I remember back when all this was happening I drove a coworker to get his tongue pierced. While were in the car we ended up talking about Clinton, and coworker said "I think he should come out as poly," presumably parroting something he'd read online as this coworker was not prone to independent thought. This statement really irritated me at the time. Clinton was _not_ poly, he was (still is, I assume) a hypocritical monogamist. Simply fucking around is _not_ the same as making the conscious choice to structure your relationships in an open, honest, non-exclusive fashion. Saying "oops, I've been fucking around, honey let's declare our marriage 'poly'" is a pretty damn low thing to spring on someone as well.

I don't think it does anyone looking to further polyamory's reputation any good to claim hypocritical monogamists as your own, either. Ooh, what a good example _they_ set.

All that said, I don't think it's anyone's business who the president is fucking, whether his wife knows/cares, what he himself thinks about it, etc. Plenty of past presidents seem to have gotten laid in office without it becoming a matter of public concern (at least until later), I'd like to see us go back to that. But I don't see how we could accomplish it aside from just keeping Republicans that the self-righteous social conservatives support in office. :P