Posted on 05/08/2008 11:24:30 AM PDT by JerseyRepub
Rep. Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.) said Thursday that he had an extramarital affair that has resulted in a three-year-old daughter in a statement released through a public relations firm.
“My personal failings and imperfections have caused enormous pain to the people I love and I am truly sorry,” Fossella said in the statement.
“While I understand that there will be many questions, including those about my political future, making any political decisions right now are furthest from my mind,” the lawmaker, who was arrested for drunk driving last week, said. “Over the coming weeks and months, I will to continue to do my job and I will work hard to heal the deep wounds I have caused.”
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Why?
You have to ask?
It seems unrealistic to expect our politicians to have never sinned, even to have never committed sexual wrongdoings. Here are some examples in addition to Cleveland and Harding:
Jefferson (children with Sally Hemmings, not absolutely proved, but there is plenty of evidence), FDR (his mistress was with him when he died), Eisenhower (Kay Sommersby), Kennedy (fillandering well established), LBJ (well established), Nixon (no known sexual wrongdoing, but plenty of sinning), Carter (same as Nixon as far as sex, but he ‘sinned in his heart’), Reagan (divorced, Patti Reagan Davis apparently conceived before marriage to Nancy Davis), Clinton (goes without saying), GW Bush (alcoholic, apparently former playboy). Truman and GHW Bush: can’t think of anything specific, but must have sinned some time,
If we demand that our politicians should be totally pure, we won’t find anyone who can meet that criterion.
We are talking about sinning while in office. If I was CFO of a public company...and I was arrested for DUI....do you think I would continue to hold my job!?
Hells bells.....I couldn't run for office based on my past! And nobody I know could.
I'm not referring to PAST history.....I am expecting my elected officials to conduct themselves in a legal and moral way, at least while in office. Although that would be minimal.
Those are my standards.
I would hope that the majority agree with me.........
Many of the cases I cited above include sexual wrongdoing while IN office, yet they were good presidents.
Don’t we all sin almost every day? I know I do, and I would find it hard to believe anyone, politician or not, who claimed he/she didn’t.
Because you reason like one........
I am Not a Democrat. I think you are being unrealistic. I vote for the person I consider best qualified to perform the duties of the office and don’t worry about their state of grace.
And if a CEO, otherwise well qualified, is fired because of being picked up for DUI, that’s a mistake on the part of those who fire him.
” I guess old habits are hard to break. Especially those nasty ones that Democrats seem to possess.”
Doesn’t seem to be much difference between the parties, when it comes to sexual (mis)conduct.
Well we will have to agree to disagree. Although I will meet you half-way.....I would want to know the circumstances.
But I hold my elected officials to higher standards, as IMO should you. And would HOPE they would at the very least offer to resign.
Enough said..........
There isn’t much of a difference. I think in order to go into politics requires selling your soul. For the most part all politicians do that. The only difference is how much of their souls they sell. Some of them only sell the parts that make disappoint their constituents. Others sell their souls and the security of their country along with it. Depressing isn’t it?
I also want to add, Fossella gave into his baser instincts — his pecker and booze. Not a good combo. The sad thing is that he hurt his Staten Island family, disappointed his loyal constituents and his little out of wedlock child. He voted to the right most of the time. Too bad he didn’t live his live like that.
Send him home and tell him the party is over.
Point of info on John M Murphy. Murphy is a highly decorated war hero. During the Korean War Lt. Murphy was responsible for taking a hill from the enemy. He ran out of bullets in his gun and proceeded to charge up the hill swinging the gun at the enemy. As to his service to SI during his 18 years in congress. John was responsible for many of the projects that made SI what it is today. John was a CONSERVATIVE democrat that caught the ire of the liberal power structure of the democartic party. In 1979 John supported a candidate that was running for President against a sitting democratic president in Jimmy Carter. That is the reason that John was “targeted” in abscam by the Carter justice dept. No MONEY HAS EVER BEEN TRACED BACK TO MURPHY OR ANY OF HIS ASSOCIATES!!
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