{"id":583,"date":"2011-11-29T20:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T02:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2011-11-29T20:04:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T02:04:59","slug":"laffaire-cain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/laffaire-cain\/","title":{"rendered":"L’Affaire Cain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really don\u2019t care about Herman Cain\u2019s affair<\/a>. Of all the reasons to not vote for him, and they are myriad, this doesn\u2019t even make the top one thousand. His love life is his own business and that of his family. We don\u2019t know the circumstances surrounding his relationships, or anything else of that nature, and frankly, it is none of our business. If this is something he kept from his family, the pain they are going through is enough without the punditry piling on.<\/p>\n

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But unfortunately for our politics, this is going to happen again and again. I can\u2019t forget what we went through in the 90s when we impeached a president over statements surrounding his affair. Many Republicans, including those in the Republican<\/a> presidential<\/a> field, made political hay out of Clinton\u2019s indiscretions. To not be held up to the same standards would, of course, be a bit hypocritical. I\u2019m not sure what Herman Cain thought of Clinton\u2019s impeachment, but it\u2019s clear that a lot of people on his side want to judge people based on their affairs. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.<\/p>\n

The worst thing about this affair, however, is that it\u2019s the affair, and not Cain\u2019s history of sexual harassment, which will be his downfall. Apparently, it\u2019s no big deal to use your power to harass women, but to engage in a consensual relationship with another adult is truly terrible<\/a>. I don\u2019t mean to downplay extramarital affairs or the hurt they cause; I\u2019ve seen the consequences. But I can understand that good people can have affairs because things happen. I can\u2019t understand, or tolerate, people who abuse their power and position to harass others. Say what you will about the particulars of the accusations against Cain, it seems to me that he did have a history of inappropriate behavior. That is far more troubling to me than an affair.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s sad to see Cain end his campaign in this way; like I said, I\u2019d rather see him lose because of his politics, not his personal life. Now he and his family are going to have to deal with the media scrutiny and the pain in a very public way. He did, however, bring it on himself to a certain extent. What I\u2019d like to see is a bipartisan time-out on the private consensual lives for all politicians so we can move past this. Until then, however, this perverse morality is what we will have to deal with in our politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really don\u2019t care about Herman Cain\u2019s affair. Of all the reasons to not vote for him, and they are myriad, this doesn\u2019t even make the top one thousand. His love life is his own business and that of his family. We don\u2019t know the circumstances surrounding his relationships, or anything else of that nature,… Continue reading L’Affaire Cain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[183,181,182],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bill-clinton","tag-herman-cain","tag-newt-gingrich","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}