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A picture showed up on my Facebook feed with the caption: No one blamed Jackie for what Jack did.<\/p>\n

Hmm. Interesting, yes?<\/p>\n

Now we’re getting a lot of blame being tossed around at the wife of another president.<\/p>\n

Times really have changed.<\/p>\n

President John F. Kennedy was a seriously unfaithful husband. During the time he was president — from January 1961 until November 1963 — his transgressions went unreported by the media that knew about it, but kept it secret through an understanding: If it doesn’t affect his performance as president, it doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n

Years later, long after JFK had been buried and his wife had remarried, the world knew of what he had done behind his wife’s back.<\/p>\n

Have we blamed Jackie for what the president did?<\/p>\n

No. Today, the calculus is different.<\/p>\n

Republican candidate for president Donald J. Trump is now blaming Hillary Rodham Clinton for being an “enabler.” That’s a reason to vote against her for president, said Trump. Why? Because she was mean to other women who accused her husband, Bill Clinton, of being unfaithful to her.<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives impeached President Clinton for lying under oath about his relationship with a young White House intern. The Senate acquitted him in the trail that ensued.<\/p>\n

Does any of that have an impact on how Hillary Rodham Clinton would govern the country if she’s elected president this fall? No.<\/p>\n

In fact, I saw another social media post that suggested that Hillary Clinton’s response to her husband’s transgression should be saluted<\/em>, not condemned. The Clinton family stayed together. They worked through their anger and heartbreak.<\/p>\n

Of course, none of us knows what they have said to each other in private. Nor should<\/em> we know. It’s their business exclusively.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most ironic twist of all in this game of blaming a political spouse for her husband’s behavior is the reputation of the individual who’s leveling the blame.<\/p>\n

Given his own highly publicized history of marital infidelity, Donald Trump has no standing — zero!<\/em> — to challenge the moral rectitude of any other human being in public life.<\/p>\n\n

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A picture showed up on my Facebook feed with the caption: No one blamed Jackie for what Jack did. Hmm. Interesting, yes? Now we’re getting a lot of blame being tossed around at the wife of another president. Times really have changed. President John F. Kennedy was a seriously unfaithful husband. During the time he … Continue reading When did political spouses deserve the blame?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[631,1035,1424,2139,6208,2460],"class_list":["post-14540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bill-clinton","tag-clinton-impeachment","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-jackie-kennedy","tag-jfk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14544,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions\/14544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}