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Now that John Edwards has admitted to his affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter, the big test looms again before the American public: Do we care? Do we think it matters? Do we believe that there should be any code of conduct or moral standard for those in public office, even if it is the highest one in the land?
Justifications for political improprieties abound. There are historical ones: "Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, etc. had moral failures, so what's the big deal?" There are also personal ones: "We shouldn't judge. No one is perfect. Who are we to point fingers?" ALERT: A GOP Betrayal on "Drill Here, Drill Now" Energy Policy? Under the guise of a "compromise" energy bill, a "Gang of 10" Senators - including five Republicans - are working to undercut the American people's demands for more domestic energy production. Here's what Rush Limbaugh said about some of the details of this so-called compromise bill: "The regulatory hurdles are huge... PETA has a role. The ACLU has a role. The bill bars drilling within 50 miles of the United States coastline. That puts off limits some of the most productive areas ... including in ANWR. ...This deal would allow drilling if... the EPA and PETA and states and cities and counties and the ACLU clear the way." This is not "compromise" - it's SURRENDER on the issue! TAKE ACTION NOW! |
Don't misunderstand me. I believe in personal redemption. I myself have experienced it, as I wrote about in the chapter "A sin that became a blessing" in my autobiography, "Against All Odds," in which I discuss an adulterous one-night stand in the early '60s that resulted in my wonderful daughter Dina. That is why I hope, as he says, John Edwards truly has asked God and his wife for forgiveness, and I pray for their restoration and the long road that results from it.
But then again, John Edwards continues to minimize his culpability by playing linguistic and moral dodge ball. He lied to his closest colleagues and the public for nearly two years about the affair. And even in his confession last week, he doesn't call it a "lie," a "sin," an "affair" or "adultery." Rather, he repeatedly calls it merely a "mistake" or a "serious error in judgment." Is that all it is? You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites If ideas have consequences, then it follows that bad ideas have bad consequences. And if bad ideas are written down in books, they are far more durable, infecting generation after generation and increasing the world's wretchedness. That's why we'd all be better off today if the books in Professor Benjamin Wiker's Ten Books That Screwed Up the World (and Five Others That Didn't Help) had never been written. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these are the books whose impact has been felt chiefly in the form of war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. Witty, shocking, and instructive, Wiker seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day, offering a quick education on the worst ideas in human history-and how we can combat them in the future. Click here to find out how to get Ten Books that Screwed Up the World (And Five Others That Didn't Help) for FREE! | 
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