Here's John Edwards' official statement about his affair. What a revealing document this is, especially this bit:
In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic. If you want to beat me up - feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help.
Oh, vomit. What an unmanly, self-degrading statement. If you want to beat me up -- feel free. Me, me, me. I hate this therapeutic culture. Take it to Dr. Phil, you vain, narcissistic, faithless half-a-man.
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He who lives in glass house should not cast stones.
Three coins in the fountain time, ha'penny? And before noon on a Sunday, even! Exit, stage left!
- Snag
What was it exactly that the Bible said about forgiveness again?....Wasn't there also something in there about casting the first stone? I may have read that in there somewhere as well. I'm almost sure of it.
The feeling of moral superiority the author of this article finds is no less narcissistic really.
While I find Edwards' behavior reprehensible, I find misleading the American public into an unjust war, condoning torture, and killing innocent civilians to be just as reprehensible as an act of adultery. Who commits the bigger sin here?
Remember Romans 3:23? We are all in the same boat here and if you're blogging from this conservative Christian angle, I'd just remind you to go over your playbook before you start pointing fingers.
Morality is complex. Reflect on the story of Hester Prynne, the Scarlet Letter:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/scarlet/summary.html
I think it's far more morally reprehensible to go about defending with all your vigor the mass murder of innocent children with no right to choose anything than a war where people are CHOOSING to fight.
The babies murdered in abortion have no right to choose anything! ..And that is worse than any of the things mentioned above.
That said John Mccain's affair was decades ago when he was a young man and I promise you it was not with a hooker while his children waited for him at home and it was not during the time he was in office...HUGE DIFFERENCE. You Clintonites still can't figure out why it sets a bad example for an elected leader to turn our government buildings into brothels with our tax money??
By the way Rod Dreher is NOT cheating on his wife and IS at home taking care of his children...Therefore I believe he has the right to get upset with an ultra hypocritical leftist blowhard like Edwards who exerts so much immoral influence on our youth and who clearly pushes his leftist doctrines to make it easier for him and his fat cat friends to buy up the daughters of American taxpayers!
"Liberal" or "conservative" one must agree that this man deserves a bit of perfect hate for his massive ego..something he shares with Obama, but is yet another example of how he differs from Mccain!
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