People's marriages are their business, not mine. I have dealings with people everyday and I don't know whether they cheat on their spouses or not. I spend more time working on my own relationship than worrying about someone else's.

So if a spouse cheats, everyone should head for divorce immediately? If I remember correctly, the marriage vows read "for better or worse". The only people who can destroy a marriage are either (or both) of the people in it.

My point is that people are far from perfect, and some make serious mistakes. But one bad act (where no one dies) does not condemn someone to forever being a "shitty human being". You're being very Old Testament here.

LeAnn was responsible for her relationship with her own husband, not for Eddie's relationship with Brandi. Eddie was responsible for that. Whatever you think of her scruples, the only person who wrecked Eddie's home with Brando was Eddie.

I know.

Very well: LeAnn wrecked her own home. But she didn't wreck Eddie's: that was Eddie's doing.

The term "home wrecker" should be retired for the outside person sleeping with a married person: no outside person makes a spouse cheat. If a spouse is committed, he/she cannot be "stolen"...

I agree with you that we should practice what we preach...perhaps we should use summits like these to highlight human rights abuses at home as well...

What independent would vote for a candidate who wants to take away a woman's right over her own body?

I'm not saying that she's responsible for Bill's actions...I'm saying that knowing what a job is and exposure to what a job entails are not the same as experience: this kind of résumé building is what monarchies are about, and I thought we fought a revolutionary war to get away from a monarchy.

First of all, Bill had long courted the African-American vote, and was celebrated for choosing AA women for these posts. Then he left them high and dry.

Demographics would kill Ryan: most Latinos (except for Cubans) will flock to the Democratic candidate (lesser of two evils), and more than 90% of African-Americans vote Democrat in any given election - which means that HRC has 25% of the electorate sewn up immediately. The only hope for Republicans is vote…

Did I say that they were deep down racists? Nope. I implied that their treatment of Guinier and Elders was vile and smacked of the disposability of black women - something that some HRC supporters conveniently overlook when decrying sexism against HRC.

I see that you're pious and self-righteous...and she's doing more good for this cause than you and I are sitting at our keyboards.

Yep...but there is a dismissiveness among some of HRC supporters of her campaign's racism. Thus, the OP's choice of "lesser of two evils" between McCain and Obama makes it sound as though HRC was saintly.

Oh, dear. There was also palpable racism in the Clinton campaign. Rethink how the Clintons did Lani Guinier and Dr. Jocelyn Elders, and get back to me..

Love it. Love it. Love it.

I'd star you more if I could...

So true. One of my fave singers...and she write all her own stuff to boot.

But Reba's version can't touch the original, written and performed by Miss Bobbie Gentry...