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08-09-2008, 04:32 AM | #1 |
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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.
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08-09-2008, 02:10 PM | #2 |
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08-09-2008, 02:38 PM | #3 |
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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 . . . .
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08-09-2008, 03:38 PM | #4 |
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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?
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08-09-2008, 03:41 PM | #5 |
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