Dann Death Watch
OK, we are in day seven of the Marc Dann Death Watch!
How much longer before the disgraced and unfit Ohio Attorney General succumbs to political and public pressure and resigns his office?
It will be a week ago Friday that Dann was blasted in an internal report of his office about sexual harassment, cronyism and general managerial ineptness. He followed that with admissions of an affair with a subordinate and acknowledgement that he never expected to get the job and felt unprepared for it when elected.
His own party has disowned him, with pretty much every Democrat in the state from the governor on down has calling for him to quit or be impeached. They hate the taint of being associated with him.
The Republicans are yukking it up behind their own hypocritical “tsk, tsks.” Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted went so far as to say the legislature needs to seek advice on how to proceed on an impeachment – from the attorney general. Very funny.
Please Mr. Dann, just go.
posted by David Wells at 2:22 PM
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at 7:24 PM, May 08, 2008 
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at 7:49 AM, May 09, 2008 
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Post a Comment*Speaking of hypocrisy, what of Strickland and Sherrod Brown defending Bill Clinton and voting to keep him in office, but saying Marc Dann has to go? I've noticed you're very quick to call Republicans hypocrites, without saying why, but apparently no Democrat, not even Marc Dann, ever is called one.
and in related news:
generalissimo francisco franco is still dead.
Dear anon 7:24, you should read our editorial of last Saturday, linked from the last line in this post, in which we describe Marc Dann's hypocrisy as "breathtaking."
MR. Wells, this is 7:24 again. Did you write that editorial? If so, I stand corrected. If not, well...
This is just a question I have about many of the so called today’s leader’s in our nation.
It relates to a current program that has been presented about one of this country’s past leader’s.
In his diary he wrote this….
"The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. . . . How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?"
-- John Adams (Diary, 2 June 1778)
Reference: The Works of John Adams, C.F. Adams, ed., vol. 3 (171)
So many of today’s so called leaders (entertainment, business, government, and I am sorry to say, religious) have been found to ‘not understand’ the meaning of fidelity!
They have stood up in front of their respective families and friends and pledged fidelity to one another.
They have even stood up in front of their respective organizations, businesses, and local communities and pledged fidelity to them.
But, as has been documented in today’s headlines they don’t really follow their respective pledges very well.
There are many people who will, through very glib comments, try to justify their past acts of infidelity.
But, it all comes down to this!
They have problems with far more that fidelity.
Their integrity and willingness to keep any promise, let alone their promise of fidelity, are in question.
They will use all the words in the dictionary and a thesaurus to “justify or explain” their acts.
They will say they are sorry with the deepest looks of despair with only one thought, and that thought is to escape their current situation by any means and to carry on with “business as usual”.
So, as we continue on to the coming election I have these questions of those who are pledging to be our leader of tomorrow!!
What ghosts are currently hiding under in your respective closets?
And what “tales of woe” are we going to be asked to “understand”?
Hey, congratulations to you, David, and to all at the editorial board. I know it's a happy day for you when a Democrat's been caught having S-E-X.
The use of the phrase "Death Watch" is unfortunate, of course, but I guess you're all just a little giddy right now. Otherwise, you might agree with House Speaker Jon Husted, R-Kettering, who, according to today's Dayton Daily News, "believes an independent, external investigation is needed to gather all the facts..."
I remember how Coingate bored your little group, how you could barely spare a drop of ink or indignation or barely fit so much as a "tsk, tsk" in among the volumes and volumes and still more volumes of fearless editorializing on raging controversies such as Children should be healthy and Firefighters should not be selling illegal drugs.
If I may quote from previous Cincinnati Enquirer Editorial Board Words To Set Your Moral Compass By about a previous elected official:
"Unfortunately the first thing Blackwell will have to do if he is elected is to live down his campaign. He has attempted to falsely smear Strickland as a supporter of child sex. He has used surrogates to suggest that Strickland, married for 18 years, is gay. Such tactics are blots on Blackwell's character, and he owes the state of Ohio an apology..."
Whew! Thank heavens he wasn't having sex, eh? The title was Blackwell For Governor. I swear to God I still have that entire Forum section; I absolutely couldn't throw it away.
Anyway, so happy for you! Have a nice scandal!
Let's all sign the petition to have marc dann impeached if he won't resign on his own. he than need to be impeached.
http://impeachdannnow.com is the website.
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