Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina doesn't need to answer to me. I didn't have the chance to vote for or against him. And his politics are his politics...very conservative, etc. Again, to each his own.
But one of the more painful moments to me in the unfolding of the Sanford affair story was hearing a couple of television commentators read aloud some e-mails Sanford had sent to his woman friend in Argentina. Music played in the background as the aforementioned TV talk types emphasized the phrases of their choice. The governor was being humiliated...in his own words.
The e-mail world has more potholes in it, metaphorically speaking, than Raleigh's Wade Avenue. When folks started using it in offices, more than one boss accidentally received an e-mail meant for a co-worker. A friend of mine mistakenly sent one to an editor here one time, and while it wasn't vicious or profane or anything, it was critical. He realized the minute he hit the button what he had done. So he e-mailed me: "Oh, no! Oh, oh, no! I'm doomed!" The editor, a fellow of even temperment, just let it pass as if nothing had happened.
As someone who writes opinion pieces, I sometimes get e-mails that are pretty tough, calling me names and the like. I'm constantly amazed at what people will say about you in an e-mail that they would never say to your face. It's like a whole world of communication with no rules or guidelines of behavior.
As for Sanford, well, it was hard to see, because he's not the only person who wrote a love note to somebody, figuring it was between the two of them and not between the two of them and a few hundred million more people.
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Go yankee!
Fri, 07/03/2009 - 12:59 — adreamerinraleighYankee, you express my thoughts better than I do. Remember when they were better than us? George Washington?
Sad State of Affairs
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 13:52 — yankee1012The issue of Sanford - his Argentina lover - and whether tax payer dollars were used is the business of S.C. voters and Sanford's wife. Here's another guy (ugly as sin) going through a mid life crisis. Stuck in a seemingly loveless marriage/ house full of kids. He's lost all sense of responsibility towards his sons/ It's obvious this Argentina woman was most likely imagining the GOOD LIFE - American politician/ maybe getting paid?With the serious issues facing this country - INFOTAINMENT (no longer news) presents only the sensational, shallow or sexual exploits by these forever Frat boys! Take Clinton - disgusting. For me politics was over when this pig turned the Oval Office (ours) into the Oral Office, my God, with an INTERN a few years younger than his daughter. And the Clinton's were oh so careful to protect their own daughter from any criticisms etc. Other's children?
To be used for one's own sexual perversions! And LOOK - Clinton who never had a pot to piss in before coming to Washington is now a multi millionaire / This sexual deviant lauded with $250,000 for BS on stage (speeches) with Bush. They're ALL pigs...they have their 'starter' wives (McCain - Thompson - Gingrich - etc) and when they're through bearing the kids, putting their disgusting husbands through college etc ---the FRAT boys, now in the big time, drop them for TROPHY wives/ eye candy. I now understand Sodom and Gomorrah!