Also, he knocked Bathsheba up again shortly after the whole ordeal.

Faithfulness is one part of the vow. It’s not a legal requirement, some people look the other way even. Or forgive.

Love, honor, cherish, maybe even respect. Oh dear lord, this cracks me up. And the in good times and bad, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer until death do us part.

How many people keep all of those vows? They are two humans trying to figure out who gets control of the remote and who takes a day off when their kid is sick. That’s reality, bub. What to do when they can’t afford their house, whether and how much to give allowance, if it’s time to fix the roof or get a new washing machine, and whether to name their baby, get this, Farmer or Elizabella.

You are really stretching the point of even making a vow, projecting your own values on everybody else. Yes, I really came to that conclusion. The office of a politician, who is in charge of carrying forth the duties and obligations of his office may be crooked or he may be honest. He may be mostly honest and only a little crooked. Meanwhile in his personal marriage side of life, he may never stray, but he gets mad when she shops too much and they run out of beer or she won’t let him watch football because there’s a Melissa Gilbert marathon on E! True Hollywood Stories.

We are all in the promise-making business. Whether or not we are governing as a true politician, we are microcosms of that promise, to abide by laws and with all our personal flaws, most people do right by their friends who elect them to be friends because they are a good person to know and don’t cheat them. We accept each other as not perfect and get on with our lives. We enter into agreements every day – I pay you money, you provide this service or product. I agree to the price, you provide certain guarantees of quality.

You are holding marriage, not just your marriage, but all marriages, up to an idealistic level, based only on words, words you meant when you said them to your wife, I presume. But anyway, when I do my job, I do my job. Some people do what they got to do, and some people push a little harder and are really stellar examples of how to go. Some people suck at it, this is usually the quality of person you get for the wages you can pay. Not everybody is keeping their end of the bargain, but apparently most of us are adequate.

I do think keeping promises is important to the best of one’s ability, but I think there’s a problem when you project idealistic notions onto other people’s relationships. Fact is, almost everybody finds someone who can stand them at all, and they get along ok. That’s the bottom line on those vows. Even politicians are people, but I believe for the most part, they are business-like people who do their job well enough, and also who may take credit for another person’s idea, smile and shake your hand when they really hate you, treat their staff a little too much like servants, feel entitled to perks they are allowed to take advantage of, and sit at their desk sometimes playing FreeCell.

In the first part:where you quoted someone else, “If you weren’t a Bible-thumper and were not using public funds to pay for your fling, then I’d say it was none of our business.” We have 2 things, a violation of a personal oath to a spouse, and a demonstrated abuse of power.

In the 2nd part where you tried to draw an analogy to Clinton, all you have is a violation of a personal oath to a spouse.

Sure both politicians can’t be trusted, as apparently all divorcees can’t be trusted. One of them proved that they aggregoiusly abuse their power for personal satisfaction.

I wonder if he has a WWDD bumper sticker on his limo; “What Would David Do?”

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