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JeffRapport's comments:
on Sam Scandal
This issue and the amount of attention it is getting speaks more to our warped society than it does to anything else. For most of my life, I have been blasted with images of anorexic young girls and teen-aged boys that are used to try and sell everything from cars to toothpaste. Shades of Clinton - Sam Adams goofed. It is bad judgement for an adult to get involved with an 18-year old. He will have to figure that out - Im sure this has been a lesson for him. When this comes up we feel obligated to say "We are shocked! Shocked I tell you!"
Give me a break. No one has broken a law. He has been publicly embarassed and I think we can be confident that he will be on his toes - and that is a far higher standard than most of us will ever reach.
Hang in there Mayor Adams. We live in a city of reason and reasonable people will move past this.
Give me a break. No one has broken a law. He has been publicly embarassed and I think we can be confident that he will be on his toes - and that is a far higher standard than most of us will ever reach.
Hang in there Mayor Adams. We live in a city of reason and reasonable people will move past this.
posted 4 years, 4 months ago
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on Sam Scandal
Barak Obama is the first visible politician in many years that does not seem to have a skeleton in the closet for anyone to discover - I hope none is found - but if someone asked me who I had sex with and I knew it would be published in the newspaper, I admit I probably would not be entirely truthful either. To blow this up into an attack on our mayor's character seems more than a little overboard to me. I trust Portlanders to think beyond the tabloid sensation of this and weigh the potential loss of a dedicated leader against the thirst for tabloid blood. We would do ourselves a great disservice to discard a positive leader in a time of crisis on a "charge" that has nothing to do with his ability - and I would venture - very little to do with his character.
I wonder how we allow Dick Cheney to flout the Constitution and get away without even being accused, yet we cannot wait to get on a bandwagon to eliminate someone on this kind of obviously politically-motivated "charge." Even if we concede that a lie about his personal life was some sort of "crime," I fail to see how the public good is served by tossing him out of office for it. He has served us for many years and this is the first negative thing I have ever heard about him - save from those who oppose him politically.
I hope the people of Portland are able to avoid being led into a bad decision because a (gasp!) scandal has occurred.
I wonder how we allow Dick Cheney to flout the Constitution and get away without even being accused, yet we cannot wait to get on a bandwagon to eliminate someone on this kind of obviously politically-motivated "charge." Even if we concede that a lie about his personal life was some sort of "crime," I fail to see how the public good is served by tossing him out of office for it. He has served us for many years and this is the first negative thing I have ever heard about him - save from those who oppose him politically.
I hope the people of Portland are able to avoid being led into a bad decision because a (gasp!) scandal has occurred.
posted 4 years, 4 months ago
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