Weiner admits sending photos. Will he be forced to resign?

Jokes aside, I would hope that Weiner, now that he is entering fatherhood, can get the help he needs. This man needs some sanity in his life and a resignation, away from the limelight and political figures that figuratively "see blood". This may be the medicine he needs. Perhaps time with his child will help him go to a new direction. I know of a relative who seeks to re-enter public office as an elected official. For his own sake, he needed time away from the political limelight. It was destroying his family and his mind. Now he is coming back with a sense of humbleness and wisdom. Weiner can return to public office, if the voters so decide.

 

You know, I thought he looked an inch or so taller.

 

The impeached Clinton should have been convicted, then removed from office EXCEPT the U.S. Senate didn’t have the guts to convict (via supermajority) him during his impeachment trial (e.g., lying to a federal grand jury; any of us would have gone to jail). At least Nixon resigned before the House considered the impeachment resolutions. Not Clinton; another zero honorable individual.

 

On a much more serious note:

This guy (Weiner) has been compromised and DEFINETY needs to go! And what’s equally disturbing as regards his lack of judgment, shame and/or and character … he refuses to voluntarily leave. And his ONLY self-serving regret is that he has been publically exposed (no pun intended).

 

Nixon's resignation had nothing to do with honor. He resigned because he didn't have enough votes in the Senate for an acquittal.

 

Says who? Nixon resigned prior to articles of impeachment (charges) proceeding (e.g., U.S. Constitution, Article II (Executive Branch), and Section 4 (Disqualification)) even taking place in the House of Representatives (sole power of impeachment; determine which articles of impeachment, if any, will be used against the official); thus in Nixon’s case, e.g., via resignation, no articles of impeachment (House) … no Senate (power to try impeachments) trial.

BTW, I never mentioned [honor] as regards Nixon. Nonetheless, in that he (Nixon) was culpable, he did avoid taking the Country through this process – unlike Clinton, who certainly knew he was, at minimum, guilty of perjury, but allowed the impeachment process charges (perjury and obstruction of justice) nevertheless. And Clinton likely knowing that the U.S. Senate (55 Republican /45 Democrat) couldn’t muster a two-thirds majority of 67 senators required for conviction (e.g., acquittal) chose selfishly to not resign, all the time fully knowledgeable of the legitimacy of the article/s of impeachment.

Note re Clinton: Only the second impeachment of a President in American history. Moreover, a subsequent perjury charge and a charge of abuse of power, failed in the House.

 

True, but the more complete story is European germs and native infighting, in general, helped to make it relatively easy for the Europeans. Specifically, that is the exact case for the pilgrams and those Indians living in the area that the pilgrams landed. The book Guns, Germs, and Steel is a most wonderful documentation of this situation.

 

Thanks for the reference. I'll put Guns, Germs, and Steel on my amazon.com wish list.

 

If you haven't read it yet, I'd suggest the Life and Times of Andrew Jackson by H.W. Brand as well. I have been struggling to finish a biography of Franklin for over a year but I read Life and Times in a week. Very well written and I think it gives us a real inside look into the most infamous "indian fighter" of all time. One thing I will say about the slaughter of so many native Americans, it wasn't always unprovoked. Today's Al Qaeda was yesterday's Red Sticks. As for genocide, "we" (non-native Americans) tend to homogenize the term "native American as though it represents a single people when in fact the opposite is true. Many tribes were doing their dead level best to wipe each other from the face of the earth prior to a white man setting foot on what is today North America. Genocide was going on long before "Wrong Way" Columbus arrived.

 

So now it is 6 years later and Anthony Weiner is going to prison

Anthony Weiner gets 21 months in prison in sexting case - CNNPolitics

 

I wonder if Trump loyalists will start defending this guy now, or make him a "victim" of another "Clinton conspiracy".