Should the people running our governments be allowed privacy in their lives ?

Yes ofcourse they should,we all need some privacy,even government bods..............

A certain amount of public scrutiny is not only acceptable but beneficial. However, there is a limit. In my opinion, I don't care what politicians do if it doesn't bear on their job performance. For many, that line is obvious, if a politician is accepting bribes or something like that, then I want to know. If a politician is cheating on his wife, I don't care normally, unless there's a complicating factor like that politician is trying to legislate family values they don't hold or in the course of their cheating they break laws they were supposed to enforce.

Two key examples of the grey area come to mind: 1) Larry Craig, who was a champion of anti-gay legislation and was then caught soliciting anonymous gay sex in an airport mens room; 2) Elliot Spitzer, who I initially defended after he was caught soliciting prostitutes, until I found out he had done so while Attorney General when he was prosecuting prostitution rings... except the one he was using. While I don't normally care if a politician is gay or goes to prostitutes, in those cases, that actually impacts their jobs, so then I care.

I favor the level of scrutiny needed to find these things but once something is found and it isn't important, there should be no more scrutiny than you would give to anyone else found to have done the same thing. I think Larry Craig should have been forced out of the Senate, but I don't think he should have been arrested. If Elliot Spitzer had not been using prostitutes as AG but only as Governor, I would have favored allowing him to stay in office but be prosecuted criminally and likely sentenced to attend John School (the most common sentence for johns in New York, and from what I hear, pretty effective), and also probably a substantial fine.

Yes they should. Have you ever tried to write a report or do a tax return when someone is looking over your shoulder or shouting at you. Running a country is very important you need zero distractions

no way.

nobody asked them to run this country, and i'm talking about the bad ones though.. if there are any good ones left anyway -.-