Can someone else step down for Anthony Weiner?

Is he really that important?

Sure. I pick Obama.

Hackers just got all of congresses email, I don't think that they need to be throwing stones in those glass houses - every single bit of dirty laundry is about to be aired.

And all the major news agencies have gotten some great practice sorting through and analyzing the Palin emails!

At least that's what they're saying, as apparently they need to make it look like it wasn't the total, complete, and utter waste of time it was.

I don't expect to hear much, if anything, from the mainstream media. Just look at their pathetic coverage of the Wikileaks releases.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...d96b489512.cd1

Obama says Weiner should go.

Fabricating a story to cover up your sexting of a young woman isn't enough? Calling in every major media outlet and reiterating that pure fabrication is no biggie?

It's really not about the conduct but the cover up.

It's about both. Here's a married man who, presumably, took an oath of marriage to a woman and then fairly promptly broke that oath. Why would anyone assume he's good for his oath of office. Of course the lying only makes it worse. But it's about both.

Why don't the pair of them just disappear? Like, somewhere overseas?

Really? I haven't seen that reported anywhere. Or are you making unfounded assumptions?

True enough. Do we really want members of congress txting their cock around?


Don't worry democrats ... what you really care about is the vote in congress ... it wont change sides.

The second part about MJ's post is true (about the lying) but the first part is speculation, and definitely not "true enough". It shows a complete ignorance about what people do within their own definition of marriage. Who knows... maybe it was Mrs. Wiener posting the pics using her husband's account. Or maybe they posted it together. The fact is, you can't judge him for that. You can judge him for the knee-jerk defensiveness, however.

The difference with Republicans who get caught with their pants down is the hypocrisy. We don't see Wiener going around and saying how evil sex messaging is.

Why would another person be foolish enough to take Weiners punishment.Let him resign and be man enough to do it for himself not someone else take the fall.

want don't the GOP Party disappear for good overseas also.

I'd call it an educated guess. I assume that when he married his wife he took an oath. It's not uncommon. Granted, it is possible that he might have taken an oath that promised fidelity and faithfulness but included an option for sexting other women.

Interesting. But he's not coming out now saying how proud he is of doing this. How there's really nothing wrong with it. How he and his wife did this for fun. How this is just fine for them but it might not be for someone else. It looks to me like he knows this conduct is wrong but he did it anyway. Sounds a bit like hypocrisy to me.

To cop a phrase:

Liberalism: putting the rose colored glasses on immorality for decades.

Second! All in favor.....



Perhaps you could explain that? This notion that lying about sex or related issues doesn't matter is bogus, especially in light of what he did. He didn't just tell a lie...he engaged in a pattern of reckless, immoral behavior. Then he got caught. Then he conducted a premeditated Campaign of Lies, holding interviews in his office and lying to reporters, former girlfriends, friends, associates and everyone on the planet. The questions are:

1. How can anyone ever trust anything he says again?

2. Isn't he embarrassed enough to resign?

3. Where is the moral outrage? He sent pictures of his junk to women who were not his wife and had cybersex with them. Is this right? Does anyone care?

4. Don't you question his judgement? See #3. Would you say a member of Congress--a public office--who sends pictures of his junk over freaking SOCIAL NETWORKING sites has good judgement? Who could be so stupid in today's world? Wouldn't you question my judgement as a teacher if I put up pictures of myself on Facebook that were highly inappropriate? Of course you would.

5.Since there appear to be even more women and girls under 18 involved (at least one), doesn't that put him in a compromising position? Going back to #1...what if he really DID have sex with some of these women. What if the woman or women in question try to extort political favors out of him to keep that quiet? What if his political enemies contact those women and get them to do the same...or even threaten to release more details?

Now I know what you're going to say: SDW, you have no proof of that! This is, at least, what I think you and certain other posters (cough...tonton!) will argue. Well you're absolutely correct. But this also goes back to point #1...how we can believe anything the man says? His word is clearly crap. He's already shown a willingness to lie to avoid embarrassment. How can be sure a this member of the U.S. House of Representatives isn't compromised professionally?



You have to be kidding me. By that logic, it's possible their definition of marriage allowed Bill Clinton to the be the father of their child. Hmmm?


As I've stated, this is a clever thing Democrats have done. They take no moral stand, so when they get caught failing, they aren't hypocrites. Kudos!

Anthony Weiner can NEVER resign and the picture posted by E# shows exactly why. He takes the entire Democratic party and turns them into a reality television show mixed with South Park!

Obama Beats Weiner!!! Obama is already going to be recorded as a failure of a president. Why not give all the future college kids something to snicker about while they are paying off our 40% larger national debt in just three years!

It's not the oath that matters, actually. It's the definition of 'faithfulness', silly. No provision needs to be made for sexting if the couple's understood definition of cheating doesn't include it.

I don't know about others, but I really don't care what their marriage allowed. He's a still a public servant who's judgement was so bad, he used social networking to send pictures of his dong. Then he lied about it. A lot. This is one pathological liar that demonstrates amazing stupidity.

Fair enough. I understand that some on the left like to squish around the traditionally accepted meanings of words (like "faithfulness" and "freedom" et al).

But, again, I'm going on an educated guess here. I've never met a woman for whom this kind of conduct would be expected or acceptable from their spouse or serious boyfriend.

Granted my experiences may limited and, perhaps, I don't meet enough liberal democrats for whom this kind of conduct is just fine.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-..._b_874221.html

And many other places as well.

Pppppth! That's some stupid bullshit from you.

This, I don't care about.

This, I object to.

That he broke an oath in his marriage? Are you somehow party to the oath they took and the understanding of fidelity they had?

Try Kasidie.com

Now, I'm not a swinger. Until my wife and I agree otherwise, that's over the line of infidelity in our marriage. But if you are aware of much in this world, it must be that people can be happily married, and faithful, and still have sex with other people, much less flirt explicitly online. And lots of them are conservative Republicans. Well... financially conservative, anyway.

I already admitted that I'm aware that some like to squish around the traditionally accepted meanings of words like "faithfulness." Those on the left do this most frequently. I suspect those conservative Republicans you're referring to in your example are simply being hypocritical...but the liberals just change the meaning of the words.

Yea that's always the refuge for democrats in these things. The hypocrisy card. Weiner was a bit of a moralizer though as a crusader against objectifying women. Go look up his objections to some public art.

How about the meaning of the word "conservative"?

I don't care in terms of what it means for his marriage. What I do care about is that he could be stupid enough to do that as a public figure. I mean, really? He actually considered the risk of discovery to be acceptable? Or was he just reckless? Either way, his judgement is abysmal.


You know, I'm sorry, but I don't think you do. You've been pretty clear in the past that lying about a marital issue doesn't affect one's job and shouldn't cause a person to resign.

What about it? I suspect it is a label that gets applied broadly and incorrectly in many cases. I also think it is a label claimed by some who clearly do not behave that way in reality.

From the article...
Supposedly Abedin knew about Weiner's sexting tendencies before they married, and accepted his explanation that he would stop after marriage. That was wishful thinking. Women (and men) tend to delude themselves that marriage will somehow change their mate's character.

Don't know if there was an oath, but there was a promise by Weiner implied here. This has been fully reported on by multiple media sources.

Jeez... did YOU read the article? The author is no more privy to the Wiener marriage than you are. Didn't you see the word, 'supposedly' right there in your quote? It's supposition that's the problem.

Honestly, that article is absolutely idiotic for a number of reasons.

I have read multiple articles on this actually. And seen at least one interview where his wife had stated this. This was the easiest to find article that referenced it. You made a claim it was not reported on. But I misunderstood your claim, it does not list the vows taken at marriage, but it does speak to promises that apparently had been made. If you do a little more looking, you will find that it is indeed in other articles as well. And if you don't like the source, you will find other sources that report much the same thing in a different story format.

Really? This topic interests you that much? Whatever shakes your maraca, apparently...

Great! That's the information I'm asking for. Can you point me to where this was reported, instead of speculation in support of an argument against my criticism against speculation? Thanks.

This is priceless. You ask him for sources. He provides one. You try to take that apart. He explains he's read more. Then you mock him.



I want to live in your world tonton...the world in which the the assumption and the norm is exceptional corner cases of women who marry men and don't actually get (or apparently want) any serious vows of fidelity and faithfulness and/or their definitions of fidelity and faithfulness allow for us to take pictures of our cocks and send them to other women including and especially porn stars.



This guy's a classless, thoughtless, lying, untrustworthy, slutty cad. Just admit it and move on.

Regardless of his marital situation, being a public figure he admittedly must have known he would have gotten lots of flak had his silly tendencies become public. I'm not arguing with you there. He made his bed and he should lie in it. But people should stop judging him for anything other than being careless, and then reacting in a wholly dishonest way.

That's wishful thinking. People will each judge him based on their own moral code.

Umm, when I post here I have taken to doing a bit more research before I post knowing the people that post here and their tendeancies towards doing what you have just done. I can say I have not seen the pictures of which the post is about and have no desire to, but ia m interested in how his wife reacted especially given some here saying it was not a big deal.

I would have to search for that interview as I did not see it on the web, it was on CNN I believe when I was riding on the Rose Fleet Naval vessels this past Thursday it was playing in their dining area. Over and over again... \