My take on the Sanford affair is that affairs are an issue of personal ethics, not public ethics. As far as his personal life goes, that's between him and his family. That he'd leave the country without taking steps to make sure someone knew where he was and that someone was in charge? Those are violations of the public trust.
Yeah. I mean, I do feel sorry for the guy. I suspect he probably wasn't looking to fall in love and had pre-existing issues in his marriage, because human relationships are complicated things and sometimes, you feel lonely even while partnered and your unmet emotional needs find their outlet elsewhere. These things happen. But while it explains, it doesn't excuse the public trust violations.
And it's not right to make people worry about you, much less a state.
yeah, it would seem that polyamory is more arranged and agreed upon than this Sanford thing.(Not that I know personally...the internets is just a place to learn and discuss these things.)
oh, man, I need to NOT go back and look at the comments in that Sun blog I commented in. Somebody just said I wasn't "bright" enough to understand all the griping in there. sheesh. i've got to let it go. people are just assholes, evidently!
Polyamory implies consent by all parties to me. Maybe that was going on here or not. It doesn't sound like it. Regardless, his email messages are still creepy to me.
That is freaky cool!
I had to load it up in an image editor just make sure it really is the same color and it showed me that it was indeed. Man, I really am from Missouri.
My take on the Sanford affair is that affairs are an issue of personal ethics, not public ethics. As far as his personal life goes, that's between him and his family. That he'd leave the country without taking steps to make sure someone knew where he was and that someone was in charge? Those are violations of the public trust.
I am Burrell in this. While I admit to gleeful schadenfreude when a family-values type is caught in an epic fail of family values, I don't think it's malfeasance unless it involves use of public funds. It does cause one to seriously question his judgment in general, though. It's the abdication of his office that's unforgivable.
It's too bad about Farrah Fawcett, but the death that really hit me was Jeri Nielsen's [link] She's the doctor who treated herself for breast cancer at the South Pole.
My take on the Sanford affair is that affairs are an issue of personal ethics, not public ethics. As far as his personal life goes, that's between him and his family.
Only insofar as he does not attempt to legislate other people's personal lives.
Only insofar as he does not attempt to legislate other people's personal lives.
Word. He is anti-gay marriage, but apparently adultery is just dandy. Asshole.
