Chaim Amalek writes:
The American people are sophisticated enough to appreciate that high status men like presidents, senators, governors and Hollywood producers all have options for sexual infidelity that are not available to those of us forced to make do with booze and the internet, and that they often exercise those options. Hence, no harm, really, in the rumors of McCain and the thirty years his junior lobbyist except the embarrassment the knowledge of his friends exchanging knowing nudges, nods and winks behind McCain’s back. The real question is whether there was any sort of quid pro quo here, i.e. the exchange of bodily fluids for legislative favors. And on this critical point, the New York Times, despite its best efforts, simply failed to make the case or even come close. Luke, the American voter is not the Mr. Pecksniff you take him to be.
Regarding Obama, any moron with a $30 webcam and an internet connection can make a video and post it to YouTube. And what’s his proof, that he supposedly "passed" a polygraph test, administered by someone who has an interest in convincing people that polygraph testing is worth something? He might as well have asked an astrologer to demonstrate his veracity by reading his astrological charts. Polygraph testing is one of the great hoaxes of the age. Remember, the CIA traitor Aldrich Ames (like depressingly many others) repeatedly passed his tests even as he was betraying every secret he could get his hands on to the Russians. It will take a hell of a lot more for anything this guy says to influence those who might vote for Obama.
The thought of a general election in which it is more or less confirmed, by election day, that one candidate has been selling his votes to lobbyists for sex and the other has been snorting coke while having extramarital sex with other men is too painful to contemplate. But the evidence on hand today is that we shall face no such choice on either end.
