What does infidelity in someone else’s marriage have to do with me, asks Dr Leslie Cannold, a writer, researcher and ethicist with adjunct positions at Monash and Melbourne universities.
Mark Sanford
Lessons in History: Disappearing politicians
Those holding civic office have had a distinct tendency to wander off into parts unknown. Does power drive a man (or woman) into the yonder? History writer Mike Stutchbery investigates.
Guy Rundle: Palin will be back, oh yes she will…
Palin’s proud know-nothingness may have thrilled the guns-n-god crowd, but intelligent conservatives knew that she lost far more votes than she gained.
Ten political scandal survivors
Will he go? Won’t he go? As Govenor Sanford’s political future hangs in the balance, 10 politicians who survived a public airing of their dirty laundry, writes Daniel Finkelstein.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s American bites: Sixty and out … Climate bill cut-up … Justice Denied? … Sanford and Sin
Guy Rundle observations from the land of the free.
What about Mark Sanford’s privacy?
What should have us all in some kind of uproar is the fact that South Carolina Governor Sanford’s private emails are being broadcast all over the world, writes Lee Siegel. And yet the media is just snickering.
Republican governor’s Latin loving makes for a sexy story
On Tuesday, US media started to bubble with the story that the Republican governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, had gone missing. Just a wacky little yarn, we thought. And then…
politicians behaving badly Guy Rundle: The Deliverance of Mark Sanford
South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, missing for five days, has just confessed that he has spent the whole time with a mistress. No no stay here, it gets better. Much better.
South Carolina Governor admits affair — GOP weeps
Governor Sanford’s teary admission of an affair comes just after Nevada’s Senator John Ensign admitted the same. That’s two potential, eloquent 2012 Republican presidential nominees shamed in two weeks.
