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Does cheating scandals with candidates make you trust them less?

We've all heard about politicians cheating on their wives. (To name a few: McCain, Edwards, etc.) A lot of ppl have said thats between him and his wife but I totally disagree. As a wife, the most trusted person in your life should be your husband (theoretically). So if these candidates couldn't be trusted by their own life partners, why should I trust them? How do I know they won't screw up the country or follow their own interests?

Update:

Ok so McCain married a month after his divorce. That looks like foul play to me. And he married someone stinking rich? It looks like he was looking in the interest of himself.

Update 2:

I am not running for President. Most of our jobs aren't nearly as important as being president. And I'd want to make sure our president can be trusted.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I have less faith in a cheating candidate because cheating is caused by a lack of self control. I do not want some one running my country that cannot control him/herself.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think it depends on the party of the politician. OK for McCain, not OK for Clinton. I love the relationship that i have seen of Barack and Michelle Obama. It's real, not staged. I want real for once to represent this country. Wouldn't it be nice to have someone that we can relate to, someone who speaks their mind, someone who touches or winks at their partner, and someone who understands that peace and unity in the entire world are what's going to help America?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    How many husbands don't cheat? I know of very few and even my father, grandfather and brothers and all my immediate cousins and most of my neighbors and friends

    even I have indulged..why would a man not cheat if he could get away with it? most men do..whether you want to believe this or not..

    F.D. Roosevelt had his g/f while his wife was out doing his job

    Eisenhower..cheated with a English WAF

    Kennedy? of course Marilyn Monroe and others

    both Kennedy's...

    Martin Luther King had affairs right on his watch..he was also addicted to sex

    Carter Admitted to lusting in his heart..Playboy interview

    Clinton? Monica Lewinsky and many others..sex addict

    Bush? who knows...maybe not Sr..but Jr.."?""

    Barack Obama had liaisons with male prostitutes

  • 1 decade ago

    McCain and his wife had already been separated twice before he met Cindy (look it up). And they divorced a month after he met Cindy. I would rather a man be honest and divorce his wife rather than stay married and continue to cheat (ie. Bill, JFK, FDR).

    And it says something about his character that his ex-wife still goes by the last name McCain and supports his campaign. Maybe he isn't that evil after all....

    Source(s): McCain 08
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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    not at all.

    if u cheated on ur spouse woud u expect to get fired from ur job?

    personal mistakes dont make a person less capabe of doing their job and politics is a job to these people.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, but there are other factors involved in trust, and I surely trust McCain more than Obama.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    All that is crap for religious people to worry about. They're all cheating on their wives too, but they need to sit in judgement of everybody else.

    GoBama! Let's Clean Up Li'l Bush's Mess!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't think Cindy trusts McCain. She made him sign a pre-nup. You might also look up the Keating Five. John McCain is not someone you can trust.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I have less trust in someone who takes his kids to a racist church like Obama did.

  • to cheat is a lack of self control, so while i think its between a candidate and their spouse

    it does show something

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