Which is worse a President who commits adultery...?

Question

with a consisting female of legal age or a senator who solicits (and it'll probably come out that he actually had relations with one of them) underage boys?

Oops, excuse me! CONSENTING adult. And this has nothing to do with my political beliefs, but let's face it, the outcry from the Conservatives on the hill for Foley's indiscretions has been far less than the attack on Clinton's morals.

Answer 1

I know exactly why you're asking the question. They have tried to insert that President's actions into this debate. However, they forget that while what said President did was an egregious abuse of power, unethical and immoral, it was not CRIMINAL. The young woman involved was just that. A woman past the age of consent.

Answer 2

Well, you're obviously a "Clinton-loving liberal". Both are wrong. (And I think you meant "consenting female".) I always find it funny that Bill Clinton has so many supporters, even though he really accomplished nothing as president except to let our security, intelligence and military communities suffer crippling cut-backs that paved the way for 9/11. Remember Somalia? Remember Bosnia? Remember the U.S.S. Cole? In each case, no perpetrators were found or punished. Made the U.S. look like a paper tiger.
If Foley broke the law, he should be punished. But don't tell me that Clinton didn't have his fingers crossed behind his back when he took the oath to "preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic"!

Answer 3

The hypocrisy of the Republican Party is very transparent as they try to minimize the Foley scandal, apparently forgetting that they spent millions of taxpayers' dollars on impeaching a President who lied to Congress and carried on a sexual extra-marital dalliance with a consenting adult (something that at least 50% of members of Congress have also done, but have just been lucky enough not to get caught).
An adulterous politician is commonplace, and - while certainly not anything to be dismissed lightly - such an affair is not a threat to the safety of minor children.
What Foley did was far worse, and checking himself into an alcoholic rehab center for a month is a worthless gesture. But the Republicans will try whatever "damage control" they can to help retain power int he mid-term elections. Clinton was a philanderer, a pig, and a womanizer. Foley was a pedophile and sexual predator who preyed on young boys. He deserves his special corner in Hell.
I don't listen to garbage mouth Rush Limbaugh, but I can almost hear him trying to excuse this as something not relevant to the political system, blah...blah...blah. Sorry, Rush, but your drug-demented mind can't possibly belittle this as something trivial. Foley - and ALL politicians like him, Democrats or Republican - deserves the full wrath of the people. He's a vile, evil piece of crap, as are all the Republicans who tried to cover it up, who try to minimize the significance ot this scandal, and who try to defend it just to save an election. -RKO-

Answer 4

Do you mean "with a conSENTING female of legal age"?

Obviously the senator is worse, if only for the reason that the boys are underage. If the President in question hadn't been married, what would've been the problem? That is between him and his wife, but the senator issue is a whole -nother ball game!

Answer 5

I believe if anyone commits adultery that's for them to deal with (family.God,etc) but that shows us how the world is today.I believe that man needs to charged with a crime just like they would do to any old Jo on the street.But of course he is a Republican and if George Bush can kill people by the thousands than of course he will get away with it.Sometimes I feel embarrassed to be an American.Our children are sacred and precious and this man is a down right pedophile!

Answer 6

History is chock full of presidents who committed adultery. For every powerful politician, there is a CONSENTING woman (or man) who will give him/herself to him. The keyword here is "GIVE!"

Foley ought to spend some time in San Quentin, rather than a posh recovery hostel.

Answer 7

Senator.... Underage children being solicited is far worse of a sin than adultery. Or that's my opinion anyway.

Answer 8

The Congress Man

Answer 9

Mark Foley, Republican of Florida, was caught sending very explicit sexual messages to 16 and 17 year old boys who worked as pages for Congress.

Actually, he was caught by a fellow Republican, Rodney Alexander, because one of the pages worked for Rep. Alexander and turned Foley in. So, what did the Republicans do about it? Absolutely nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

They covered it up. Because it's what they do.

The Republican Protection Racket stepped in and made the story go away. There was no public apology to the boys that were sexually harassed. No criminal investigation. No ethics investigation. Not a word.

The Republican leadership knew for most of the year. In all that time, while other kids could have been exposed, while they knew of several instances of sexual advances toward underage boys - they did nothing!

Now, they feign outrage. Why weren't they outraged when they first found out about it? They're not outraged because young boys were jeopardized. They're outraged now because they're jeopardized.

But it gets worse. They left Foley in charge of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. Come on!

If you put it in a movie about a corrupt Congress, I wouldn't believe it. It's too over the top. You'd walk out of the theater saying, "That's too much. No one would do that." Apparently they would and they did.

Remember this is the same Republicans who spent 140 hours investigating Bill Clinton's Christmas card list. I'm not kidding. They even started an investigation into his cat. If you put it in a movie, no one would believe it.

Not one investigation into what's gone wrong with the war in Iraq, the $9 billion dollars missing in Iraq, why a CIA agent's name was leaked, why Osama bin Laden hasn't been caught or any of the corruption scandals. But they spent 140 hours on the Clinton Christmas list (it turns out they were just Christmas cards, in case you were wondering). They're not even trying to appear fair. They think there's nothing you won't let them do. They're in charge and they can get away with anything.

Now in this case, I think sex scandals are a dime a dozen. Mark Foley resigned. I'm not that interested in that story. He could have been a Democrat, a Republican or a Federalist. Every party has people that do terrible things. This isn't about that.

This is about a Republican Party so corrupt there's nothing they wouldn't cover up to protect their own. If that means your money is misspent or stolen, fine. If that means some Congressmen commit illegal acts to get rich off your back, fine. Apparently, it also means if your kids are exposed to a sexual predator while they are supposed to be learning about our government, even that's fine.

He was supposed to be protecting him. He was Chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus!

After all this, they still covered for him. They didn't even take him off the Exploited Teen Caucus. They left him in charge. Because they don't care. They don't care about anybody but themselves. They are driven mad with power. Their only goal is to stay in power. Now, the question is, are you going to let them get away with it? Are you going to let them keep that power, knowing what they've done with it?

Answer 10

The senator by a land slide. Clinton was just a frustrated man that panicked, when he was caught with an intern of legal age. The senator was just lucky that Chris Hanson of Dateline didn't catch him walking in to one of his pedophile stinges. The man is just plain sick!