Former Congressman Mark Foley, who resigned amid allegations he sent inappropriate e-mails to teenage congressional pages, told a Florida television station that he has entered a facility for treatment of alcoholism. Foley said in a letter faxed to the station he accepts "full responsibility for the harm that I have caused." http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/02/foley.quits/index.html What are your comments on this:_
Is Mark Foley a gay man? The gay community thinks he is: ... Mark Foley is simply a gay man who has been forced out of office by the Democrat Party http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=15234
The question is how long did the Leadership know about this....and how long did they decide to let him prey on pages....while he could stay in office. All guys like this should be kicked IMMEDIATELY.
Gay is one thing. Trying to have sex in any way shape or form with 16 year old kids, boys in this case, makes him a pedophile. He is not something I want around kids ever again. Maybe he missed the dateline series on what happens to baby fuckers?
lets not forget about Barney Frank D-Ma(sex with a male prostitute) Mel Reynolds D-IL(sex with a 16 year old female staff member) and Bill Clinton D(Monica) , who ended up pardoning Reynolds.
It just proves that republicans not only do not learn from their own mistakes, they don't even learn from the mistakes of those they criticize. At least monica was an adult in the age sense of the word.
I don't want to be hostile. I don't want to be dismal. But I don't want to rot in an apathetic existance either. See I want to believe you, and I want to trust and I want to have faith to put away the dagger. But you lie, cheat, and steal. And yet I tolerate you. Veil of virtue hung to hide your method while I smile and laugh and dance and sing your praise and glory. Shroud of virtue hung to mask your stigma as I smile and laugh and dance and sing your glory while you lie, cheat, and steal. How can I tolerate you. Our guilt,our blame , I've been far too sympathetic. Our blood, our fault. I've been far too sympathetic. I am not innocent. You are not innocent. Noone is innocent.
"A congressman from Florida, 52-year-old Mark Foley, resigned today because of questionable e-mails he wrote to a former male page. The page was 16-years-old at the time. Out of force of habit, the Catholic Church offered to move him to another parish." --Jay Leno
Yeah, but they were democrats and it's acceptable behavior for them. Reynolds *actually* had sex with an underage page, then Clinton commuted his sentence (sort of defeats the current message from select people here) and now Reynolds is trying to run for office again. But, he's a democrat, so it's acceptable.
Not in my book. But don't try and make it sound like if a dem did it that a repub should be allowed to do it. Even you have to see how sick that reasoning is? A pedophile is a pedophile. PERIOD You are good at drawing deviding lines with your tit for tat. I'd have thought this one would be where you draw the line.
I am sorry but this would not be considered gay. He is called a child molester. There is a big difference between homosexuality and molesting.
Wasn't my intention in the least bit. Interesting you were able to (or at least pretend to) get that out of my message. I commented on it in the failed thread that guru-seo started here. It didn't go to well once the liberals found out that pervs like this are not limited in scope to a particular political party. I'm just enjoying the hypocrisy. I find the double standards intriguing. How about you?
I have to agree, double standards are not a good thing. More so when we are talking about middle age men in high powered political positions taking advantage of kids that volunteer time for them. Men taking advantage of male kids in this case. What is on the table now is what concerns me. I can't change the past, but hope that the future will be affected by the outcome of this gay pedophile being caught affecting anyone that does such a thing ever again. That it ends here and no more children are hurt.
Both political parties, along with all the networks new about this a year ago, sort of convienent how it comes out right before the mid term election.
This is going to backfire in a bad way on democrats. http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/10/now_dems_try_to.html Can you imagine, if democrats went after terrorists in this fashion? So far, all we have are accusations and democrats are going after Foley with far more energy than they've ever expended on going after terrorists or those within their own party that give aid and comfort to them. If dems treated terrorists like this, they'd have a serious platform to run on!