Translation: It’s OK if you are a Republican.
Rachel Maddow exposes the hypocrisy. UFB,
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It is the hypocrisy and the different rules for different people that simply makes me sick. Shame on the hypocrites.
And these Republicans can keep their family values to themselves. In my world, it’s a lot worse to cheat on your spouse for real than to act lewdly on the Internet.
Who has the cojones to watch this video and see the glaring hypocrisy? I almost felt sorry for people like Eric Cantor. He apparently doesn’t believe that sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
How can there be two sets of rules? Anthony Weiner should resign. However, Cantor didn’t feel that Stanford, Vitter, Ensign should have to resign for having affairs? How can this be? Please justify.
And that was just Senator Kennedy!
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Oh Dear God. Cargo, he is dead.
I wasn’t pointing those comments towards anyone in general. But seriously, bad things go on all the time. Weiner is just a distraction and a diversion.
If this dude’s name wasn’t Weiner, this story would have died last week. Maybe if his name wasn’t Weiner he wouldn’t have the proclivities he does. It reminds me of the old Johnny Cash song: Boy named Sue.
Moon,
You may see this as just a distraction or diversion away from the real issues. I see this as symptomatic of what is at the heart of the issues. When our faith in the fidelity and abilities of our elected leaders is constantly being erroded, our confidence in our American society is impacted. When I see the moral decline of our society, from those who make the laws that greatly impact my life, and my family, to the garbage that has become pop-culture, to the young woman with (not kidding) thousands of dollars in tattoos and jewelry purchasing coffee-cake and twinkies with her food-stamp debit card at the 7-eleven, it really makes you think. If you are really concerned about the society in which you live, and the one in which your child will live, you grow conerned. Any rational person would.
@Moon-howler
I know he’s dead.
But it was funny.
Well, at least to me.
This type of crapola has always been with us. We just have the technology to ferret it out more quickly and disperse it over a variety of very public media.
It’s funny to see such righteous indignation over the latest affair when we don’t even demand truth from our local politicians but instead rally around whichever one of them has the appropriate letter behind his/her name – even to the point of promoting them to ever higher office. Anyone who blindly supports a party candidate regardless of their behavior is guilty as well.
@Cargosquid Kennedy overcame his problem and was considered a highly respected member of the senate by folks on both sides of the aisle and was a far better man than you or I. What great legisla tion have you ever developed Cargo? I haven’t done any and neither have you. Your comment was in bad taste and by no means funny.
Kennedy overcame his problem and was considered a highly respected member of the senate by folks on both sides of the aisle and was a far better man than you or I.
Really? He overcame leaving a girl to die? He overcame his apparent reputation for partying? What great legislation did HE develop? His actions harmed America. He actually cooperated with the Soviets to undermine Reagan. So my comment was absolutely accurate AND funny, except to people that idolize hypocritical, corrupt, power hungry fools like Ted “What girl?” Kennedy.
@Cargosquid Funny about those Kennedy blinders. Methinks there is a bit of hypocrisy in the whole Camelot-worship. What “walk” was Teddy walking? Or, for that matter, his philandering brother? Nice Catholic boys, all. The kind you’d LOVE your daughter to marry, as long as she knows how to swim.
Emma, I am not a Kennedy blinders kind of person. No camelot worship here. Just out of curiosity, where were you when Kennedy was shot? Can you tell exactly where you were and what you were doing? Regardless of your opinion on the Kennedys, Ted, JFK, etc, they shaped America. For better or worse.
There has to be something good somewhere that one can find in a person who has grown up with a life of privilege and yet still gets in there and fights the fight for the little guy and for those less fortunate.
You can look at the point of view that Ted was a reckless, womanizing, pathological creep who was a Catholic boy, killed someone for some unknown reason, had a rapist nephew , a killer nephew, and should be kept out of the Pearly Gates.
Or, you can see him as an imperfect human being who has had both high lights and lowlights as part of his life. Somehow his death pulled his life and the life of his siblings more into focus for me and the impact that they all had on my life and the life of the America I grew up in.
I tend not to be a binary sorter of the human condition. In my mind, people aren’t good or bad, but blends of the two. Some folks come out with more good than bad. In fact, most humans do. That is how come I tend to see Mark Sanford as a very tragic figure and can look at how hard Ted Kennedy fought for the little people. I also see Ted as a person whose life has been filled with more tragedy that most people ever see in a lifetime. 3 brothers cut down in their prime, 2 by assassin’s bullets. 1 sister’s brain pickled. Another sister killed in an accident. Several children stricken with cancer. Numerous nephews stuck down. It just doesn’t stop. Not excuses but considerations that sure make you glad you aren’t him, even with all that money.
If I were in Weiner’s situation, I would resign. But ultimately it’s Weiner and the voters of his district who decide.
I do think it’s regretable that this sort of thing is “news”. All of our politicians have feet of clay. So do we all.