What Part of Economic Disaster is Spelled
I-N-F-I-D-E-L-I-T-Y?
by Richard Spisak,www.opednews.com

Re
Senator Edwards statement

While some people find simple human frailty incomprehensible, or worse an
unforgivable theological lapse, I am inclined to be more generous.
Senator Edwards', lapse
of professional decorum, seems to me completely unrelated to his concerns about
the economic imbalances and disadvantages suffered by the working class.

His failure to maintain the integrity of his vow of monogamy seems to me more
important to his wife and family than a matter to be resolved by the electorate
or the chattering class.

Hyperventilating about morality seems out of place except in republican
political discourse. Whose high moral standards are represented by republican
leaders like Newt Gingrich (multiple divorces & infidelities) , John McCain
(infidelities & divorce), Henry Hyde (infidelities & divorce) and let's
not forget some of the specialists like Congressman Foley, Senator "WIDELY
MIS-UnderSTOOD"  Larry Craig, and Congressman "diaper king"
Vitter.

Do I think infidelity is a bar to good leadership? No, I don't think it is.
What concerns me even more is this dilemma. I have seen republicans go to great
lengths to discredit democratic contenders. I am more than a little concerned
that republicans have an agenda to discredit all serious democratic candidates
just before the election. (Maybe using simple human weaknesses)  Since
they have no actual case for an honest campaign.
 I hope I am
overly concerned.

But plans to discredit dems have been in-play since Nixon, and Attwater and
Rove use the same crooked playbook.

I don't want to wake up the week before the election, to find that there are
"I.E.D.s" planted in every democrat's path. If we see this take place, there
can be no doubt we will again be facing another
republican coup 'd e'tat.

That troubles me far more than the lapses admitted by Senator Edwards.
Personally not only do I believe that many marriages are rescued by honest
admissions like the one by Senator Edwards, but I find his morality even
yet,  far superior to the moral flyweight, currently occupying the
"torture stained" offices at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, by the gift of
a partisan Supreme Court and his brother's Secretary of State.

solidarity & peace
rick spisak
AveryVoice