Obama Keeps Distance From Sanford Scandal
Efforts to get comments from White House aides have mostly failed
White House officials are keeping their distance from the adultery scandal swirling around South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. Efforts by the media to get a few comments from presidential aides have been mostly unsuccessful since the scandal broke this week. "I'm just not going to go there," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told U.S. News yesterday.
Asked about it by reporters at a media breakfast yesterday, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel tried to make a joke. "The guy could have used a cigarette," Emanuel said, then dropped the matter. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, who is governor of Virginia, also was discreet. "It's a family issue," he said during a radio call-in show on WRVA in Richmond, Va., yesterday. Kaine said he knows Sanford and his family from the governors' service in the Southern Governors Association. "I just really felt sad for them," Kaine said. "And that still is my main reaction." He added, "People in office have the same flaws and foibles that average folks do, but your life is not your own."
A White House senior adviser told U.S. News that Obama doesn't want to pile on. Democratic strategists say that the GOP will be tarnished by the Sanford scandal through coverage by the media and that the administration should stay out of it.
- Read 10 Things You Didn't Know About Mark Sanford.
- See photos of Obama behind the scenes.
Reader Comments
Let's introduce "ecumenism" as a Pro-Life strategy
"Ecumenism" is a word that means churches of many faiths --some opposed to others--work together to achieve a common goal that helps them all. It always includes common strategies that create, increase and keep tithers. Undeniably and historically, the Roman Catholic Church leads Ban-Abortion political action that made it a possessor of fantastically huge wealth--vast MATERIAL assets. Ecumenically, Jews,
Baptists, Evangelicals, Catholics, etc. take turns at invocations, inaugurations, etc. They're paid and pensioned at officer grade. Ecumenically, they demand and get tax exemptions, vouchers and other unpatriotic privileges. They're a tremendous tax burden. They repeat the Lord's Prayer. "Give us this day our daily bread at taxpayer expense. Forgive us for greedily doing this. Lead us not into the temptation of asking for more than the ten per cent tithe." Standing together, they get away with this because we have no godless lawmakers guarding the public purse.
Does Obama's Christianity make him give gov. a pass?
My view of Obama, not as a private citizen, but as Chief Executive, is that he must be a Creationist or he wouldn't refer to Scripture as if all its misinformation--lies--are true. Ours is a kingless republic but he wants us all to be UNDER God--SUBJECT to HIm as if we're serfs--BENEATH His royal feet even though he isn't supposed to have a body. There is no God. There is a money-making industry based on the enormous ten per cent tithe collected from believers. There is no "soul." it was invented so preachers--for a price-- can "save it from being burned in Hell." Obama can reduce taxes by ending laws that let churches sneak away from paying taxes. They invest money they keep from escaping taxation-- then they scold godless nations that make believers pay all their "costs of worship." Sanford emphasized his Christianity and it seems the President is "giving him a pass."
Obama is clueless, but talks alot of sh$T!
The man of transparency has no comment? of course not! This man is more corrupt and a bigger cheat and liar as anyone who ever lived! He is a smooth talkin' unqualified FOOL!!! With a houses entire square footage of closet space full of skeletons in his closet........
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