Posted on 11/12/2012 3:38:03 PM PST by drewh
Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin pleaded for the American people to excuse extramarital affairs of public figures like David Petraeus: "What would we have done if FDR had not been our leader because he had an affair with Lucy Mercer?
Think of the productive years that Clinton could have had if Monica Lewinsky hadn't derailed them.
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders.
We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that."
Kearns-Goodwin lamented how public officials today are held to moral standards: "I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.
This man was a great general, a great leader, and for his career to come to an end because of a private matter that affects his family and him and evidently doesn't have national security concerns."
The Washington Post's Bob Woodward then completely dismantled her argument: "Unfortunately, for the CIA Director, he has special status and he's got to be clean.
He can't be blackmailed or threatened or even deal with the anxiety, 'My God, are they gonna find out about her?' And he did the right thing."
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2012/11/12/doris-kearns-goodwin-excusing-affairs-only-way-get-best-people-public-#ixzz2C3QX0783
Now that’s funny. I don’t care who you are.
Heh, made me laugh when someone told it to me. Didn’t see the ending coming.
But then I thought, if it really went to the end, Obama would say “Hey! I thought this was supposed to be Hell!”
Words.
Fail.
Me.
[shaking head]
Now that’s even FUNNIER!
LOL
No, they don't want it both ways. The Leftists do not have ANY moral code, so there is no behavior they can be criticized for. However, as Alinsky taught: be sure to excoriate any conservative who fails to live up to his own high moral code!
(BTW: I'm NOT implying Betrayus/Betrayher/Betraythem is a conservative.)
I know what you mean. Dems do not have any standards so therefore in their minds they cannot be held to any.
And, the story goes, she had a roll in the hay with LBJ when she was an aide to him.
Gee, giving the excuse to act like a rabbit. No morales or values, just screw and have more rabbits. Look at the national bird as a symbol - one mate. Gee a pretty set of legs makes for a 4 Star general to drop his draws. In WWII George patton slapped a coward for cowardice and the people wanted him to step down. Oddly enough this General should be set in front of the Congress and be informed he will talk. When he is done talking, take him out and cut his balls off and than parade him through the streets of DC in all his glory. He will always remember that he needs to keep zipper zipped.
Bills cigars ar going to taste even worse.
That graphic was intended to nullify a visual insult, but the mental vision I got from your post made me desperate to try something!
So, was she ever actually attractive...or just to LBJ?
When younger, she must have looked like an elf, or munchkin, or something.
I don't get it...
Why was Richard Nixon in Hell?
LOL...just insert this paragraph then:
So, the Devil opens another door, and inside FDR is completely immobilized on a table as Eleanor make amorous advances towards him. Obama shudders and mutters “Um...too much like my current life. No thanks.”
It was a good joke, I’s just jivin’ ya.
Hahaha. I read where LBJ would deliberately talk to people while he was taking a dump in the Oval Office bathroom.
With the door open.
Heck, that is probably what got DKG excited about him.
I looked a bunch of google pics of her when she was younger, nothing, just weird looking.
You suppose anyone else ever...yeah, never mind.
Like Clinton, LBJ did not have high standards. Availability mattered more than attractiveness.
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