Oh, bullcrap. A man who can lie to his wife (and as Orwell noted, omission is the most powerful form of lie) can lie to the voters as well. It is HIGHLY relevant in my personal calculus about Cain's worthyness to be the GOP nominee. You can choose to ignore it if you wish. I don't.
I give lots of money to lots of charities and or people that I know and don’t know, without telling my spouse. Over 40 years I’m sure it would add up to a considerable amount. There is nothing nefarious about it.
Matthew 6
1 Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.
2 When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
4 that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.
Cain is a wealthy man AND a minister. That's a double whammy for being hit up for money by everybody with a hard luck story.
Last night a FReeper was explaining that, as a minister's wife, she has no idea who her husband is helping from day to day. He exercises the best judgment he can, but sometimes they turn out to be grifters or worse.
I've been tagged myself by con men a couple of times. And a con man will tell any lie if he thinks there's money in it. A con woman might think along the same lines. And really, what can you say? "She's lying" is about it.
But as a purely practical matter, whoever your candidate is, do you think he or she is immune to this sort of low-class attack? And if it takes down Cain they will redouble their efforts to take down YOUR man. It may not be sex (that's a no-brainer here because it ties into Democrat fantasies) but it will be rumor and innuendo and it will be impossible to satisfy the standard YOU have set.
“A man who can lie to his wife (and as Orwell noted, omission is the most powerful form of lie”
That’s why I want to hear from Gloria Cain. What Herman did would be wrong for me in my relationship w/my wife; however, we still don’t know if this was just the way Herman normally does things; (He is a known and documented philanthropist who has given huge sums of money to worthy causes; and this may have been “small change: to him.) or whether his motive was to hide the fact he was giving funds to Ms White. I have said before, I am disappointed in Mr Cain (for how this issue has been handled by his campaign) ...but I am still w/him.