"The State of Affairs" - A Piquant Look at Adultery in American Politicas & Its Ramifications

Stockyard Magazine ^ | July 7th, 2009 | Joseph "Tex" Genovese Dozier

[TexCon]

Amid a confused array of accusations last week, Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC) took to the podium to clarify the nature of his romantic life. With honesty that would make a pilgrim proud, he confirmed the media’s suspicion that his love had been divided between two parties: his Argentine paramour Maria Belen Chapur and – with recently compromised commitment – the hiking trail of the Appalachian Mountains. Sanford’s tearful, sniveling reference to Chapur as his “soul mate” made his attempted reconciliation with his wife a blanching display of equivocation; but there was one topic about which the governor was not conflicted—he would remain in office.

Jefferson, Kennedy, Clinton, Spitzer: Our country has accumulated an impressive litany of statesman whose reputation, at one point or another, became eclipsed by the shadow of a monolithic libido. Sometimes the affair entered the public eye years after the fact, other times almost immediately; but the vox populi has long portrayed the Seventh Commandment as a political code...

[TexCon]

Please feel free to share with others. I was not involved in the decision of the graphic - though it is quite amusing.

[dfwgator]

"Gentlemen, affairs of state must take precedence over the Affairs of State."

[Sola Veritas]

The writer’s last paragraph says it all:

“Yet no American should excuse the audacity and idiocy of those statesmen who, in the name of sex, abuse their powers and make a circus of their office. When the red phone rings at 3 a.m., the public doesn’t want a hooker to be on the other end.”

[Albion Wilde]

" Although we may not have a machismo, Il-Duce-want-to-be as our leader, we also do not have our elected officials cavalierly promoting sexist a nd chauvinistic values...."

HUH? Il-Duce-wannabe? Definitely. Machismo? Not so much.

[6SJ7]

L ‘affair Sanford is so... boring. Congress is about to sell us into permanent slavery between Kneecap & Trade and socialized healthcare.

[TexCon]

Unlike Silvio Berlusconi - a modern Mussolini/il-duche.