FACE IT

Are politicians Idealistic men and women who want to make the world a better place, or corrupt men and women who are self-serving and egomaniacal. Whatever your view on politics, there is one aspect of the lives of politicians that takes up more column inches than even the worst of political gaffes. Even as America tears itself to pieces over the issues of economic efficiency while the UK parliament reels from the MP expenses scandal, you can be sure that a good old-fashioned sex scandal would overshadow all these issue. Its has become a norm to add a sex scandal to ones political history as one attains greater political heights. The likes of Bill clinton, Strauss kahn,Arnold schwarzenegger,Mark foley and John edwards to name a few.
In previous posts,I discussed the cases of both Arnold schwarzenegger and Strauss kahn.


After months of denying the allegations, the onetime Vice Presidential candidate confessed on Aug. 8, 2008 to having had an affair with a 42-year-old aspiring actress turned political documentarian named Rielle Hunter, whom Edwards' staff had hired to make videos for his campaign. In a plot twist fit for a Jerry Springer episode, Edwards, whose wife Elizabeth had been diagnosed in Nov. 2004 with incurable breast cancer, vehemently denied fathering Hunter's child, as had been alleged in the Enquirer report, and offered to take a paternity test.


Mark Foley was a well-respected Republican congressman whose reputation was irreparably damaged in 2006, when news broke that he had been sending explicit messages to young male pages. One was as young as 16, and while there was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against him, there was enough sordid detail and innuendo to effectively ruin his career.


Once a political figure has been related to a scandal,his or her career is ruined.Whether the allegations turn out to be wrong or not,At such heights in life a scandal shouldn't be heard of. 
The question now is 'Do role models still exist out there?'.It is as though the microscopic spot light of fame not only illuminates ones virtues,but ones flaws overtime. This are people we voted for, listened to and used as examples of ideal lives.
We just have to face it.