DEMOCRAT HYPOCRITES
John Edwards admits to affair, denies fathering child

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

Nine years ago, John Edwards had this to say about Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair: "I think this president has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter."

On Friday, after nearly a year of denials, Edwards confessed he'd committed his own "serious error in judgment" as he was preparing to run for president, an affair in 2006 that he said he admitted to his wife but had hoped to keep from the public.

"In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic," Edwards said in trying to explain his behavior.

Six months ago, Edwards was among 10 presidential contenders asked about marital fidelity.

"It's fundamental to how you judge people," Edwards told CBS News.

More here.

You know, I really like John Edwards. He was the only electable Democrat pushing progressive issues during the primaries, which to his credit forced Obama and Clinton to start talking about poverty in ways they had not been doing previously. He seems like a nice guy, a Southern gentleman. And when I decided to post about this adultery story, my plan was just to leave a two word comment: "So what?"

Then I read the story and realized how he had gone down the Joseph Lieberman road, morally posturing during the Clinton impeachment over what was, and continues to be, the former President's personal business. I'm also very disturbed by how he had the self-righteous audacity to assert that marital fidelity is "fundamental to how you judge people." Realize that we live in a country where a majority of all married men will cheat on their spouses at some point during their married lives, which means that, according to Edwards, a majority of American men are morally unfit to be President.

That's bullshit.

Look, I'm not going to say it's all good and fine to cheat on your wife--at the very least such an action causes great pain to the spouse and can completely upend family stability, which is awful, especially when children are part of the equation. But life is very complicated and confusing. For all of us. The heart is irrational and fickle and passionate and cold. We're all human beings. And that's why this issue, adultery, marital fidelity, whatever you want to call it, is personal business. That means it's none of your or my business. This is for families to sort out by themselves, or with help if they ask for it. But certainly not on the front pages of newspapers.

It definitely has nothing to with being President. I mean, serial cheater Bill Clinton did a relatively good job in the White House compared to the faithful husband we have in the Oval Office now. There's just no connection. None at all.

All those goddamned assholes, including Edwards, who got up and publicly blasted Clinton for essentially being a human being, kicking him while he was down, were the worst sort of political opportunists, scoring risk-free political points by making hay out of nothing. And it is now clear that many, if not most, of these assholes were lying about it anyway. Bunch of fucking hypocrite pigs.

Once, just once, when one of these scandals breaks, I'd love to hear a politician get up and say something like "Okay, it's not cool to cheat on your wife, but this really is none of our business. So let's just shut the hell up about it all and offer our prayers and best wishes to Latest Political Adulterer and get back to work on something substantial, like the economy, or the war, you know, actual issues."

What I really want to see is a politician unashamedly admit to being a swinger. Yeah, I know, it'll never happen.

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