03-13-2008, 12:02 AM
Quote:Sadly, this tells me more about voter attitudes than anything else.
I still think insider trading, in that it can and often does hurt others, should be illegal and punished when caught.
Purchasing the services of a prostitute has no negative effect on anyone but the spurned spouse. If she can live with it, what concern or business is it of anyone else?
The sort of decisions the man makes in his job are what should be relevant to keeping that job. Why do y'all care so much about his private life?
Because poor judgement is not a 9-to-5 affliction. I don't care if he spent his own money on sex, or chocolate, or Beanie Babies. What I care about is that he chose to perform an act that he knew for damn sure would compromise his ability to govern if he was caught. If he can wake up stupid once, what's to say he can't again? Not to mention exposing himself to blackmail ain't all that great either.
I would prefer a perfect world where everyone thought as me and thee and politician's bedroom antics were mere fodder for the paparazzi. But enough people care about such things that it does carry over into the ability to do one's job.