As William Hazlitt said: The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocricy.

That’s why I think so many have such a visceral, disgusted reaction to these “family men” who get caught with their pants down. These people are hypocrites. I much prefer someone like Teddy Kennedy, warts and all, in comparison to his brother, JFK. Teddy never pretended to be anything more than what he is. Jack Kennedy, on the other hand, was playing tonsil hockey with Marilyn Monroe at the same time he was letting Life Magazine print pictures of him and his “perfect” family.

Hypocrites are not only morally blind,they are blind to the world around them. They don’t see how ridiculous they look to the rest of us. Sarah Palin touts her “real Americanism,” but she has a teenage daughter who gave birth on the wrong side of the blanket. That’s none of my business. But I find the irony delicious.

Can you even IMAGINE what Sarah and Co. would say if the situation were flipped, and President Obama had a 17-year-old, unmarried, pregnant kid? OMG. They’d ride him out of town on a rail. I can hear Limbaugh: “Do we want this man–and his promiscuous offspring–serving as an example to our young, impressionable children? No. This man is a menace. We have to get rid of him by any means necessary!”

And to continue the irony: Those who show up at these staged “Town Hall” meetings and call Obama a Nazi see themselves as the last of the “real Americans.” Most of them are the type who go to family reunions to pick up girls.

But it is OBAMA who lives the American ideal that these folks tout so loudly. It is OBAMA who has the great wife, the beautiful kids. It is OBAMA who lives the life of a “real American,” not them.

Deep down inside, I think these crazies get that–thus their hatred of him.

They talk the talk. Obama walks the walk.

Unfortunately, folks of the religious persuasion have a creepy criteria for who should hold public office and tend to ascribe their faith onto candidates.

Lyndon B. Johnson had been caught at least 1 time using the word Nigger and he ushered in sweeping civil rights legislation, even threatening to break a fellow southerners arm or leg to get the votes to pass.

And yet George Bush, arguably a devoted man in marriage to Laura, was an incredible disaster as President.

America’s moral compass has lost its bearing when it tries to use religion as its guiding principal for upright behaviour (even though those casting the stones have secretly been guilty of the same discretion)