FTA: First, please answer the first part. If you think that lying on a resume is wrong, then we agree. Do you feel that the way that a politican represents himself in his/her campaign is similar to a resume in the public eye?
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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
It makes the most sense - to me, anyway - to draw the line where the misrepresentation is not material to political claims or political actions.
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And where would that be? How is hypocracy in someone personal life not going to affect their public decisions? If nothing else, they are ripe for blackmail. At best, they have pyschological issues that will certainly affect their public/political stance.
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Originally Posted by FTA
A lie about the politician's sex life - provided that it's all legal - is about as material to his political life as a lie about his parenting skills. Even if the voters think otherwise.
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Unless they are pursuing legislation that affects/restricts/immorlizes aspects of American citizen's sex lives, when they themselves partake in that lifestyle. I fail to see how it's not relevant. However, I can see we're not going to agree here, so let's scrap sex lives for a bit.
Where do you fall on the bigger picture. Is there any private action a person could take, where they pursue a diametically opposed public political agenda, where you would feel there private hypocracy was relevant?