Does politics attract narcissistic, over sexed, risk takers with low morals and a subconscious self destruction wish or is it just that politician’s transgressions are more visible than those of your average profession? OR WHAT??
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It certainly seems that way, but I guess when other professions are not in the "public eye" so we don't hear about all of those transgressions.
I think this last guy, Stanford, he takes the cake.
The fact that they are politicians makes me want to hear about their sexual lives even less. I want to hear more about Michael Jackson...
Adrienne makes a good point there. The media scrutinizes these people because they are in the public eye. I wouldn't know if politics attracts these people, but politics seems to give them a feeling of being above everything. I like it when they are taken down a notch.
To Sean's point, I think we are hearing way too much about Michael Jackson, and have for years...but then HE is/was a public figure as well. And he had HIS share of scandal.
I wonder why it is that people who have the opportunity to be in the public eye don't seem to think about needing to live a good clean life (because they are often exposed). And if they can't, then they should think about a different profession.
Oh Appius Pappius, I was merely being facetious...
It is surely no one's business what goes on behind closed doors, but if these politicians are doing it out in the open, they are bringing all that negative attention on themselves. Doesn't mean I'm any less sick and tired of seeing it in the media, just saying that I understand it.
Sean
The behind closed doors comment has come into being from people who do not think. Society is definately intrested in what goes on behind closed doors. We outlaw incest, spouse beating, child beating, and PETA people would add pet abuse.
Good point Grandpa, but I'm still not interested in this guy's personal life.
Did he really break the law? I'm not asking that to be rhetorical, I honestly don't know. For instance, did he hire a prostitute or was he unfaithful to his wife with some other woman? In the latter case, there's no reason to delve into his personal life. Infidelity is extremely extremely wrong, but not illegal, and none of our business.
If, however, he broke the law or somehow dragged his personal life out in the open, he deserves all the negative attention he gets, and gets no sympathy from me.
I am of the same camp as you Sean. I am not a proponent of infidelity but that is between he and his wife, not us.
However the fact that he "disappeared" for many days does bother me. He told his staff he was going "hiking in the appalachians" when in fact he was in Argentina. Had anything happened in his state or our country he would not have been available.
Lying to your wife is a marital issue, lying to your constituents and your staff is a public political issue.
Aha! That's what I was going for, Adrienne, but I could not put it so eloquently. He is accountable to his constituents and answers to them for his political transgressions. His marital transgressions are between him, his wife, and whatever God in which they believe.
If he did not use tax payer money to see someone on the side.......I wouldn't care either. He should have had this afair on his own dime.
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