Political Power and Sex Scandals

Political Power and Sex Scandals

How adultery and other transgressions affect support for politicians on both sides of the Atlantic.

It’s happened before and it’ll happen again. Still, every time one of our politicians admits or is discovered to been involved in some unethical sexual encounter, there’s a pause. We wonder why so many people, or should we say, so many men, with political power seem to risk so much so often, and to what extent, if at all, do sexual transgressions undermine a politician’s credibility with voters? As we sort through those issues here, across the Atlantic political implications abound in the aftermath of criminal charges against the head of the IMF who had been widely expected to be a strong contender in the next French presidential election. Please join us for a conversation about political power and sex scandals.

Guests

Randy Cohen

former writer, 'The Ethicist' in the New York Times Magazine

Michele Swers

associate professor of government, Georgetown University

Sandra Sobieraj-Westfall

Washington editor,
People Magazine

Eric Pape

reporter, Foreign Policy Magazine

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by isitpoetry

As for the accomplishments of this French maid person.
Car·i·ca·ture - as a cruel impersonal,
short ponied, char·is·mat·ic is it a predator?
This… Strauss-Kahn...
French presidents need a job some how, she described.
Rubbed with that $1,300 every night every one wants a show
and the maid caught between.
Loved only in French,
it is meant that it turns over with the belt made of leather.
As for him and her victim, there it is grasped.
Short this tall order not to be in the wrapped chocoholic,
his box is not acceptance thereof.
Removing her stocking it is tried and moving this victim.
Underestimated, which is chosen is she powerfully.
Leaf of small-numbered mossy green, the area and.
Where the bush of fire is to many.
And now criminal is prosecution.
As for the wood of old oak tree, O' rooted victim, It contacted with.
O' Two degrees being when opened on the battlefield,
above near the full moon, by the root of mid-evil, violence.
True when Tired and Tried is the press of Allegedly.
Can she, will she be bought off, to settle this amicably?

Is It Poetry

May 19, 2011 - 12:45 pm

U.S. Justice_will_be_Served_in_Maids

by isitpoetry

As for the accomplishments of this French maid person.
Car·i·ca·ture - as a cruel impersonal,
short ponied, char·is·mat·ic is it a predator?
This… Strauss-Kahn...
French presidents need a job some how, she described.
Rubbed with that $1,300 every night every one wants a show
and the maid caught between.
Loved only in French,
it is meant that it turns over with the belt made of leather.
As for him and her victim, there it is grasped.
Short this tall order not to be in the wrapped chocoholic,
his box is not acceptance thereof.
Removing her stocking it is tried and moving this victim.
Underestimated, which is chosen is she powerfully.
Leaf of small-numbered mossy green, the area and.
Where the bush of fire is to many.
And now criminal is prosecution.
As for the wood of old oak tree, O' rooted victim, It contacted with.
O' Two degrees being when opened on the battlefield,
above near the full moon, by the root of mid-evil, violence.
True when Tired and Tried is the press of Allegedly.
Can she, will she be bought off, to settle this amicably?

Is It Poetry

May 19, 2011 - 12:47 pm

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May 20, 2011 - 4:13 pm

Tallahassee

This lock from hell I could be framed, atone.
Unknown to they the human race must run.
In Tallahassee, names, and games astound it.
No gentleman with honor would sit without it.
It by they is always thought out methods sure.
Lawyers make up language no one understands.
A womans honor to her husband be secured.
There laws, though some are made from fear.
a Shepard of thine sheep they only flock are mocked.
Using fear to keep our virtue safe,
and under lock and throw away the key.
Schools costs to much and guards come cheap.
By they I breath and live I fear to be alone.
But now to bring the matter home.
Some there spouses, knew, lived long to roam.
With good men some turn bad,
and then comes infection the law is raped.
And babies thrown away my life they take.
They have learned the Roman creed to ape.
English law presumed it once, I do not know.
But all of this is fallow when each chair is vain.
My love always once knew their end to gain.
That god will not insure my unjust cause.
He still protects the Righteous, keep his laws.
For he has given unto me your art.
And can't refuse me any thine, your hearts.

Create Date : Saturday, May 21, 2011

Is It Poetry

May 21, 2011 - 9:15 pm

This article helpful to me, thank you!

May 23, 2011 - 2:25 am

Maturity is reached when the big brain can overrule the little brain.
Very few humans reach maturity as is evidenced by this sort of news.

May 23, 2011 - 11:19 am

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