Fairness to candidates?

Question

Someone asked M.Romney when he and his wife first slept together. If that is a fair question they why can't they ask Hillary if she knows how many affairs Bill has had?

Is it not a fair question to ask Hillary? For example do we want a president distracted by her spouses filandering about (sp)? Does the fact he has a sex addiction interefere with her ability to serve; does it put the nation at risk should he fall for someone that would leak information?

Answer 1

Great question!

Answer 2

fair has never been a strong suit with american news reporting check out this distortion

Daniel McAdams

Reading this weekend’s Washington Post piece on Blackwater founder Erik Prince, I came across a paragraph that perplexed me:

“Prince was a White House intern under President George H.W. Bush. His political donations over the past two decades total almost $263,000 to Pat Buchanan, Oliver North, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) and former senator Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, among others.”

What? Why would an individual who has profited to the tune of several billion dollars from the drug war and the Iraq and Afghanistan war be giving money to the most antiwar and anti-war-on-drugs Member of Congress? Catholic guilt?

So I decided to do some looking around.

First I went to the Federal Election Commission website and checked contributors to Dr. Paul’s presidential campaign. No Erik Prince.

Then I looked at Dr. Paul’s contributors to every congressional race since 2001 (pre-Blackwater bonanza days). No Erik Prince.

Then I cross-checked all of Erik Prince’s political giving, going back to 2001 on CQ’s excellent Moneyline website. Nothing.

Surely the reporter didn’t make this up?

Ah, finally found it! When Ron Paul returned to Congress in 1995 Prince gave $1,000. Then he gave another $1,000 the next year. Nothing since then. And Prince’s listed profession when he gave two grand to Ron Paul? US Navy!

That equals less than one-one hundredth of what Prince is said to have given to dozens of GOP recipients, yet somehow that same Washington Post that doesn’t seem to know that Ron Paul even exists saw fit to print it without clarification or explanation, leaving the reader to conclude that Ron Paul is just another candidate who gets money from the military industrial complex that he (pretends) to rail about.

This is called “disinformation,” and from Ron Paul to the wars they are shilling for against Iran and Syria, the Washington Post is proving itself a master that would have made Trotsky proud.

Answer 3

Good question. Another example is the media does not question Baracka Hussein Obama,Jr. about his Muslim connection. Is he an apostate? Is he a protestant? It is quite obvious that there is a double standard, inasmuch as it is politically correct to trash the Mormon religion, but it is unacceptable to question the Muslim/Islamic connection re Obama. The media has an agenda, and it is certainly not fairness. The question to Mitt Romney should have been answered by saying, "Next question". I personally don't care who sleeps with whom, or whether oral sex is sex, however, these affairs and events should be practiced after working hours and not on government (taxpayer's) time.

Answer 4

Well, I am neither a Dem nor a Rep, but I think it isn't really a fair or even terribly germane question. Honestly, what people do in their private lives should remain private. But in our prurient age, we feel we have the right to know the intimate details of every public person's lives.

We don't have that right, any more than the government has a right to know ours.

Cheers.

Answer 5

I don't think that is a fair question, but I think the point is that if you make a big deal about your religious ethics, people feel that they have a right to question you about it. The Clintons have never pretended to be religious moralists, so asking them about things which they didn't raise in the first place may be seen as unfair (and in the case of your question, it isn't even a question about Hilary's behavior, but about her husband's independent activities, which is completely unfair).

Answer 6

It's questions like the one you cited that distract us from how they will act as president. What has happened to journalists these days?
To answer your question, it's totally unfair and also irrelevent.

Answer 7

what..........who cares when who slept together...that goes to show u were people heads are these days, they care more about people's sex history then about if this person would be fit to run a country

Answer 8

I think that was a tacky question and should never be asked of any candidate.

Answer 9

hahahhahahah, idk