Long before Barack Obama, three of the Democratic Party’s most popular icons were Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton. Each was an adulterer. Kennedy and Clinton were notorious for it. John’s brother Ted was also guilty of rampant womanizing, a hallmark of the entire Kennedy clan, and yet was recently honored on the Senate floor for his lifelong … [Read More]

Pardon me for not being able to figure this one out, but the furor over Mark Sanford, who has apparently ruined his political future by pursuing his lover to Argentina, has left me uneasy. Although Sanford certainly blundered, his mistake had less to do with his erotic energy than with his handling of the affair in a televised news conference. The … [Read More]