text: why does monica lewinsky affair hurt americans so much? what does it have to do with president's job? it had nothing to do with the president's job.  kenneth star could not get clinton on anything else so he went after a sex scandal, knowing that he could get him to lie on the subject or embarrass him.  what he and monica did in the oval office had nothing to do with the original investigation. there have been plenty of politicians that have been adulterers and others that have laundered money and got away with it.  i do not believe anybody in washington can really take a moral high ground on this.  there is plenty of shame to go around on both sides, democrat and republican.   part of power is that it corrupts.  i do not care who it is, there is the potential to act self righteous and lie about many issues, not just about if one had extra curricular activities in the oval office closet. as the general said to joe mccarthy, sir, have you no shame? i say this to our current president and congress.