Do people ignore.. Foley?

Question

When he was quoted saying: "18 is the magic number,', should we just think maybe he's gay, and the worst thing he's done is talk dirty to people?

Nobody obviously thought it was important enough to go to the media, for example.. as they were obviously not telling anyone about it.. why?

How can something be covered up.. and the people who were the alleged victims don't say anything.. all they had to do was say something.. in the 3 year space this has been allegedely been going on. If the Speaker of the house doesn't listen, tell somebody else.. like the police, maybe?

Answer 1

Why are people so obsessed with this? I turn on the news and I see more talk about foley than I do about N. Korea having tested a nuclear bomb.

I'm sorry, but the possibility of a madman in charge of a communist country having nuclear strike capabilities worries me a lot more than what a gay man messaged to a few 17 year olds.

Just goes to show where people's priorities lay. I mean, seriously, who cares, worry about the real issues at hand.

Answer 2

First off these kids were around 16 years of age, he is in his 50s. That is sick.

He should have been investigated a long time ago, but no, nothing happened. The only reason why nothing happened is the GOP leadership accepts that kind of behavior from their members. Those sicko supporters are just as guilty.

To top it off, you are a sicko too for defending them and their actions.

That sicko ex-congressperson prey on little boys, and you are saying well its OK they were close to 18, no one thought it was a big deal. Well, sicko, it is a big deal. If you accept those people as your leaders you need to sit in jail too, because the only way I could see anyone defending them is someone who also likes little boys too.

Answer 3

His behavior was known by members of his party from 2000 till present. That is how it can be covered up. He was drunk and tried to get into the Pages' dormitory in 2000.

It is harassment because he was in a position of power over them and those jobs are covetted by young people wanting to get into government. (probably one of the most successful things one can do as a teenager.) Harassment is illegal. Those kids would be reluctant to come forward.

What he was doing was known by his party members and the people that knew did nothing to stop it. The time has come to hold this Party accountable the same way they would treat the Democrats if the shoe was on the other foot. No one can argue against the need for accountability in government. We all want more of that.

Answer 4

More important things going on right now...wake up and smell the mushroom cloud.

Foley will be investigated- tried if necessary. Nothing worth worrying about- not like he's in office...unlike other politicians. That will bring more accusations before it's all over with anyway.

Answer 5

Ignore foley? Hes getting more attention than anyone in the media right now.

Answer 6

even the page he supposedly had sex with was in his 20's when he they had the "physical romance", Its already sliding back in the minds of people, what cracks me up is an article I read today that the investigation is going to be a wide spread through congress investigation to see if there were others doing improper stuff......democrats shot themselves in the foot in this one...

Answer 7

In our current government it is ALL about keeping power. Nothing else matters.
Vote everyone OUT!

Answer 8

Have you not been watching any news lately. It's everywhere, even up here in Canada.

Answer 9

“My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.” —Thomas Jefferson

Sin and Foley
In the early days of 2001, amid the hasty removal of the letter “W” from White House keyboards and the theft of the presidential china from Air Force One’s galley, the departing President Clinton was busily dispensing no fewer than 176 last-minute presidential pardons to convicted criminals from sea to shining sea. One of these was for Mel Reynolds, a former Democrat congressman from Chicago. Reynolds had been serving a five-year federal sentence for fraudulent-loan and campaign-finance practices, having completed a 30-month sentence for 12 counts of statutory rape of a 16-year-old campaign volunteer.

Clinton pardoned Reynolds at the behest of Jessie Jackson, who then snatched up the sleazy pol to work for his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Of course everybody remembers Bill Clinton’s infamous affair with 21-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky—let’s call that the “Clinton legacy.” Perhaps fewer, though, recall Jackson’s sordid four-year affair with a subordinate, one Karin Stanford, a staffer with Rainbow/PUSH.

So let’s get this straight: A disgraced congressman who’d had sex with a subordinate received a pardon from a disgraced president who’d had sex with a subordinate at the behest of a disgraced clergyman who’d had sex with a subordinate. And what was the Honorable Mel Reynolds’ new position with the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition? Youth counselor.

Back to the present. Last week, Mark Foley, the Republican representative of Palm Beach, Florida, resigned when evidence of his homosexual advances toward underage House pages came to light. First, let’s be clear about Foley’s despicable behavior: There’s no excuse for it. For years Foley has made a career as an advocate of children against sexual predators, even authoring the most recent House legislation to that effect. Foley’s instant-message exchanges with the House page in question are graphic and wholly degenerate. If he has broken any laws here—and it is possible he has—we hope that he is prosecuted to the limits of the law, preferably under a law he himself has authored.

It is now apparent that both Mark Foley’s homosexuality and his affection for male pages were open secrets in the corridors of Capitol Hill. If House Democrats were truly concerned with the welfare of these young pages, why didn’t they expose Foley long ago? Are we to believe it pure coincidence that Foley’s sins came to light at such a propitious time for the Democrats, just weeks before a crucial midterm election?

Second, Democrats—and their accomplices in the media—apply an outrageous double standard in political sex scandals. When, in 1983, Democrat Rep. Gerry Studds’ homosexual affair with an underage page was publicized, not only did he refuse to apologize, but he also called a press conference in which he appeared side by side with his 17-year-old conquest, defending his act as a “mutually voluntary, private relationship between adults.” Studds was censured, but being from Massachusetts he was re-elected five times. At about the same time, when Republican Rep. Daniel Crane was found to have committed statutory rape with a female page, he too was censured—but voters from Crane’s state of Illinois had the good sense to remove him.

Another fine Democrat of the Massachusetts delegation is the all too out-of-the-closet Rep. Barney Frank, who once employed a live-in call-boy lover named Steve Gobie. Frank paid Gobie $20,000 to work as a personal aide while Gobie, a convicted felon, ran a homosexual-prostitution ring from Frank’s apartment in the 1980s. When the House convened for disciplinary action against Frank in 1990, only two Democrats voted to censure him. In both cases, Democrats controlled the House and failed to act against these most wayward of members, who not only violated the chamber’s ethical standards, but also broke serious laws in so doing.

It’s clear, then, that issues of sexual impropriety don’t faze Democrats any more than do serious breaches of national security or selling cocaine from the House Post Office, as happened under the Democrats’ watch in the late 1980s. They see Foley’s folly only as a political opportunity to drive a stake through the heart of the Republican leadership four weeks before the midterm elections. Tellingly enough, Democrats haven’t called for an investigation into Foley’s actions, but they were quick to call for an investigation into Speaker Hastert’s response

Answer 10

you are so right.
and so is iswd1