History repeats itself

On Sunday mornings I love watching C-Span Book TV and History TV. This morning there was a discussion on Thomas Jefferson and his possible fathering of a slave's child. This was originally released, discovered, and realized during the height of the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky not really sex but kind of sex scandal. Convenient? I think so. I don't know if I believe the Thomas Jefferson story, he was a man so obsessed with his image that would have hurt it severely if it came out at the time. Not to mention he was that times JKF Jr. so he could have had any woman. That scandal would have been completely ruined everything for him. There are a lot of holes in the story so I don't have an answer whether it happened or not. Not mention his impact on this country was so great that its hard to hold a grudge for something that happened 200 years ago. The same is true for JFK (the first one) and in my personal feeling Bill Clinton.

Human nature is imperfect. People make mistakes. That does not alter the impact they can have on history. We all make an imprint on the world. Good or bad. Bad people do good things sometimes, and good people do bad. We should not forget that although people do bad things their impact on this world can be a great one and we should not judge on indiscretion but on actions...