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Mark Sanford hit

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 4:08 pm  
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It is now official. Governor Mark Sanford has been hit hard by the South Carolina’s ethics commission. He has been hit with a whopping 37 counts of violating state law ethics. The charges show that this is nothing but a political assassination of Governor Sanford.

Before I carry on, I would declare that I am not a fan of Governor Mark Sanford. I look at him as a typical politician on the right wing side of the aisle. He is part of a typical kind of political dose that is really burning this country up, something which an Independent like me does not like.

However, I do not think he did anything wrong when he had an affair with the Argentinian reporter. It is really not a benchmark of a great leader . Cleopatra slept with many men, yet she is still probably the greatest leader that Egypt ever had. President Clinton was anytime a greater leader than President Bush even though he was a blatant adulterer.

I am also disgusted by the manner that this political assassination is being carried out. In politics, when the tide is good for you, people hang around you like leeches; they want to bask in your glory. When the tide changes, you are dropped like a bowling ball. Right now, the Republicans are trying to distance themselves as far as possible from this guy.

The charges back this. They are charging him for taking a flight to see President’s Obama inauguration using his campaign’s money. Come on! You tell me that they did not know this for several months? You think they did not know that he was flying to political gatherings (I wonder which party’s political gathering did he go to…?) for YEARS? Nobody knew about this? You think nobody knew that he was taking business class international flights? Come on!

And all of a sudden, after his affair became public became public all this information comes out. Suddenly, he has gone from bring Republican governor that was supposed to be challenging President Obama in 2012 to being the Republican Party’s pariah boy. Suddenly, he got from commanding respect to being threatened by his Lieutenant Governor to quit or pay the consequences.

We cannot allow this to happen! What he has done is not comparable to what Governor Rod Blagojevich or Governor Elliot Spitzer has done. They committed crimes, which we hope that nobody knew. Is Governor Sanford’s offense anyhow as serious as these people’s offenses?

I do understand that if I were a prosecutor in charge of this case, I would have no choice but to go after the Governor. But I would also go after each and every person that knew about the Governor doing all this for allowing a crime to happen and not reporting it at the appropriate time. I would follow the book completely.

I do not want our country to be more of a political circus than it already is! We cannot allow one person to punished by the law and the rest escape Scott-free. Enough is enough! We cannot allow a Lieutenant Governor to threaten his boss in the manner Lt. Governor Andre Bauer has. That is outright disgusting!

If people want to start making accusations, they better ensure that they are not breaking the rules or the law themselves! People who live in glass houses should not throw stones!

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Enough of the racist chants already…

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 6:51 am  
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Georgian Representative Hank Johnson has said that his fellow Georgian Representative Joe Wilson had demonstrated a touch of racism when he heckled President Obama. He even went as far as to say that Representative Wilson action could lead to the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan!

To me, this is why the Democrats are so pathetic at politics. They were so silent when the Republicans made lie after lie about their claims. From death panels, pulling the plug out of grandma to rationing health-care, they just shut the freak up. But when a person told the President, “You lie!”, they get all angry and take action.

Secondly, even if there was a veil of racism in the outburst of Joe Wilson, it is because he was playing politics more than if he was a racist. People would have been able to tell it a long time ago if he was a racist person.

But that is not the case, he is “racist” as in the terms of politics he chooses to support. He is a huge fan of the Confederate flag and was famous for fighting to ensure that it remained flying on South Carolina State House calling it very honorable. It may be very offensive to Black people, but the sad truth is that there are many people who agree with Representative Wilson.

Democracy is the best system of government in the world. But that does not mean that it does not have a bad side. One of it is that every kind of people would be represented, even those that you do not agree with. There are the open and “concealed” racists in South Carolina, and Representative Joe Wilson has got a right to go after their votes. If this base disappears, do you think he would still sound racist? He would be forced to change or be gone.

I think that the duration of this is being lengthened deliberately by the Democrats. The Democrats want to be perceived as the victims of Republican ranting. I think that it stinks, but then again, that is politics. I do not think Representative Johnson really think it is about racism. I think he also want to take some of the spotlight.

In the end of the day, it is all about politics. There are Blacks that would support a person like Jeremiah Wright or parties like the Black Panthers. As long as there are Blacks with that kind of belief there would be people that cater to their political thought. It is the same thing for Whites.

I also think that the biggest winner of this is Representative Joe Wilson. He is the one that has gained national attention overnight with these two words. He would never be a President, but he has all but sealed his credentials as a Representative for life. Now all racist whites would support him. He is also helped by constant attention put on him by the Democrats.

The biggest lesson I would like the readers to take home is to take the “games” of these politicians with a pinch of salt. It is the same for television personalities like Keith Olbermann and Glenn Beck who incite a lot of hatred. They are all doing it for the money and power. You guys should really use your brains to decipher what is right and what is wrong.

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Sanford under pressure

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pm  
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It is not like I am a huge fan of Governor Sanford. But the amount of pressure he is coming under is intense. And as expected, he is bombarded with calls to resign from upstate Republicans to Democrats in his own state.

Lets see the charges. The first charge sounds the most credible of all: He took taxpayers money and took it to Argentina for pleasure. But didn’t President Obama took two planes to New York for a date night? Didn’t President Bush spend so much vacation time in Texas? How about the time when President Clinton got “blown” by Monica Lewinsky? Who do you think paid for that? Were they impeached or should be impeached for it? I do not think so. We do not even know if he went to Argentina for business or pleasure.

The next charge is that he cheated on his wife. Is that really something that would affect him in his work? I told my boss in ST that he can have a different woman every week, as long as ST makes money and that I get paid well. I bet that it would be the same with you in your workplace.

But that is also the case in politics. Senator McCain does a good job as a Senator and he did meet his second wife while being married to the first. How about Mayor Giuliani, Governor Patterson or President Clinton? Who cares about their private life? There are many Americans that prefer America under President Clinton who cheated rather than President Bush who was “more moral’.

I am really frustrated that about this. Lets go after Governor Sanford for rejecting stimulus money when his state needed to. Lets go after him for his policies. Lets go after him for the hypocrisy that surrounded him when President Clinton cheated on his wife.

But please, do not be pathetic to go after him because he has an Argentinian mistress. That is really nonsensical part of politics. Governor Sanford’s cheating should only affect his family and him. It is really none of our business. It is a great story to read but we should not be pist about it. There are still fans of Jessica Simpson and Jack Nicholson, why can’t we apply the same standards here?

Apparently, he dug his grave further by saying that he had crossed the lines with other women too. He also said that he wants to fall in love with his wife again but maintains that the Argentinian mistress was his soul mate. This has really shut his political career down. Even his strongest ally in Gary Simrill has now asked him to resign.

Look, Governor Sanford could be some “emo” dude that has read too many female-fantasy romance novels or he could be really be a “playa”; neither makes him a bad Governor. I think it is stupid to go after him for his own personal business.

Live and let live. If he broke a law, punish him. Grow up America!

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Mark Sanford : Overreaction

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 3:40 am  
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Other than Iran, this is one story that has been grabbing headlines today. Yet another politician bites the apple of Eden. Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina joins the list that includes : President Bill Clinton, Senator Larry Craig, Governor Elliot Spitzer, Senator John Ensign…

I understand why some media and news agencies tend to go after Republicans more often than they do go after Democrats. Democrats boast less of a family values platform than the Republicans. Hence, there is a moment where some would call hypocrisy being caught or what others may term as gotcha journalism.

This is very true in this case with Governor Sanford. He was a very vocal opponent of President Clinton when he had his ‘tour’ of infidelity. To be fair though, he did not make up any stories about his whereabouts and he was more concerned with the President lying a decade ago. But now I think he can understand why President Clinton cheated then!

I also find it hypocritical of the same Democrats that were protecting Presidential Clinton to be going after Governor Sanford for doing the same thing. Hasn’t been just over a decade ago when they were jumping up and down about this? They seem to have the first symptoms of political “cancer” : short term memory and a thick skin.

America has been through so much as a nation, can’t her citizens just tolerate some vices of one another. We tolerate some of us drinking, smoking or even marijuana; why can we allow people to make human mistakes?

It is not only in America that politicians cheat. France is a great example. After their last elections, President Szarkozy dumped his wife for a supermodel and his main opponent Segone Royal too divorced her husband accusing him of adultery. It happens everywhere. Why is it that Americans are the ones that are more concerned about it than other countries? I find that rather fascinating.

I would be consistent with Governor Sanford as I am with President Clinton. I do not see this as being an issue for him running for President. Though I prefer people like Senator Chuck Hagel on being the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012, I do not think that Governor Sanford should be disqualified from it just because he cheated on his wife?

Isn’t Jack Nicholsen still a great actor even though he has slept with more than 2000 women? Wouldn’t it be a shame that we asked President Obama to resign if he cheated on Michelle? Hell, we would not care if our CEO sleep with a new woman every week as long as he make lots for the company and pay us well!

Another angle of viewing this is that I think that if Governor Sanford was a woman, I do not think that the would have shown any mercy at all (not that they are showing him a lot right now). That also reflects a lot on the kind of society that we live in do we?

I am also hoping to get a hopeless romantic version of this. I can bet with my readers right now that down the road there would be a movie made on this. It is amazing that there are still people that actually believes in fairy tales and all those romantic novels!

Lets give Governor Sanford a break man. Let his wife eat him alive with her nagging! Live and let live. Please let us concentrate on the politics.

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