in so much as it indicates how she might make decisions, choices and interact with others. It is indicative of her state of mind. Geez. I knew I was taking a risk talking about this. However, if she is talking about Baracks relationships as if they matter to how he might act as President, it opens this as a fair line of discussion.

if he weren't such an adamant proponent of anti-gay legislation. I understand that you are mocking the diarist, but I think you misunderstood the diarist. No one cares about a politicians marriage, a private affair, until it bleeds over into the public realm, where it becomes our concern.  That was my interpretation of the diary. I could be wrong.

But the Monica Lewinsky issue should not be off limits anyway because of the way Hillary Clinton herself alludes to it as shaping her character and making her stronger. Every time she says things like "Everyone knows I've lead a hard life, blah, blah, blah..." So she's allowed to talk about it positively, but we can't criticize her actions and the apparent hypocrisy of her recent actions in comparison. It's akin to her claiming all the good in the Clinton WH while disassociating herself from all the bad.