SHORT COMMUNICATIONS 301
Presidential Infidelity
By
Roger Behra
Soon, November, 2012, it once again will be national election time in America to elect again the current president or to unseat him in favor of someone new. Meanwhile, all the new candidates (6) in the opposing party (Republicans) are publically debating each other to see who will be the representative candidate. All the American media in the meantime are doing their best to leave no stones unturned. Everything is being made know on a daily basis-the good and the bad.
This time around one stone that has definitely been turned over is fidelity of past presidents and the current group of candidates. And there are stories to tell.
Presently, the news media is obsessed with the serial affairs of these men. The news media is known to lean heavily towards liberalism, and all the candidates who want to unseat Obama are conservative. That helps to identify the reason for the media´s obsession.
One of the candidates reputation is severely marred for several reasons: He has married for the third time. He has participated in three separate marital dramas, one that included adultery. Another candidate is being pressured to drop out because he is being dogged by continuous revelations that he was many times an adulterer. So far the four remaining candidates appear to be clear of any known infidelity.
It is on record that America´s history is full of past unfaithful presidents, a few who cold suppress their unfaithfulness upon entering the White House, long before Bill Clinton was found guilty of his dalliances and unfaithfulness as president and to his wife, Hillary. John Kennedy was having an affair with a nineteen-year-old female intern at the time of his assassination. Franklin Roosevelt and Warren Harding allegedly had been unfaithful to their first ladies.
When certain people becomes part of our lives out of need and necessity: parents, priests, policemen, teachers, neighbors, businessmen, and politicians, faith, trust, and respect are given to them all. And when that is violated through immorality, infidelity, dishonesty, or insincerity, it becomes personally and culturally disturbing, alarming, and discouraging to say the least. All these crimes of moral turpitude have become more common. The news media is full of it on a daily basis. And when the behavior becomes part of an American president or a presidential candidate, it is the very lowest end of the moral scale and more than just symptomatic. It is absolutely intolerable, and it cannot be acceptable at any time.
R. B.
2-14-12