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Originally Posted by KSig RC
On a completely related note . . . is this another step toward the public simply not caring what public figures do on their own time? I'm pretty unconcerned by the "Politicians are douche bags" angle - I mean really, a cheating politician?!? Heavens to Thomas Jefferson's illegitimate kids! - but with Manny Ramirez getting a standing ovation, Jon and Kate having their highest-rated show ever, etc., do we at some point become apathetic (or even morbidly addicted) to scandal? Or are politicians held to a different standard?
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Yes and no on all counts.
i think we have gotten to the point not that we don't care...but moreso we are NOT surprised.
Now while I am not surprised that he had an affair...admittedly, that was the last thing that came to my mind when I initially read the story.
Being that he had a history of just disappearing probably should have rang a bell (but then I got other things on my mind) regardless of the affair, him just up and running out like that with no word to anybody, was strange enough on the face of it.
Back to the bigger picture, the reason why most of us look the other way on the affair issue is, some of us got some of our own drama going on so to a point....these actions 'humanize' the politicians...on the flipside of all of that, some of these actions also tend to reflect how they treat the office...this is why i come back to the question of on whose dime was his little trip on?
Let's get past the affair for one moment and Im willing to make a prediction...if he didn't spend any govt funds, then he may get a slap on the wrists and carry on with his career with some tarnish and no, he may wind up being lost in the pack come 2012....his wife may leave him or wind up on 20/20 or Dateline...if that money was on the people's dime, in light of teh stimulus debacle...all hell will break loose.