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With reference to France's President recent affair , seems like most French feel that it is his personal life..
If this sort of thing happened in Singapore.. Dont think the public will think this way..
What do you think public sentiment will be if the leader of your country had a affair.. Will they bash them or treat it indifferently as their own personal life ?
With reference to France's President recent affair , seems like most French feel that it is his personal life..
If this sort of thing happened in Singapore.. Dont think the public will think this way..
What do you think public sentiment will be if the leader of your country had a affair.. Will they bash them or treat it indifferently as their own personal life ?
Well, in the US, when Clinton had an affair, a lot of people went nuts over it and it became for many the defining moment of his career... which, when you consider that he was the best president the US has had in 30+ years, gives you some insight into peoples' sensibilities. It helped the neocon movement gain momentum as it decried a loss of "morality" and helped get Bush, probably the most disastrous US president, into office.
I can imagine the Daily Mail in uproar over such an incident, but I would hope Daily Mail readers do not represent the majority of British people and their views. I think people would think less of any Prime Minister if he had an affair and couldn't even keep it under the radar, but if he was doing alright otherwise, and was overseeing a good economy, I doubt it'd be a defining moment of his career.
You know, I don't think it'd be that big of an issue in Canada. Sure it would hit the news and people might tut tut, but it wouldn't end anyone's career unless for some reason it put the public good in jeopardy. We don't quite have the tabloid machine that would blow it up the way the US and UK have, and I think we'd talk about it for awhile but then some real scandal would come along and overshadow it.
You know, I don't think it'd be that big of an issue in Canada. Sure it would hit the news and people might tut tut, but it wouldn't end anyone's career unless for some reason it put the public good in jeopardy. We don't quite have the tabloid machine that would blow it up the way the US and UK have, and I think we'd talk about it for awhile but then some real scandal would come along and overshadow it.
Bill Clinton's popularity went up after his affair became public in the USA. I doubt a Republican President would get off that easy as Republicans wouldn't go as easy on their President doing that and the media is one-sided Democrat and would twist it to the Dems advantage.
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