What was he thinking? We all make mistakes in life. Hopefully, what ever our mistake is, is not some thing that is felony bad and would cause us to have to go to prison.
When I was a kid, walking home from school, I cultivated this bad child like habit of picking up small rocks and chucking them. Not necessarily at any thing in particular and definitely not with the intention of damaging any thing. It was just some thing to do. Well, I picked up this rock and under hand threw it up into the air and it hit a street light, causing the light to come crashing down to the street below. To my dismay, there was a police officer sitting in his car about 100 feet away, doing paper work and he heard the crash of the breaking glass. The police officer took down my info, got in touch with my parents and my father ended up having to pay for the light I had broken. I thought my life was over! I must have been 12 years old and I will never forget that incident.
When I was 17, driving on a learner permit and had a girl friend who was a week or so short of 16 years of age, we were sitting in my car, in a park, listening to music. One thing led to another and as kids who hang out in a car typically do, her and I were messing around, kissing and such.
I specifically parked my car so that we could see if any other cars were entering the part of the park we were parked at. This would give us time to quickly put our clothes back on. Her panties and shorts were down at her ankles. A few hundred yards away at the entrance of the park, we see a police car driving into the park. My girl friend quickly tries to pull her shorts up, but her panties roll up at her ankles and her shorts are stuck down there. Mean while, the police officer is now standing at my passenger door asking us what we are doing, as my GF is sitting there naked with her panties and shorts at her ankles.
I surely thought I was going to be arrested for statutory rape, cause I knew my GF was a week or so short of 16 and 16 was the legal age of consent. Fortunately for both her and I, the police officer separated us, questioned her and I and after a verification that we were dating for 6 months or so, it is not like I just picked her up and was having sex with a minor. We both feared for dear life that the cop would call her parents and reveal that we were fooling around in the park. He never did, but I surely feared for my life.
Anthony Weiner is not a teenager. He is a married man in his mid 40's. Sending pics of his penis and bare chest are things a kid might get away with, but not a congressman. No doubt, he messed up. What the hell was he thinking? He did the equivalent of you or I having a very realistic looking toy gun and pointing it at police officers faking like you might shoot them. Surely it would give the police a go ahead to shoot you or I. In the same manner, he may have ruined his political future via the penis pics sent to women via on line social net working. (maybe he thought he was totally anonymous???)
I am quite liberal minded. Park of me thinks, so what he sent his dick and chest pics to women. I might do it and you might do it, but we are not public figures whose careers would be on the line via doing such a thing.
I would take a wild guess that Mr Weiner missed the freedom he had when he was single, and in a young and free single state of mind, he wanted to still play like he did in his late teens and twenties. No different than a married man or woman wanting to go out on a night on the town with their friends, at a bar and drink it up like they did when they were single and free.
Problem for Anthony Weiner is he is a married public figure and he should have known that he gave up that freedom years ago. What was he thinking? I threw the rock up at the light causing it to crash to the pavement. I was 12 years old though. Anthony needed to do the on line social networking thing when he was young, single and not in public office.
We all make mistakes in life. I am certain that Phil Spector is VERY sorry for playing around and putting a loaded gun in the mouth of Lana Clarkson and pulling the trigger. That was a big time mistake, a felony and a life in prison kinda thing.
Bill Clinton got blow jobs from Monica Lewinski and he survived that whole scandal. In reality, what Bill Clinton did was much worse than what Weiner did. Bill had real sex with a real woman. Weiner simply sent pics of his weiner on line.
Do a Google search of Bill Kamal, the former channel 7 weather man for WSVN in Miami. He got 5 years in prison for PM'ing back and forth with what he thought was a 15 year old boy and ended up being a police officer.
Often times life is not fair. When we mess up, we hope it is not some thing terribly bad. When ya bare back that hot babe who lets you bang her with out a condom, you enjoy the moment and pray like hell she doesn't give you any thing that you'll remember her for a life time via.
Only time will tell if Weiner resigns as a congressman, either via force or on his own.
Every one agrees it was a poor decision on Weiner's part. For his sake, let's hope he gets past this ordeal.