It was best to get this out there right at the top and they seem to have handled it straight-forwardly. In context, I don't see much of an issue, or anything that's going to linger for Paterson and his Wife ... unless McGreevey or his dirt bag driver suddenly claims to have done some combination of them, too. As for the new NY Gov, marriages can have problems. If they worked their's out, good for them.
The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs.
In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago.
Wait a minute. Where is the reference to B. Hussein Obama?? I thought it's all all Obama all the time for you patriots? Maybe this guy went to the same madrassa as B. Hussein? You know those black folks like to stick together. Where's the journalism???
Posted by: BobInStamford | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 07:44 AM
It's truly sad that we force these people to reveal every speck of dirty laundry.... this situation is private, and wholly incomparable to a sitting Governor breaking the law with a prostitute. I don't get why some people can't see the difference between what we have a right to know and what we do not. Seems everything is fair game for public consumption these days.
I wish the new Governor and his wife the best of luck.
Posted by: KayCee | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 07:45 AM
"Abstain from all appearance of evil." (1 Thessalonians 5:22, KJV)
"Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." (Hebrews 13:4, KJV)
It really is an awful thing that both the public at large, and our elected leaders, are so unfilled in our marriages that we feel the need to abandon our wives and husbands for a fleeting dalliance with strange partners.
God's word has more to say about the blessings of a Christ-centered marriage:
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1 Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to live a celibate life. 2 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
3 The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs. 4 The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife.
5 Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 I say this as a concession, not as a command. 7 But I wish everyone were single, just as I am. But God gives to some the gift of marriage, and to others the gift of singleness.
8 So I say to those who aren’t married and to widows—it’s better to stay unmarried, just as I am. 9 But if they can’t control themselves, they should go ahead and marry. It’s better to marry than to burn with lust.
10 But for those who are married, I have a command that comes not from me, but from the Lord. A wife must not leave her husband. 11 But if she does leave him, let her remain single or else be reconciled to him. And the husband must not leave his wife.
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(1 Corinthians 7:1-11, NLT)
Posted by: seekeronos | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 08:47 AM