More on Ensign/Clinton

Ensign Whacked Clinton For His Infidelities, Called Them “Embarrassing” For Country
Sam Stein
stein@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting From DC
June 16, 2009

Sen. John Ensign’s admission late Tuesday that he had an extramarital affair with a campaign staffer over the course of nine months doesn’t seem likely to cause the type of wall-to-wall coverage that similar marital slip-ups have in the past.

But it should, at the very least, re-open the longstanding debate over how much attention should be paid to a politician’s personal life. And when it comes to this topic, Ensign’s own record of denouncing the affairs and misconducts of other pols could come back to haunt him.

During the height of the scandal surrounding Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, the Nevada Republican denounced the president’s conduct as “an embarrassing moment for the country.”

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