Naw, your standards are otherworldly it has to be said. No European nation would have had an investigation by a government authority whether the head of state was blow-jobbed or not like you did with Clinton, that is simply unfathomable here. Sure the gossip papers would have been all over it, but it would have died down. The gossip papers were all over Berlusconi for teenage hookers but he has been sentenced now for tax fraud, not sex against money. The last French President changed wives shortly before taking office, the new one had two as well who fought a little in public, the papers grinned about it, but no one declared him unfit for office or prone to blackmail and extortion from foreign intelligence services.
One of our more recent Chancellors (Gerhard Schröder) was into his 4th marriage when he took office. Other than that some political opponent spoke with some vitriol of "the current Ms Schröder" (which was subsequently chastened as a "cheap shot"), it was no big issue. Our current President, Herr Gauck, is married but has been separated for years. His significant other has the role of the 1st Lady and when a conservative MoP coyly asked whether perhaps the two shouldn't marry now at last (after Gauck had his divorce that is), he was admonished by the Conservative Party that this was "a private matter". Finally, our Secretary of State, Guido Westerwelle is openly gay, and takes his male significant other on trips with him, even in Arab states, I believe the two are married by now. I'm unaware that he is on the pay roll of the KGB.
But when we found out that our former Secretary of Defense had cheated with his doctor's thesis, he had to leave office in ignominy. You can bonk all you want in the Vaterland as long as it is with consenting non-minor mammals and you are gracious with your divorcees, but you can't lie about your academics. Old Europe has for once a different set of values than the US.
