Sunday, August 10, 2008
Edwards redux
Further ruminations. I agree with all the very modern, hip and mature (ahem) people who say and probably mean that it doesn't matter to them/me whether anyone is having a sexual relationship with anyone else. I mean, it's pretty much the personal concerns of the people involved. (Unless, of course, it's someone in my own family and someone I love is getting hurt, in which case it matters a great deal.) But if a candidate puts it out that the issues that really matter to him and because of which he should be judged better than the others - all things that Edwards said over and over again, just by the way - are things like honesty and loyalty and so-called family values, and then he turns out to have flaunted them him (or her) self, well then it's pure and simple hypocrisy, isn't it? And there's another issue and that's the potential for being manipulated, blackmailed or (merely) influenced by the people who know but are inside the veil of secrecy (h/t/ Laura). And it would seem to me that someone who gets even a small thrill out of the excitement of an illicit extramarital relationship would be particularly susceptible to dangerous pressures and influence under such circumstances, as hokey and cold war as that may sound. Just saying.
Labels: 2008 election, modern culture, reflections
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