# If Monica Lewinsky had been really hot... **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 10, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-monica-lewinsky-had-been-really-hot/343894 "2006-02-10T19:04:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-monica-lewinsky-had-been-really-hot/343894/61 "2006-02-13T11:08:44Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > I believe this to be true. However, President Clinton did himself no favors lying like he did, and then trying to defend the lie. I was very unimpressed with his thought processes. Yeah, no married man wants to outright say he’s getting hummers on the side, but he walked right into the trap set up for him. Am I wrong to accept better and smarter from my head of state? Looking at things from the UK it seemed that there was a small but powerful part of the US political scene that did not accept the legitimacy of a democratic President and were determined to get him on something, anything. From Whitewater to Vince Foster to the laughable monicagate. Yet Bush lies his way into a disasterously ill-planned war and it’s still the democrats that get demonised. Liberal press my ass. ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-monica-lewinsky-had-been-really-hot/343894/62 "2006-02-13T11:36:42Z")
> [@pokey](#): > > What’s weird is that when Angelina Jolie was sleeping with Billy Bob, everyone hated her and now that she’s being normal and sleeping with the hottest male, everyone feels much more comfortable with her. Why would everyone hated her for dating Billy Bob? 😕 I didn’t even care who Angelina Jolie was dating, so I guess I don’t understand what the hype was about. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-monica-lewinsky-had-been-really-hot/343894/63 "2006-02-13T13:35:13Z")
> [@sjc](#): > > In the end I think it matters a lot more what is inside a person than what is on the outside. But what if I don’t like cigars? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-monica-lewinsky-had-been-really-hot/343894/64 "2006-02-13T13:41:53Z")
> [@Pochacco](#): > > Clinton’s [approval rating](http://uspolitics.about.com/library/bl_historical_approval.htm) was 65% when he left office. That’s higher than both Reagan and JFK. I don’t think you can really make a good comparison of outgoing opinion polls for JFK. After all, on November 22, nobody knew that was his last day. And on November 24… well, would you want to be the pollster who has to call people and ask “so… how do you like the president _now_?” ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-monica-lewinsky-had-been-really-hot/343894/65 "2006-02-13T15:39:59Z")
> [@tagos](#): > > Looking at things from the UK it seemed that there was a small but powerful part of the US political scene that did not accept the legitimacy of a democratic President and were determined to get him on something, anything. From Whitewater to Vince Foster to the laughable monicagate. > > Yet Bush lies his way into a disasterously ill-planned war and it’s still the democrats that get demonised. Liberal press my ass. I agree. In addition to Afghanistan and Iraq, the Republicans have taken the war to the Democrats. It’s the only one they are winning convincingly. ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-monica-lewinsky-had-been-really-hot/343894/66 "2006-02-13T17:21:58Z")
- Angelina Jolie was sleeping with Billy Bob, \* I hated billy bob… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-monica-lewinsky-had-been-really-hot/343894/67 "2006-02-14T02:31:54Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Incidentally, I’ve always thought [this](http://www.jfkmontreal.com/graphics/hillary_vince.jpg) was the most attractive photo of Hillary. Gosh. She looks like Mary Tyler Moore. In a good way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-monica-lewinsky-had-been-really-hot/343894.md?page=3)