How could anyone Vote for Hilary C when she stood by a cheating husband?

Question

The Public humilitation of the announcement of a stained garment would have led me to divorce him. I guess I dont want to be a first Lady.

Answer 1

There are other reasons not to vote for Hillary but I do not believe that is one of them.  Every person has to make his or her own decision about a personal situation like hers and no one outside that situation really is in a position to judge the 'rightness' or 'wrongness' of her decision.  I would have respected her decision no matter which decision she made.  

Answer 2

I fail to understand why Hillary should be punished for her husband's actions. He is the one that cheated, not her. So if the public feels she should get the vote, then great. But it doesn't make sense for her to be denied the votes for Bill's activities.

Answer 3

Actually, although it doesn't seem to be the popular position, I'm with you on this.

It speaks volumes about her character, her naked ambition, and her willingness to compromise fundamental values for political gain.

I think it would have made a much stronger statement to women everywhere (and men too for that matter) to make a stand that showed she had an unflinching commitment to what is right, even when that was so so hard to do.

Answer 4

Its a personal matter between husband and wife and noone

business. You or I wasn't hurt in any matter and besides it

in the past which needs to be drop by now.  

Answer 5

You must be mad for divorce, it seems they all have their flings.

McCain was the cheater in his first marriage, according to his own autobiography, by your lights isn't the man who actually cheated worse than the woman who tries to keep her family together?

How could any one think of voting for a man who divorced his first two wives for a third? Like Giuliani or Gingrich?

Taking your marriage vows seriously isn't bad, cheating is, Bill was wrong, so was Rudy, Newt, Larry, Vitter etc.

I could vote for Hillary, she didn't cheat.

I might have trouble with those other guys though.

And we have already had a divorced man in the White House, courtesy of Ronald Reagan.  So many are divorced in politics that its not even a red flag, let alone a deal breaker.

Hillary didn't have to stay with him for that reason.

According to your last edit, you seem to think that Hillary couldn't have been firm with terrorists because she didn't kick her husband and the father of her daughter to the curb.

Maybe you think families are as disposable as that dress should have been, maybe you think love counts for little unless its goes smoothly,  whatever.  Men have dealt with their wives and children with a far softer heart than they have dealt with enemies of their countries.  I have no problem understanding any one, male or female who can do that.

Maybe in a few years  you will too.

Answer 6

well yeah.......she's WEAK AS...

.PLUS she just stayed with him for money & power..........

plus some people dont have normal feelings ..eh

i would have walked out on him (NO, KICKED HIM OUT)  as soon as i realized he was having s*x with a young woman, eeewwwww...

EDIT..........OMG....some of these women think they need to stand by a CHEATING MAN.........OMG, it was not just one mishap, that eh...sometimes you may forgive (but not me) BUT  it was OVER &OVER  women need to realize CHEATERS are LIARS & not to be trusted.OMG

Answer 7

"she approved of it I was for political grain in her mind political gain is more important than what your spouse does .she proved and first lady of the nation been .the rest of the women as supporter must think it's OK to .so does that mean their husbands do something on the side it's OK .

Answer 8

Until you are faced with such a thing as infidelity,  you have no idea what you will do and how you will react.

If you can work it out,  and you both want to,  you should stand by an unfaithful husband.

Answer 9

Grasping at straws now, are we?  

Answer 10

Because her husband was bad, doesn't mean she is.  Some people will see it as a sign of strength that she was able to forgive him.    

Answer 11

It was always a power marriage and she is a politician with a proven record in her own right.  

Answer 12

It is called marriage.  

Answer 13

He wasn't cheating he was only giving on the job training!!!!

Answer 14

wht not ,maybe they were sharing

Answer 15

For that very reason!A marriage is like your home and children you don't throw them away because you don't like them anymore.You stand by your commitment and make the best of it and work out the problems.Find a wat to make that adversary work for you and move on.Only fools live in the past.She has stood by this great country when no one was nice to her,moved on to do more work and is still standing tall!She is a great Lady who would of made a great President! She has been to h**l and survived it to fight another day.Most men by now would be drunks living on the streets.What does that say to you? Room for improvement in your life? She would fight for you same as me,and not judge.

Answer 16

I'm an Obama supporter, but her actions, in my view, shows that she takes her vows seriously, and that shows a strong character.



Some say she stayed because it was her plan to run for the office of president, so she "forgave" Bill, but I don't think so. No matter how famous or popular you are, when you get emotionally hurt, you get emotionally hurt. She is human, and apparently one human that took her vows seriously.

If Obama had lost the primaries, I would have no problem supporting Hillary, because she has good plans and ideas.

Answer 17

Excuse me?

The fact that she stood by her cheating husband only shows that she

"responds" to problems and does not "react" to them.

If she were a lesser person, she would have hit him in the head with a frying pan, and divorced him.

Since she is smart she looked at the problem with consideration for the future of her family and for her responsibilities.

She is an intelligent individual who deals well with misfortune and pain.

Many women experience this kind of pain in life, maybe even you will.

You may do well to learn from her.

Answer 18

The marriage is between Hillary and Bill and even though I'm no Clinton supporter, fact of the matter is people make choices for themselves and for their families that are really not a matter of political debate.  While I'd like to think I would not ever tolerate a cheating spouse, I honestly don't know what I would do if I was in that situation.  Hopefully, I'll never find out.

Answer 19

Yea how could these women's rights groups and lesbians back a weak woman. Hillary stayed with him because she wanted to stay in politics how pathetic. How is anyone going to vote for a weak woman whom needs to make man decisions.

I can see how the white house would have worked....

"Hillary, we need to do something about China drilling oil on our coast." "OK, but I gotta ask my husband first"

Answer 20

The same way that someone  who could vote John McCain who cheated on his 1st wife.

Answer 21

I personally see the relevance to her candidacy in the following train of thought:

Hillary wanted to believe her husband wasn't cheating and she believed him when he said, to the TV cameras and therefore to the whole world, "I am not having sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky."  

Now Bill Clinton's parsing of words re: what exactly constitutes sexual relations was great fodder for the late night comedians, but back to the point here, Hillary believed there was nothing to the story.

So why wouldn't she fall for some total BS from a world leader who might deceive her, playing on her feminine weaknesses?  I think it's a possibility.  I am surprised that this issue never came up during her campaign, that she showed tremendous lack of judgment in at least one serious matter where her heart was involved.

That she forgave him and wanted to stay in the marriage for whatever reasons is certainly her private affair, except for the conclusions one might draw upon the qualities one might desire in the President of the world's only current superpower.

Answer 22

She did it for her career. No one is going to vote for a divorced woman.

I wouldn't say that someone not leaving a cheating partner is necessarily a bad thing.  

Answer 23

I thought standing by your man equates to strong family values.