Bill Clinton's idea of an affair was like standing at a shooting galery and picking off anything that moved. There is the individual who may have an unhappy home life who develops a relationship that may last an extended period of time and involve a certain level of devotion and love.
I can't say that I approve of such things, but I do not believe all affairs stoop to the level of a known rapist and abuser of women.
Schroder's actions would have to be pretty bad indeed to come anywhere close to the evil Bill Clinton was involved in. I doubt he had someone sucking his lollipop while he was discussing military options on a long distance call to a government official.
Top line:
The Chancellor defends himself against ugly rumors.
Headline:
Schroeder marriage going to court.
This is the "Bild Zeitung"; sensational, large circulation, not afraid to air out the dirty laundry.
longjack
The accompanying "Bild Zeitung" article talks about Schroeder going to court to stop a newspaper from running articles that report marriage problems with the Schroeders The newspaper is the "Markische Oderzeitung", a local paper.
"Bild" also mentions Schroeder using the courts to stop newspapers from reporting that he was dying his hair. That occured last spring.
The gist of the newspaper articles Scroeder wants to stop now are that Schroeder and his wife have loud arguments, and that Schroeder does not sleep at home as often as would be expected.
HTH
longjack
Shocking! Shocking that Schroeder isn't having a affair with clintoon.
1. It violates the rule that private matters should be kept private. Here not only is Schroeder being embarrassed, as is the girl friend. But so is his wife. All three are victimized by scandal seeking. You may argue that Schroeder deserves it, but does his wife? And if she does, do his kids--if any--or anyone else in any of those peoples families? Does the public at large benefit from a perception that private matters are now public?
2. But yet more serious, in the case of Socialist theorists like Clinton and Schroeder, it is a distraction from their public misdeeds. When the House got on Clinton for lying in answer to a question which should not have been asked, for a variety of reasons, they actually diverted attention from impeachable misconduct in the Office of Commander in Chief. Clinton used the armed forces of the American people as a personal plaything, to advance his Leftwing social values--both sexual (homosexual issues and women in combat) and political (Haiti, Kosovo, an aspirin factory in Sudan, etc..) This is so infinitely more serious than his rather weird encounters with Monica--of which we would all be better off if we knew less, not more--that there is no comparison. (See President Clinton & The Abuse Of Power.)
Schroeder stands for a lot of really despicable things. He is undermining German Society in ways that frankly remind one of the earlier German Socialist Government under an Austrian emigre, who plunged Europe into a World War. People ought to be focused on what the bastard is doing to the public of his country, not what he does in his girl friend's bedroom!
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