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Reply With QuoteAnd before he was even the President at that!Originally Posted by Pippin69
As the Prez, you are now held responsible for everything in the country. Somehow, Jacko's death will ultimately have been caused by something Obama said, did, felt, or thought.
And before he was even the President at that!
Some people in the media were whining about why Obama didn't make a public statement on MJ's death. I was like WTF?
^^Maria's eyebrows need their own zip code.
Lol, on other websites there is a completely different looking woman, apparently someone went to facebook and searched and this woman with the same name came up:
Will the real Maria please stand up
Lol, on other websites there is a completely different looking woman, apparently someone went to facebook and searched and this woman with the same name came up:
Will the real Maria please stand up
Maybe Mark Sanford can use his dick to make a proper ID.
Speaking of Sanford it looks like he's still trying to have his cake and eat it, too:
Defiant SC gov considered resigning, but won't
SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford gave thought to quitting, retreating from public scrutiny to rebuild his life as the scandal of his extramarital affair with an Argentinian woman came out, he told The Associated Press Sunday.
Close spiritual and political associates urged him to instead fight to restore his constituents' and his family's trust and finish out the 18 months left in his last term.
"Resigning would be the easiest thing to do," he said he thought.
He's sticking it out and faces endless questions about the affair, whether he used public money to visit his lover and whether his 20-year marriage will continue. Add to it a barrage of criticism from South Carolina politicians who think the two-term Republican should step down.
"Part of walking humbly is you've got to listen to your critics out there," the 49-year-old Sanford said. "And all of us will have critics, and the higher you go, I suppose, the more critics you have."
Sanford spoke exclusively with The Associated Press outside his family's beach house on Sullivans Island. He, his wife, Jenny, and sons were in separate cars, headed to his family's farm where his 83-year-old mother lives in Beaufort, an hour south.
The governor admitted last week to a yearlong affair with the woman from Argentina who he says he's known for about eight years. Later Sunday, 41-year-old former television reporter Maria Belen Chapur acknowledged in a statement that she had been having a relationship with the governor.
Sanford looked like a man of leisure in faded khaki shorts, T-shirt and bare feet. But behind the casual attire, he appeared contrite and spoke of falling from grace and rebuilding his life.
"I am sorry," he said. "I apologize for letting everyone down."
The Sanfords say they will try to reconcile. One person they've sought help from is their spiritual counselor, Warren "Cubby" Culbertson, whom Mark Sanford thanked during the news conference in which he admitted his affair.
Reconciling with fellow lawmakers and constituents also lies ahead. Some lawmakers want his resignation because he secretly visited his mistress during a state-funded 2008 trip, and because he was out of touch with his staff during his recent weeklong visit to Argentina to see her. His staff had told the public he was hiking the Appalachian Trail before the real story of his mysterious absence came to light.
Sanford has agreed to reimburse the state for some of the more than $8,000 in taxpayer money spent on the Argentina leg of the economic development trip to South America last year. On Sunday, he repeatedly said he never used public money to see the woman.
Chapur, a divorced mother of two sons, said in a statement to news network C5n of Buenos Aires that said she will not talk about her private life, which has already been the focus of intense media scrutiny in the U.S. and Argentina.
Chapur, a graduate in political science from the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, said someone accessed her Hotmail account without permission late last year and leaked e-mail correspondence that described a relationship with Sanford to the South Carolina newspaper The State.
"I have decided to send this statement to clear up certain incorrect things that are being reported, and put an end to a matter that, as you imagine, is very painful to me, my two children, my entire family and close friends," she said in the statement addressed to anchor Eduardo Feinman, who read it on camera. Feinman was Chapur's editor when she worked briefly as a television reporter in 2001.
When it comes to his critics most notably Republican state Sen. Jake Knotts and their calls for him to step down, Sanford said he understands where they are coming from.
"I don't begrudge the Jakie Knottses of the world," Sanford said. "He's going to do what he's going to do. I gotta do my part."
The governor's efforts to stay in office appear, in the minds of some lawmakers, to hinge in part on his ability to salvage his marriage. While several critics wants a criminal probe and others want him to step down, reconciling with the first lady does have sway among legislators.
"That's almost become a proxy for how some are looking at this. They're looking at Jenny," said state Sen. Tom Davis, a Beaufort Republican and former Sanford chief of staff. "In large measure, it depends on how things work and how people see things are working out between the governor and first lady."
As far as his marriage, Sanford said he and his wife are working on it.
"If there wasn't healing going on, I wouldn't be here," he said, pointing to his beach house, where he had dinner with his family Saturday night and where he took a run at sunrise on the sand with one of his sons.
Sanford added that he has been overwhelmed by the support he's received.
"It's only in the hard times you get a sense of how blessed you really are," he said.
Regardless of what politicians in the Statehouse think, his Sullivans Island neighbors are supportive.
During Sunday's interview, several folks stopped to say hello as they strolled by on their morning walks. One man, driving a golf cart festooned with red-white-and-blue decorations, paused to invite Sanford and his family to a Fourth of July celebration.
"How are you?" the man asked Sanford. "Considering the circumstances, all right," Sanford replied with a wan smile.
Defiant SC gov considered resigning, but won't
God, I know I'm silly for thinking the dude needed love but really, read his letters. For a conservative man pushing 50 to write like a teenager in the throes of his first crush somehow got to me. I'm not of the school that anyone who cheats is automatically a dirtbag. Sometimes people do stupid shit that's based on real feelings and this just strikes me as one of those times. God, I am so ashamed.
'Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.' Ben Franklin
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." --Sinclair Lewis
Yes, it's stupid, but people did the same thing to Bush, trying to blame him for every problem under the sun. Presidents aren't that influential.
Only the good die young.........................
bitches like me live forever!!!!!!!!!!!!
No one ever blamed Dubya for somebody else having an affair.
Really what was blamed on Bush? And what did he take responsibility for?
For the first time in 5 years, I caught 35 secs of Bill O'Reilly the other day and he actually said it was unAmerican to pursue Sanford's hypocrisy? I thought that should hold me for the duration of his career. Braying jackass.
YouTube - Bill O'Reilly Blasts Media Coverage Of Gov. Sanford's Affair
(Here it is, if you can stomache it)
If i hear one more personal attack, i will type while drunk, then you can cry! - Bugdoll
(716): I'd call her a cunt, but she doesn't seem to have the depth or warmth
I don't care about his affair, but, IMO, he should resign for abandoning his duties as the Governor of South Carolina.
Exactly. I could care less about the affair, that's his wife's problem. But abandoning his duties as Governor, and using taxpayer money to go see his mistress, should cost him his job.
Andre Bauer can NOT become the governor. I don't care if Sanford uses his expense account to get a rim job from Divine Brown, he has to finish his term.
Were there multiple women?
Sanford Women: Article Alludes To Multiple AffairsMaria Chapur has admitted to being South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's mistress. But is she the only one?
Libby Spencer, a blogger at the Detroit News, points out that Sunday's article in The State describing how the affair blew up alluded to multiple affairs.
A reporter called a Sanford staffer, saying the paper had e-mails that outlined an affair between the governor and Maria. Unless Sanford would address the issue privately, The State would have no choice but to ask him -- with TV crews filming -- if he knew Maria at his press conference that afternoon.
The names of two other women tumbled into the newsroom. [...]
And more names of women were coming in over the transom. The total was at three and counting.
"Women?!" [Former Sanford Chief of Staff Tom] Davis responded, sounding incredulous. "Women?!"
The article does not elaborate on the other women.
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