Originally Posted by tsurara

Our business?

Yes. They're our leaders... and if they're doing things to make us look like idiots in the eyes of the world or compromise our trust in them, we should absolutely know.

The question is: whether certain sorts of private matters have any impact on their ability to lead and we aren't making ourselves look foolish by keeping them front and center 24-7 for months at a time and fighting over it amongst ourselves.

If the president did drugs in highschool -- it probably doesn't matter. If he's cheating on his wife -- it sucks, but ditto. If he's sending smarmy emails to male interns -- whatever.

BUT if he's laundering money, taking bribes or lying to us: yeah... I think it matters and I want to know.

Sort of a Clinton vs. Nixon situation ^^;