again my word, not yours) feminist and that is fine and I might even agree depending on the evidence, but I believe her marriage is irrelevant to that because we don't have the ability to see what their type of relationship they are in.

Either way, thank you for the reply.

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