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Originally Posted by Gawker
I Had a One-Night Stand With Christine O'Donnell
Three years ago this week, an intoxicated Christine O'Donnell showed up at the apartment of a 25-year-old Philadelphian and ended up spending the night in his bed. Here's his story—and photos—of his escapade with the would-be Delaware senator.
I barely knew Christine when she turned up at my door at around eight o'clock on the night of Halloween. We'd met for the first and only time three months earlier when my two roommates and I signed the lease on our apartment: Christine's aunt owned the place we were moving into, and she happened to be up from Delaware visiting at the time. But we'd only spent about five minutes together that day and we hadn't spoken much, and I hadn't thought of her since.
Yet here she was standing outside my door with a friend. And both of them were pretty tipsy.
She asked if she and her friend could come inside our apartment to change into their costumes. She couldn't change at her aunt's place, she said, because she was sleeping and she didn't want to wake her up. Would we mind if she used our bathroom instead?
It was a pretty strange request. Sure, weird stuff happens on Halloween, but I barely knew her, and it isn't every day that someone shows up at your front door and asks to change into their ladybug costume. But I told her it was fine and she was welcome to use our place to get ready.
It didn't take long before the two women—who'd clearly been drinking—were sitting on my couch, beers in hand, trying to convince my roommate and me to join them for a night on the town. Christine was in the holiday spirit dressed in her ladybug outfit. Her friend, who had a female pirate costume on, was much more quiet and reserved. She barely spoke all night.
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This questions stems from the recent Gawker article about Christine O'Donnell's "one night stand" with a 25 year old that lived in an apt that her aunt owned.
She did what a lot of us have done in the past; went drinking with someone, got hot and heavy with them, passed out in an stranger's bed. This is not a big deal... except when your whole campain focuses around Christian values and no sexual contact before marriage. There have been a lot of attacks on her including her admitting she practiced "
witchcraft" at one point in her life.
She is mad that gawker posted this story (
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My question is, do these campaigning politicians have a right to be angry about these stories being posted?
You are in the public limelight, you are running for an office that will allow you to make choices that effects millions of people's lives on a daily basis (and could effect generations). The morals and ideals you stand behind will come under attack and people will go out of their way to disprove you. When you run for a public office, you better be able to defend things/events in your past, especially when it goes against your own campaign stances.
What do you think?