It seemed like an old game we played as kids on the old Apple II’s, but it was much less G-rated. The truth is that SC’s Governor like so many others in the past couple years was found having an affair. This added to the growing list of woes in our America does need to be recognized and should not be dismissed lightly.
I have a question that at this point begs asking. Did this many men of authority and public face have affairs in the past and just keep it covered up well or have we come into a new place where integrity means nothing? It seems to me that we have changed along the line somewhere. I have to ask us… If the man’s wife can’t trust him… Can we?
Are we morally obligated as a people to recognize that immorality and breaking vows in one place means that there are other broken vows and that there is other cheating going on? What defines a man? What he does in public or what is in private?
And one last question… How hard is it to keep your pants zipped?
Women, you have one on the males in the world I guess. You definitely are able to keep it together better in the public arena.
Guys, we look like a bunch of cavemen. We cannot even control our lusts anymore and we put everyone in jeopardy and their futures just to fulfill our wild fantasies.
I am not in a mode of judging this morning. I simply want us to rethink who we are and what we are about and make decisions on how we will act and live before we are presented with a situation. We need to make the decision now to live better. We need to step up to the plate now and do what is right for not just ourselves. We need to make our agreements with our own souls now in the secret place of our hearts. To do what is right in every situation and even more so in secret.
Let’s not lose our names and sell the farm over some hot chica we met in passing.
Hmmmmmmmmm… Hot babe OR Presidency ’12??????????
This is a tough one…………………. Well, thank goodness we found this out BEFORE the presidential race. Seriously, is the best that’s out there for our public officials?
pd
Adultery Finds a Pol on Hiking Trail of Life: Margaret Carlson – Bloomberg.com
So it turns out that after five days of playing “Where in the world is Mark Sanford?” we — and his mystified wife — learned that the 2012 Republican presidential aspirant and popular two-term governor of South Carolina wasn’t communing with nature in the mountains but with a longtime friend in South America.
Upon returning yesterday, he told a reporter that he couldn’t understand all the fuss, as if everyone known for fiscal restraint (he must have paid full fare!) fills the car with camping gear (and packs his passport) only to drive to the Atlanta airport to wander off to Argentina like a latter-day Che Guevera tooling around on a motorcycle and keeping a diary.
If that were the case, he might be turning the whole thing into an award-winning film. There was a strong hint that wasn’t going to happen by about Day Three of his disappearance, when his wife told reporters, “I have not heard from my husband. I am taking care of my children.” The father of four missed Father’s Day, she said, because he needed “space.”
Quickly the initial explanation — he needed a break alone after an exhaustive legislative session — became inoperable. In a meandering press conference, Sanford apologized to everyone he had hurt — people of faith like him; his four boys, his wife. He choked up when he apologized to a former aide, Tom Davis, who had been with him so long that he’d slept in the basement on the kids’ dinosaur sheets.