Indiana

Don?t Cry for Mark Argentina

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Here we go again!

Conservative Politician A, with Presidential aspirations and who loves to preach family values, gets caught with his hands, or other parts of his anatomy, in somebody’s cookie jar.

When will these people learn?

Whether it’s South Carolina Governor Mark Sandford, John Ensign, John Edwards, Elliot Spitzer, the list goes on, it never changes.

What makes matters worse is a good chunk of these individuals have built their careers on preaching morality and family values, but somehow they managed to miss out on having their own.

Although I am not a big fan of the family values crowd because I think a healthy economic climate is the best thing that can build strong families, they are still entitled to express their opinion and be part of the national debate.  But for crying out loud people, get with the program.

And for those of you who want to say all form of hypocrisy are equal, I am inclined to agree with you, but there is just something about sexual hypocrisy that real gets under Americans’ skin that they have a hard time letting slip by;  it must be our puritan upbringing.

And I have to say when I heard Sandford say “he spent the last five days of his life crying in Argentina” all I could think of was Eva Peron.

I don’t think anyone will cry for Mark Sandford, no matter how sad he looks.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).