How can McCain talk about the sanctity of marriage when he showed no respect for it.?

Question

Suppose to be stick by your wife through sickness and in health. His wife gets sick and he decides not just to leave her for a younger prettier woman but to first cheat on her during her illness. But he acts like he's holier than thou, whereas Obama has a loving together family.

Answer 1

People have their out of the house face and their in the house face and I really dont care if either candidate cheats on his wife...I want someone in the white house that can run this country and NOT forget about the people that put them in office.  Them being faithfull to their wives is their wives issues NOT mines.

Answer 2

I have to say I'm not an Obama fan! that being said, you are right!! McCain has the balls to talk of something he knows nothing about! When he Hillary lost, I honestly thought of voting for him, but when i read that story the word Hypocrite was screaming in my head. So if he did that to his wife, with whom he took a vow in front of God, what would he do to us? with whom he has no connection with?

Answer 3

Agreed.  McCain and also Edwards for that matter have shown what they are really made of.

Answer 4

Do you mean John Edwards?  He is the one in the news about having an affair! ! !

Answer 5

Ok....I agree with this.  However a persons sexual and personal life really don't have much to do with running the country.  Knowledge, experience and superior intelligence are key here.  

Additionally, these campaigns are run by design.  They are made not from the candidate, they are by design created by media/public relations departments and agencies.  McCain, may very well have low morals, this I do not know.  I don't know really which candidate has the better morals...because I do not know them.  I like Obama, I also like McCain....would choose Obama over McCain if he had more experience in world leadership - it is for this reason and this reason only that I am voting for McCain.  Our economy is in a state of serious decline, I consider it the start of a new and devastating depression.  If you look at the numbers, the statistics and worldwide leadership support of the US....we are in serious danger of tipping into a downward spiral that will break records.  This is a crucial time.  This is not a time to worry about who did what to which wife...it is a time to consider who has the pull, the contacts and the knowledge to lead us away from what could and will happen to our nation if something doesn't change.  Listen to the other parts of their campaigns, check the facts, make a list and learn from it.  It will help you make an intelligent and informed decision.  Good luck.

Answer 6

Why does he need to speak up about it at all? He's divorced. Like what he says matters. He's also a politician and shallow. Egostitical. Please. I don't want to hear any cheating politician speak about the sanctity of marriage. If he believed that then he would be married still to his first wife. Get real. Who is he fooling?  

Answer 7

I have read about that...

Politics are ALL liars...

And I don't venture there!

Answer 8

who the ***** is Mcain.... who cares.... go Obama

Answer 9

lord have mercy, for one he didn't leave her for years after her illness, and two the separation and divorce was mutual... however, people make mistakes and get divorced... that doesn't mean they don't hold respect for the sanctity of marriage... and let me tell you something... Obama and his family are not as perfect as the media and himself portrays them... I am sure they too have some (albeit well hidden) skeletons in their closet as well..

ADD: as far as I am aware (like it really matters anyway) he was "cheating" while him and his (at the time) wife were seperated.... that is what one signature away from divorce?

ADD2: besides what difference does it make what he did 20 some odd years ago? is he doing it now? no, i didn't think so... don't you think in 20 some odd years that a person may have developed a respect for something that they might not have had before? Just because he didn't have respect enough at one point in his life doesn't mean he hasn't grown up, matured, learned from a lesson and went with it... the distant past means nothing anymore... so when deciding and picking on things for our candidates can we please stick to things that happened in this century instead of picking and judging things that happened a long LONG time ago?

Answer 10

He's a politician....which in essence is, by definition, a hypocrite.  

Answer 11

Apparently you live in a glass house. (Be careful of the people that are about to throw a stone at you) The two main candidates wanting to be our next president are people just like you and me. They have their faults, just like you and me. You can dig into anybody's closet and find all sorts of bad information about someone's past. We need to look into the future, not into the past and see what's best for America. Who do we need running this country? I don't care who you're voting for, just go out and vote. That's the best thing to do. The Bible says it best. "He who is without sin, cast the first stone".  

Answer 12

He like John Edwards used the wrong head to guide them. You must understand politicians are some of the most hypocritical people known to human kind.

I don't care about who they are banging as much as how they would act as president. McCain seems to be a hot head and not understand domestic issues. That's my worry.

Obama is showing his side of stupidity talking about taxing those making $250,000 a year. That's a good number of upper middle class people some of which are teetering on bankruptcy too!

Answer 13

I'm going to vote for Obama but not because he seems to have a good marriage.

A lot of politicians talk out of both sides of their mouths like we're learning about John Edwards.....but you're right McCain should tone down the respecting your marriage bit.

Which marriage is he talking about?

Answer 14

Obama would do the same thing if he was confronted with the same ****.  Most men do.  He is a politician.  They lie.  They want your vote.  They would sell their mother if it meant a vote.

Answer 15

well that is the world today few people have the marriage that is not full of cheating and lies.... obama is one that we can all look up to and try to be like him if we get married.

Answer 16

Dont you think that perhaps McCain's inprisonment at the hands of the Viet-Cong changed him as much as Carol's car accident?  I think both got pretty broken apart during the years of the Vietnam war.  

The Hanoi Hilton makes Gitmo look like Club Med. Real physical torture (beatings, maimings, etc.)  took place there.

They both were victims and their marriage was victim too.

Answer 17

I wouldn't canonize either candidate because of a successful marriage.  McCain apparently went through a lot of h**l in his years of service, and it's not his fault he unfortunately fell into the statistic as one of those soldiers who served in Vietnam to divorce their spouses.  Can you blame McCain for having a very difficult time adjusting back to his old life, after all he's been through?  Do you think you could come back to America, retaining your sanity after being tortured daily as a POW?  Do you think after going through the things McCain went through, you'd be back on your feet 100%, cleaning your house with little or no emotional damage?  I doubt it.

I'm sure he does care for the sanctity of marriage; his previous marriage obviously does not reflect that, but those circumstances are not his fault.  It's great that Barack has a good relationship with his family, but it's wrong to put down McCain, and they obviously both have different life experiences that nobody should compare and contrast.  Unfortunately, however, the media is encouraging this.