He could be respectably married, or running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires
The 2,000-plus miles of the Appalachian Trail might be considered a brisk stroll in comparison to the long verbal road South Carolina governor Mark Sanford took in today’s press conference, before finally admitting that his mysterious 7-day disappearance from the state was related to an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina.
He didn’t have much choice. Once he was surprised by a local reporter at the Atlanta airport (where he’d hoped to evade notice), there was no way to keep the media from dissecting clues about where he’d been, and no plausible cover story he could tell to end the speculation (especially since the real story was already leaking out).
It’s amusing, though, that Sanford implied in the press conference that he was down in Buenos Aires putting an end to the affair. Seven days seems like an awfully long time to spend breaking up, y’know?
Stumble it!
Tags: affair, Argentina, Sanford, South Carolina
June 25th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
He apologized to all those who were worried. What about the rest of us who weren’t worried because we knew something was fishy?
June 25th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Now dosz he see what good education would had taught him and he would not have had to wait until 40 before he discovered what good sex is. Fucking corn fed ignorant.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:59 am
I wish this and a zillion other topics would not burble into our 24-hr. “news” cycle; and I wish for a few other things, such as real investigative reporting in critical areas that affect all of us.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Breaking up is hard to do . . .