Bizarre Obama Affair Rumors

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Krisken

Krisken

The Mex said:
It's actually refreshing to see someone take Gas' points without just plugging their ears and screaming "YOU'RE A TROLL I CAN'T HEAR YOU"...
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I'm hoping you're not talking about me. If so, you obviously haven't been paying attention for the last year of he and I going back and forth until one of us lost interest.

I agree with him on this. The persons private life does not reflect their time in office. I will say it only bothers me when they specifically run on a platform that is essentially 'holier than thou' family values.
 
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Soliloquy

The Mex said:
It's actually refreshing to see someone take Gas' points without just plugging their ears and screaming "YOU'RE A TROLL I CAN'T HEAR YOU" because, at least in this case, he's completely right. Sex life is a private matter that has no effect whatsoever in an individual's abilities or morals.
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Well, I try to make it a point to not argue in order to prove myself right, but to argue in order to figure out who's right.

And, gorramit, Gas had a point.

I still think that cheating on a spouse reflects very poorly on someone's morals, but maybe that has nothing to do with whether someone can govern effectively.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Soliloquy said:
I still think that cheating on a spouse reflects very poorly on someone's morals, but maybe that has nothing to do with whether someone can govern effectively.
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Their morals when it comes to personal relationships... which are very different to having what it takes to lead a country or run a company.


Of course hiring hookers while sponsoring anti-prostitution bills is another kettle of fish.
 
GasBandit

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Yes, I suppose I should amend my position to say that I don't think anybody's sex life should impact their professional (or political) life, unless of course, they're pushing something about banning/not legalizing aspects of sex and marriage. THEN it becomes pertinent, and only if there is a contradiction.
 
Calleja

Calleja

But that's true of everything. Someone whose campaign rallies strongly against marijuana being found blazing up would be just as pertinent. It stops being purely a private matter and is a glaring contradiction in the politician's position.
 
Jay

Jay

They put pass laws to deny the ability for this 3rd rate newspapers from writing this type of shit. In fact, do something about the fucken paparazzis as well. They are a bane to society. As a Canadian, I find it fucken weird as fuck to see 50-100 people following people around as they go about doing normal things, like get a coffee at Starbucks or doing some Groceries then pass judgment on them on a fucken loser show like TMZ and make slow-wit sarcastic comments about what they are wearing, what they were doing or how these people react to all this harassment.
 
Norris

Norris

Jay said:
They put pass laws to deny the ability for this 3rd rate newspapers from writing this type of shit. In fact, do something about the fucken paparazzis as well. They are a bane to society. As a Canadian, I find it fucken weird as fuck to see 50-100 people following people around as they go about doing normal things, like get a coffee at Starbucks or doing some Groceries then pass judgment on them on a fucken loser show like TMZ and make slow-wit sarcastic comments about what they are wearing, what they were doing or how these people react to all this harassment.
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In America, we are guaranteed a right to free press. So long as they tell the truth and you're a pubic figure, nothing can be done. Sucks, but the alternative is worse/
 
David

David

Yeah, where would we be in a world without paparazzi flashing several dozen cameras at once at a driver causing him to crash and kill the occupants?

Okay, yeah, I know that was a stretch, but seriously, I think we can reach a compromise where can guarantee a free press WITHOUT guaranteeing the press the right to stalk somebody. I don't think putting more restrictions on photographing or publishing photographs of people without their permission would bring us closer to China's government-fed media system. Journalism existed before cameras did, after all.
 
Troll

Troll

If you want to stop the paparazzi, you must eliminate the demand for celebrity gossip and guerilla photos of stars in their everyday life. People consume this trash at an alarming rate, so there's an incredible incentive for photographers to be more and more outrageous. I don't know how to fix it and make people stop being so fucking stupid about celebrities, but until someone does there won't be any real way to stop the paparazzi without burning the constitution.
 
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