He should still step down.

Pathetic husbands help create pathetic wives.

This Vitter thing reminds me of when Hillary Clinton stayed with Bill during Monica-gate because it was more important for Hillary to further her own political career than to do the right thing.

In an attempt to paint Barack Obama as Elitest Hillary Clinton has made a miss-statement of her own that has got herself into hot waters. The problem though is you have to remember Hillary Clinton is only human. When she makes mis-statements we are suppose to forgive and forget not like Obama. Those are the Clinton rules!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/12/hillary-becomes-a-gun-lov_n_96396.html

"You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl," she said.

"You know, some people now continue to teach their children and their grandchildren. It's part of culture. It's part of a way of life. People enjoy hunting and shooting because it's an important part of who they are. Not because they are bitter."

Did Hillary Clinton just pull a Nick Romney out of her pocket?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/nra-lobbyist-de.html

Will Clinton be able to sell this new self to gun rights enthusiasts and hunters?

"Her name is synonymous with gun control, like Rosie O'Donnell," says Cox, so she will have "a very, very tough time."

Hillary Clinton a life long member of the NRA who has a gun in one hand and a bible in the next!
Hillary Clinton, Because only God can save us from seeing images of Hillary Clinton with a gun!
http://www.nohillaryclinton.com/blog/blog_images/gun.jpg

I think the photograph of a woman with a pained expression on her face exemplifies all that is wrong with today's focus on a candidate's family.
But--when they do bring their family up--it's pretty much fair game when something major goes wrong.
And in today's narrowcasting world of blogs, you'll get some particularly vicious comments even years after such things would seem 'fair game' by legitimate journalists.
Not so with the gobama crowd (and perhaps Obama HQ?) At least the 'untruths' in the moniker stolen from me from a rabid victim of Stockholm syndrome (it's going around at Obama HQ I guess)
is accurate.
I like For Better or For Worse today--there's a great cartoon today with the two middle-aged women talking about how hard it is to forgive--and how important it is to keep a marriage together and raise kids.
It reminds me that one failing of Obama is his lack of parenting time--it builds the forgiveness muscle like nothing else, I think.
So forgive me if I'm posting something below that people visiting other blog topics here in the 'narrowcasting' world that is blogs.
But I do like hearing legitimate responses to something I spent a lot of time researching and writing.
And if the blog manager decides to post it, then so be it.
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Democrats had better hope that Obama's comments at the christian school last night never paint him into a corner.
His performance recently provides even more evidence that this nationally unvetted candidate cannot be the top of our ticket. HRC is NOT the enemy.
What’s wrong with waiting 8 years, Obama and Gobamas? Wait for LBJ’s 3rd generation of Dixiecrats to kick the bucket.
I used to say that. And I may say that again.
But, give a listen to the audio posted by Mayhill Fowler (the not so pretty girl recently on the bus who savvily recorded the disturbing speech in California).
It’s a disturbing speech and shaking a ‘you are naughty’ finger at Hilary Clinton will not work.
In fact, the whole strategy for ‘dealing’ with his comment disturbs me even more.
Because, there seems to be a pattern emerging from not just the Obama campaign, but from the lips of Obama himself:
Exclude from the ‘movement’ or otherwise silence the non-enthusiastic or
‘offending’ middle aged white or elderly women.
Listen to the audio Mayhill recorded—and be sure to thank her and show your support for her. She will need it, if Tavis Smiley is any example of how people non-conforming to the Obama message of ‘hope’ get treated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-exclusive-audio-on_b_96333.html
His comments to the crowd that we need ‘new people’ in the Democratic party kind of chilled me to the bone. I find him very intolerant. I find his campaign intolerant. He responded to a question about his ability to really unite the party after such a divisive campaign by saying that “people get their feelings hurt” and they’ll be back (basically).
I don’t think that’s the case. People left his campaign because we felt it was using the wrong strategy and felt (but couldn’t quite put our finger on WHY it was fundamentally wrong-minded.
In his speech last night, in which he mentioned that ‘abstinence” and teaching appropriate behavior would be a good idea—heck—the people he BASHED last night have been speaking about this stuff for years! In fact, the Planned Parenthood crowd in Kalamazoo, Michigan (who later came to Chicago) managed to get a K-12 systematic sex education curriculum passed in the late 1970s. The JOHN BIRCH society worked to get it removed from the schools—and the Planned Parenthood clinic was actually bombed.
Would 70s style peaceful activists be part of the mature crowd Obama now wants replaced with his Gobama crowd? No. Not if he can help it.
That’s what it’s looking like to me.
Particularly when I heard Obama last night say talk about the pro-choice people he said were reluctant to infuse a “moral dimension’ into the abortion issue.
Patently false. Shame on Barack Obama.
Shame on him also for the recent clarification that in fact he DID attend a Muslim school (the public schools in Indonesia were like the community—women didn’t have to wear the veil, but…) seems like he was earlier being less than forthcoming. Even in liberal Islamic settings, women have a back of the bus status. I do NOT think Obama has been honest enough about this.
I think he’s sexist. Not just for the relentless bashing of Geraldine Ferraro, but for something really revealing in his speech last night, he ‘could not remember’ whether he’d had a conversation with his daughters about God. Well, if you’re in a 50’s throwback marriage where mommy is the main person interacting with the kids when they’re not in the expensive, enriching U of C daycare---then you perhaps are leaving a lot of that stuff to the wifey.
And perhaps that’s why Michelle (back when she let reporters cover her fund-raising) cut loose with the “ladies against women” style rant against Hilary (“How can she handle the White House when she ‘can’t manage’ her own house (sic).”)
The problem with sexism or any ‘ism’ is the elitism at its heart.
But there’s another reason why the Obamas must mature more before they’re at the top of the ticket.
They’ve let the newfound celebrity go to their heads.
Call it the ‘diva factor’.
Bonnie Raitt (you might remember she and Jackson Browne played a New Hampshire benefit for John Edwards’ superior approach—since adopted by Hilary Clinton—regarding nuclear power, greenhouse gases, and whatnot) chafed at being called a diva on a blues show last night. She said it reminded her of the old saw “Don’t look Miss Ross in the eye as she heads on stage.”
Barack Obama as diva.
Annie Oakley at least was a class act.

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There go the Obamites again--bashing HIlary like Michelle did with the "can't handle the white house if yo' man's acting up" crap.
Give a good listen to brave Mayhill Fowler's audio recording of the messiah slipping and falling in an arugula smoothie in California.
Uniter my you know what!
Here's the url.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-exclusive-audio-on_b_96333.html

Nobody misusing a handle?
Must be the latest cliffs notes for bloggers are getting passed out at mobama hq!

Good god, she's standing there again!
Make him stand there alone. Once is enough! (I know, it's an old pic)

Beyond that, thank goodness Churchill or Roosevelt weren't judged by today's 'family values' Republicans. We would all be goose stepping around the town square.

But Jeff, why should he step down? He's a Harvard-educated Rhodes Scholar. That means he's brilliant and is, by far, one of the most qualified men for any position in Washington. After all, education IS the only thing that matters. Right?

"GOP "ELITIST" SPEAKS"

SO WHAT IF I DID IT IN A "STATE PARK"

SO WHAT IF I COMMITTED A "FELONY"

I'M A U.S. SENATOR! I'M NO ELITIST, BUT SO WHAT IF I COMMITTED "ADULTERY"
THAT IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN!

SO WHAT I'M NOT A GOVERNOR!

I'M A SITTING U.S. SENATOR!

I JUST COMMITTED A "SIN"

I DIDN'T BREAK THE LAW!
I DIDN'T BREAK MY "OATH" TO THE CONSTITUTION.

I JUST BROKE THE LAW, COMMITTED A SIN, COMMITTED ADULTERY, AND JUDGED NOT, BUT ONLY YOU!

I'M NOT LIKE THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA, OR THE PEOPLE OF LOUSIANA

I'M NO "ELITIST"

I'M NO GOP LAW BREAKING REPUBLICAN LIKE THE MANY IN THIS ADMINISTRATION.

I JUST SINNED! SO I GET A PASS GO STRAIGHT PASS JAIL GOP MONOPOLY CARD!

I HAVE NO OTHER INFORMATION AS TO ANY OTHER SITTING U.S. SENATORS THAT ENJOYED THE "FRUITS OF MY INTELLIGENCE"

"TO TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH" NOW!

So the only photo available was the one where she looks like a horse that is about to be put down. Is it me or is there some fixation with the portal of the "wife by your side" moment. In comparison he looks sane. They didn't have one of him with red eye or lids half closed. Wouldn't it be something if papers cropped out the wife from every shot in protest....

Nobody misusing a handle?
Must be the latest cliffs notes for bloggers are getting passed out at mobama hq!

Posted by: sojourner truth | April 14, 2008 6:44 PM

Aren't you missing your meeting at the Hillaryis44 club today?, I mean spaming the same BS over and over must take up alot of your spare time.

Alternate Caption:

(In Wendy's mind)

'The horror,,,,,,, the horror.....'

Nope, JB, character matters. If this man can't be trusted to not abuse the trust of his wife and family how can the people trust him not to abuse the power of his office?

Bill/Jeff,

Carol Shepp on Line 1.

Nope, JB, character matters. If this man can't be trusted to not abuse the trust of his wife and family how can the people trust him not to abuse the power of his office?

Posted by: Jeff | April 14, 2008 11:05 PM

Yes, Jeff how can we trust a man who would abuse the trust of his wife and family?

Let's say a certain politician, we'll call him "John", cheats on his wife and mother of his children, who is disabled, and then dumps her for a pretty heiress 18 years younger than him. Certainly John betrayed the trust of his wife and family, didn't he? You couldn't be so foolish as to trust him not to abuse his power, could you?