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UtahDan · 08-09-2008, 04:32 AM

As I have been driving today I have been blissfully unaware of the John Edwards nonsense because, as I often am, I have been tuned into BBC news. They have been covering the two actual news stories in the world today: the opening of the Olympics in China and the arrival of Russian troops and tanks in South Ossetia, a break away Georgian province and the real possibility of war between Russia and Georgia.

So having heard all I could about that, I decided to click over to CNN, Fox News and some other news stations on XM to get the American take on these things and all I find, and I mean all, is wall to wall coverage about some irrelevant former presidential hopeful having banged a skank a few years back. I have zero love for this guy and this just inks that he is a piece of garbage, but seriously WHO CARES? This is all our news outlets can talk about?

What is it our culture that makes us love so intensely watching the rich and powerful twist in the wind and what makes us so fascinated with their sexual escapades? I'm no high handed cultural moralist, but I do find our voyeuristic tendencies disgusting.

ute4ever · 08-09-2008, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by UtahDan

WHO GIVES A RATS ASS?

Republicans do. They hope it negatively reflects upon Obama's campaign.

Gidget · 08-09-2008, 02:38 PM

Yes, this does reflect badly, very badly on John Edwards, but he doesn't hold a public office, and he isn't running for one. So as he is or was a representative of our country, can we honestly say that what goes on in the bedrooms of plain ol' American citizens should really stay in their bedroom and is of no business to anyone else? and is he considered a plain ol' American citizen at this point? hmmmmmm . . . .

RC Vikings · 08-09-2008, 03:38 PM

Who is surprised by this? She looks 15 years older then him, she's a little heavy and he seems pretty shallow and selfish but I agree who care's?

YOhio · 08-09-2008, 03:41 PM

I rejoice in the personal and professional failures of others. It definitely makes me feel better about myself.

BigFatMeanie · 08-09-2008, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Gidget

Yes, this does reflect badly, very badly on John Edwards, but he doesn't hold a public office, and he isn't running for one. So as he is or was a representative of our country, can we honestly say that what goes on in the bedrooms of plain ol' American citizens should really stay in their bedroom and is of no business to anyone else? and is he considered a plain ol' American citizen at this point? hmmmmmm . . . .

Edwards is a perpetual candidate for office and, up until this affair, was a possible selection for the VP nomination. Thus, I would disagree that he is a "plain ol' American citizen" at this point. If he lives for a year like a plain ol' American citizen - not writing books, running for office, going on the public speaking circuit, etc. - then I would consider him a plain ol' American citizen and wouldn't care if he had one hundred affairs.

SeattleUte · 08-09-2008, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by UtahDan

As I have been driving today I have been blissfully unaware of the John Edwards nonsense because, as I often am, I have been tuned into BBC news. They have been covering the two actual news stories in the world today: the opening of the Olympics in China and the arrival of Russian troops and tanks in South Ossetia, a break away Georgian province and the real possibility of war between Russia and Georgia.

So having heard all I could about that, I decided to click over to CNN, Fox News and some other news stations on XM to get the American take on these things and all I find, and I mean all, is wall to wall coverage about some irrelevant former presidential hopeful having banged a skank a few years back. I have zero love for this guy and this just inks that he is a piece of garbage, but seriously WHO CARES? This is all our news outlets can talk about?

What is it our culture that makes us love so intensely watching the rich and powerful twist in the wind and what makes us so fascinated with their sexual escapades? I'm no high handed cultural moralist, but I do find our voyeuristic tendencies disgusting.

America's "voyeurism" is the other side of some of its citizens' incesant high handed cultural moralizing (John Edwards actualy an erstwhile example), as you are wont to fall prey to. Your BBC-name dropping doesn't fool us. Clearly it's John McCain's and John Edwards' womanizing that rivets your attention.

08-09-2008, 04:32 AM	#1
UtahDan Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Bluth Home Posts: 3,877	John Edwards: WHO GIVES A RATS ASS? As I have been driving today I have been blissfully unaware of the John Edwards nonsense because, as I often am, I have been tuned into BBC news. They have been covering the two actual news stories in the world today: the opening of the Olympics in China and the arrival of Russian troops and tanks in South Ossetia, a break away Georgian province and the real possibility of war between Russia and Georgia. So having heard all I could about that, I decided to click over to CNN, Fox News and some other news stations on XM to get the American take on these things and all I find, and I mean all, is wall to wall coverage about some irrelevant former presidential hopeful having banged a skank a few years back. I have zero love for this guy and this just inks that he is a piece of garbage, but seriously WHO CARES? This is all our news outlets can talk about? What is it our culture that makes us love so intensely watching the rich and powerful twist in the wind and what makes us so fascinated with their sexual escapades? I'm no high handed cultural moralist, but I do find our voyeuristic tendencies disgusting. __________________ The Bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go. -Galileo

08-09-2008, 02:38 PM	#3
Gidget Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: With Surfah Posts: 329	Yes, this does reflect badly, very badly on John Edwards, but he doesn't hold a public office, and he isn't running for one. So as he is or was a representative of our country, can we honestly say that what goes on in the bedrooms of plain ol' American citizens should really stay in their bedroom and is of no business to anyone else? and is he considered a plain ol' American citizen at this point? hmmmmmm . . . . __________________ I am a philosophical Goldilocks, always looking for something neither too big nor too small, neither too hot nor too cold, something jussssst right. I'll send you a card from purgatory. - PaloAltoCougar

08-09-2008, 03:38 PM	#4
RC Vikings Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Rexburg, Idaho Posts: 2,236	Who is surprised by this? She looks 15 years older then him, she's a little heavy and he seems pretty shallow and selfish but I agree who care's? __________________ "I always rode to my limit. If I won by three minutes, that's because I couldn't make four." Eddy Merckx

08-09-2008, 03:41 PM	#5
YOhio AKA SeattleNewt Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7,055	I rejoice in the personal and professional failures of others. It definitely makes me feel better about myself.