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INCESSANT MORALIZING
John Edwards has admitted to having a zipper problem. Ho hum. I have as much prurient interest as the next person but I can't get worked up over this sort of thing. Edwards lied about it for months so some folks are foaming at the mouth. I'm more concerned with pols who lie their way into wars and lie about how much they or their supporters have stolen than about zipper lies. Gary Hart would have been a better candidate than the uxorious Michael Dukakis and would have beaten fellow zipper liar Poppy Bush in the 1988 election. Zipper issues were off limits for GHW Bush as was shown in 1992. And it might have spared us the misrule of the Current Occupant.
Things like the Edwards admission bring out our least attractive national characteristic: the incessant moralizing of the chattering classes and even the proverbial man on the street. Moralizing isn't my thing, folks. I'm more than happy to mock pols like Vitty who have zipper issues but I'm not going to sermonize about it. People do stupid things and sometimes get caught. There's no need to pretend that one is perfect and incapable of either screwing up or screwing the wrong person.
I prefer the French approach. Recently, the French people were *upset* with President Sarko for flaunting his private life. They'd prefer their pols to be discreet and fermez la bouche about any zipper problems.
Oyster has more at Your Right Hand Thief.
Hey, people should be complimenting Edwards as a Democrat. His former
squeeze is obviously prolife, right? Repubs ought to love that.
I also like the approach of leaving people alone, as exemplified by the
French. Though they're not alone in taking it -- at the time of the
Cilinton scandals, I read that in Germany it would have been against the
law to even mention Monica, Paula, etc, because their privacy laws are so
stringent even for public figures.