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Originally Posted by KSig RC
He can, apparently, count on her to keep quiet and play "wife" for five months after he's admitted to an affair . . . sounds like she's "standing by her (govern)man" huh?
I'm sure she done cussed him out, right after she lied to protect him ("I don't know where he is"). I, too, would have enjoyed the gay lover angle - we don't get enough squirming among people anymore.
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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I think that affairs will always figure in to how the public evaluates personal integrity in pols during elections, but at this point, we're kind of hard to surprise with this stuff. It's hard not to see marriage vows as the kind of public commitment you'd like your elected officials to honor, even if they break them on "their own time."
But I think most people are willing to overlook personal failings in politicians that they otherwise. Bill Clinton is the textbook example of that, but Rudy G provides one too.
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