This is the inevitable problem with Hillary. And frankly unlike a couple sermons by Rev Wright this one won't go away. Once the Republicans can start reminding voters about the whole Monica-mess it's over. Hillary won't be able to claim she is "experienced" because of her time in the White House without half the audience laughing. Bill will be targeted, Monica will be brought back for a speaking tour, hundreds of YouTube videos - and an occassional porn re-enactment.

It won't go away and the publishing of her daytimer shows that it just sits there - always and forever. So in the debate when they ask her "what did you know and when did you know it and where exactly were you in the house when your husband was banging his intern?"

Kiss this election good bye.

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The republicans in the white house when the wars started say, "so what". Countless dead people later and all anyone wants to hear about is Bill and Monica. The Dems are giving away the election. This crap is spoon fed to us by the media and until we demand that they put a stop to it we might as well vote for McCain. His followers don't care what's in his past. And it's not all about being a hero. Time to pay attention. Anna

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Cheney's missing records and emails? How about Obama's missing stated senate records? Thank you for showing how delirious the media is when it comes to what matters.

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No woman keeps a dress that has semen from a married man on it as a trophy. Not one woman! But, in the State of New York, if you want a divorce where you walk away with all the money and goodies, you need physical proof of adultery, such as video, photos, or hard physical evidence with provable DNA. Of course, Hillary was in the White House, she needed to secure the dress, and would bet that after getting off her knees, Monica made a beeline to the First Lady's office. Hillary was planning on a divorce in New York, quietly in some small town where it would not be too noticed, and so enter Monica.

Has it struck no one as odd that THE dress shows up to refute Billy's testimony just as the investigation is about to go back to Whitewater and from someone who would under normal circumstances not have any access to Monica's wardrobe? Hillary bought and paid for that dress, then had to give it up to insure her immunity in Whitewater!

Come on, folks, wake up to this woman! She was a manipulator in Arkansas, she was a manipulator in the White House, and she is manipulating the Democratic Party now. She wants the Presidential salary and retirement benefits for herself so that in 4 or 8 years she can do a 50-50 split and still have the goodies and money in New York. She is playing this country and its citizens as patsies because she is a lousy wife, a lousy Senator, and he is a lousy husband.

How do I know? I was once the mistress of a married man and I have been the wife who was cheated on. I understand all too well how women in both positions think, and I know how New York divorce laws work having seen them in action with my husband and his ex-wife.

Piece of advice, Mrs. Clinton - move to Watertown, Jefferson County, NY; hire a lawyer named Lisa Proven, and you can walk away with everything but his shorts and violate the terms of your divorce decree whenever you want and get away with it. They are corrupt in Jefferson County to the point where attorneys from other counties will not try a divorce case against Lisa Proven in that county because as they tell potential clients - you will spend more in contempt of court hearings than in anything you might actually have to pay! So give up your candidacy and move to Watertown, then you can undo the damage that giving up that dress actually cost you, and not at the expense of the American people and the Democratic Party.

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The Clintons have always had a touch of the zombies about them: unkillable, they move relentlessly forward, propelled by a bloodlust for Republicans or uppity Democrats who dare to question their supremacy. You can’t escape; you can’t hide; and you can’t win.

Now all this may seem a little melodramatic. Perhaps it is. I’m not kidding. I woke up in a cold sweat early last Wednesday. There have been moments this past week when I have felt physically ill at the thought of that pair returning to power.

Why? I have had to write several columns in this space over the years acknowledging that the substantive legacy of the Clinton administration (with a lot of assist from Newt Gingrich) was a perfectly respectable one: welfare reform, fiscal sanity, prudent foreign policy, leaner government. But remembering the day-to-day psychodramas of those years still floods my frontal cortex with waves of loathing and anxiety. The further away you are from them, the easier it is to think they’re fine. Up close they are an intolerable, endless, soul-sapping soap opera.

The media are marvelling at the Clintons’ several near-death political experiences in this campaign. Hasn’t it occurred to them how creepily familiar all this is? The Clintons live off psychodrama. They both love to push themselves to the brink of catastrophe and then accomplish the last-minute, nail-biting self-rescue. Before too long the entire story becomes about them, their ability to triumph through crisis, even though the crises are so often manufactured by themselves. That is what last week brought back for me. The 1990s – with a war on.

Remember: Bill Clinton could have easily settled the Paula Jones lawsuit years before he put the entire country through the wringer (Jones sued Clinton for sexual harassment alleged to have occurred while he was governor of Arkansas).

Recall: Hillary Clinton could have killed what turned out to be the White-water nonstory at the very outset by disclosing everything she could (the scandal centred on a controversial Arkansas property deal).

Consider: the Clintons could have prepared for primaries and caucuses after February 5 – so-called Super Tuesday, when 24 states held their presidential nomination vote – as any careful candidate would. They chose not to do any of these things. Not because they are incompetent. But because they live to risk.

Politics is also their life. They know nothing else. Most halfway normal people in politics could at some point walk away. Reagan seemed happy to. Not the Clintons. In the words of the American-based British writer Christo-pher Hitchens, these are the kind of people who never want the meeting to end. Hillary Clinton will never concede the race so long as there is even the faintest chance that she can somehow win.

They endure all sorts of humiliation – remember the taped Clinton deposition in the Ken Starr investigation (in which Clinton admitted to the inquiry headed by the far-right prosecutor that he had had an “improper physical relationship” with Monica Lewinsky)? Hillary’s dismissal of the Lewinsky matter as an invention of the right-wing conspiracy? – because they know no other way to live. They have been thinking of this moment since they were in college and being a senator or an ex-president or having two terms in the White House are not sufficient to satiate their sense of entitlement. Even if they have to put their own party through a divisive, bitter, possibly fatal death match, they will never give up. Their country, their party . . . none of this matters compared with them.

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puts up with a chronically cheating hubby?

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