Zippers

When I entered the workforce after college my Dad tended to give a lot of advice or as my brother and I termed it, "the benefit of his sage wisdom." As boys we were often to told by him when he was ill humored with us, "I've told you enough to make a lawyer out of you!" Since he wasn't a lawyer we couldn't figure how he knew exactly how much a lawyer had to know. Anyway back to my point. One important thing he did say, and one that I adhered to all my working life was, "Don't look at the world through the fly of your pants."

What brings to mind now is the latest stupidity of John Edwards'. (Her photo upper left corner) What is mind boggling to me is how these guys think that they can shag some sweet thing and the world never be the wiser. To prove that most do not get by with it, check out this list: Marc Dann - Ohio Attorney General - extramarital affair / Paul Morrison - Kansas Attorney General - extramarital affair / Eliot Spitzer -Governor of New York cavorting with a prostitute / Kwane Kilpatrick - Detroit Mayor - extramarital affair / Antonio Villaraigosa - Los Angeles Mayor - extramarital affair / Gavin Newsom - San Franciso Mayor - extramarital affair / Jim McGreevey - Governor of New Jersey - homosexual extramarital affair / Bob Wise - Governor of West Virginia - extramarital affair / Paul Patton - Governor of Kentucky - affair / Gary Condit - (D-CA) affair with intern / Newt Gingrich - (R-Ga) - affair with congressional staffer / Bill Clinton - President of The United States - whatever it was with Monica Lewinsky.........HAD ENOUGH?

The pity is that I could list dozens more. These are men that we expected better of. These are men who proclaim from roof tops their stand on morality, common decency, mother and apple pie. Oh "they're just humans with normal human frailties" they say. Well in my way of thinking, when a person stands for election, he/she must be beyond reproach personally as well as publicly. In other words, keep your zipper tugged all the way to the top. These are no longer the days when men like FDR, JFK amd LBJ can have their little flings while we look the other way. We ought not and will not take it in stride any longer.

My last thought. How the hell did Elizabeth Edwards have the nerve to stand by John's side after she knew of his acts of adultry and tell the world by her presence that he was the best moral person to lead our great nation.