Is Paterson what NY'ers bargained for?

[rug city]

Originally Posted by VA Yankee

His indiscretions by both he and his wife occured 10 years ago. Both have grown since then and moved forward. I find it a shame that they have to air their personal lives because the media will dig and dig till they find something.

Besides if personal indiscretions were a disqualifier for office their would be alot of vacancy's in public office as well as faith based organizations.

They occured within the past few years. I hate to say it, but this may snowball into something larger.

[VA Yankee]

The news clip I saw said 10 years but it's not as big a story for us.

[Carbro]

Let's think of the presidents -- names we are all familiar with -- who were not known to cheat on their spouses:

• Bush2
• Carter
• Reagan
• Ford
• Nixon
• Truman

A list of known cheaters:

• FDR
• Eisenhower
• JFK
• LBJ
• Bush 1
• Clinton

In my book, cheaters were, on the whole, better presidents. Not a strong enough correlation to prove that bad husbands are good presidents, but enough to prove that bad husbands are not necessarily bad presidents.