Sanford Compares Plight To King David

[sabra]

Source: CBS News/AP

S.C. Governor Gets Back To Work, Tells His Cabinet He's Sorry For Keeping Them In The Dark Over Affair

(AP) South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is telling his state agency chiefs that he's sorry for keeping them in the dark when he went to see Argentina to see his mistress.

The Republican on Friday held his typical public meeting with the agency chiefs, but started with apologies and likening his confession and future to the biblical plight of King David.

Meanwhile, the man who would replace South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford if he resigned over his affair with a woman in Argentina said Friday he wasn't calling for the governor's resignation, and would try to help him through the next year and a half.

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, a fellow Republican, told The Associated Press that he spoke to Sanford on Thursday and "could tell he had done a lot of soul searching." The two, who have not been allies and don't run on the same ticket, didn't discuss the possibility of the governor stepping down.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/26/politics/main...

[no_hypocrisy]

1. King David? Does he mean the part with Bathsheba bathing and King

David "falling in love" with her and the fall-out from that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathsheba

The story of David's seduction of Bathsheba, told in 2 Samuel 11, is omitted in Chronicles. The story is told that David, while walking on the roof of his house, saw Bathsheba, who was then the wife of Uriah, taking a bath. He immediately desired her and later made her pregnant.

In an effort to conceal his sin, David summoned Uriah from the army (with whom he was on campaign) in the hope that Uriah would reconsummate his marriage and think the child his. Uriah was unwilling to violate the ancient kingdom rule applying to warriors in active service.<1> Rather than go home to his own bed, he preferred to remain with the palace troops.

After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to fertilize Bathsheba, the king gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be abandoned during a heated battle and left to the hands of the enemy. Ironically, David had Uriah himself carry the message that ordered his death. After Uriah was dead, David made the now widowed Bathsheba his wife.


Good biblical allusion Mike. Keep trying.

[pscot]

24. She tied him to a kitchen chair

She broke his throne and she cut his hair
And from his lips she drew a hallelujah

Leonard Cohen

[subcomhd]

30. That was Samson, I believe

I do love LC.

[DebbieCDC]

81. I love that song

[No Elephants]

41. Thanks, I never realized that David and Bathsheba became husband and wife (whatever

that may have meant in OT days).

[Joe Bacon]

55. Just the thought of Marky Mark with 100 right wing concubines...

[Occulus]

66. I stubbed my toe this morning

Now I know how hobbled gold miners in South Africa feel

[KakistocracyHater]

78. force him out of office

don't let another one get away, too dangerous a precedent done too many times already. Spitzer should have repeated what Republicans have said when caught & should NEVER have stepped down.

[imdjh]

2. The rule: Don't get caught with a dead woman or a live man.

[No Elephants]

42. Getting caught with a dead man is not a problem?

[Bandit]

64. For ol' "Morning Joe" a dead woman is no problem either.

Republicans...the truth is just not in them.

[checks-n-balances]

58. I thought the saying was "a live woman or a dead boy" n/t

[TrogL]

83. I thought it was "live boy"

Maybe I'll watch Le Cage au Folles tonight.

[Buzz Clik]

3. In a related story: King David finds similarity between Sanford and Goliath.

Both men clearly had been struck in the head by a projectile that rendered them senseless.

[No Elephants]

43. What projectile hit Sanford in the head? BTW, Goliath was rendered dead, not senseless.

[dgibby]

51. Sanford's brain dead. Same-same. n/t

[depakid]

4. Few things in this world are more pathetic than a fundy caught in a sex scandal

[dgibby]

8. Or more entertaining. Delicious! n/t

[JerseygirlCT]

5. Oh brother

My diagnosis of extreme narcissism holds even more water now.

This man is so totally focused on himself, his needs, his love, his career - and not at all for the people of his state, for his wife, for his kids. Not to mention for honesty.

[CreekDog]

6. Wait, did he kill Maria's husband???

[AlbertCat]

16. No, but perhaps her husband played the role of Saul...

....and demanded Sandford bring him 1000 foreskins of the Philistines!

That of course would mean Sandford would also have to fall in love with one of his mistress' boys....



Bible stories make a perilous analogy!

[subcomhd]

35. That might actually knock MJ out of the news

And the GOP is full of Philistines.

[No Elephants]

44. David married Bathsheba AND fell in love with her son? I must have dozed off at some point.

[subcomhd]

36. The analogy

would imply he plans to marry her.

[No Elephants]

45. I don't know that were actual marriage ceremonies in the time of David. Anyone know? Anyone?

[subcomhd]

68. I found this,

RITUAL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT APOCRYPHA
DRAFT FOR DISCUSSION

James R. Davila
St. Mary's College
University of St. Andrews

Weddings are mentioned in Baruch, 1 Maccabees, Ben Sira, and Tobit. Tobit actually describes a wedding ceremony in some detail: the father gives the bride to the groom and blesses them, the men sign a written contract, there is a meal, then the family escort the groom to the bride's bridal chamber. Tobit also mentions a fourteen-day wedding feast and a subsequent seven-day celebration by family in another city. We are told in 1 Maccabees that royal weddings were celebrated with great pomp and that a Nabatean wedding included a procession and music.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/otp/abstracts/r...

[No Elephants]

70. While still married to all his other wives, as David was? Again, I'd love to know

what being married or having a wife truly meant in David's day. It seems to me just living with someone whom you acknowledge is a wife. Could be your only wife, could be one among many, as Bathsheba was.

[LaurenG]

7. Oh please...delusions of grandiosity

he sticks his pecker in a woman not his wife and he suddenly thinks he's King David?

Republicans have something going on in their brain that makes them think they are more relevant than they are.

[dgibby]

11. And the e-mails came right out of the Song of Solomon, no doubt !

Next thing, he'll be proclaiming he's the 2nd coming of Jesus H. Christ. Of course, his confusion might be understandable after his wife finishes crucifying him.

[sutz12]

80. Jesus Hussein Christ?

I always wondered what the "H" stood for.

[Moondog]

17. Maybe the sex was so good that he thought he saw God ....

The man is a loon.

[auburngrad82]

79. He must have gonads as big as his ego

It really takes a set to compare yourself to a Biblical character after getting caught with your pants down.

He must think to sin is human, to get caught is divine...

[Happyhippychick]

9. God complex much?

[Xipe Totec]

10. He's King of the Jews now?

Alert the fundies...

[No Elephants]

46. Being King of the Jews doesn't always work out that well, unless you really are immortal.

[Javaman]

12. Ego much?

and the flailing continues.

[Milspec]

13. Jesus Fing Christ

I hope he doesn't resign, let this pus oozing POS say in the news cycle for a long, long time.
David indeed.

[flakey_foont]

14. he went to Argentina because....

the Phillistines were after him????

[jmondine]

15. Does this mean Richard Gere will play him in the movie?

[AlbertCat]

19. Does this mean Richard Gere will play him in the movie?

Well, it's almost as funny as that movie!! What a laugh riot that was!

[krabigirl]

wut? Sorry, but I can't think of anything else to say. This guy is so narcissitic.

He needs medication to treat this disorder. I would say it's sad, but since he's such a lying, hypocritical, Talibornagain, I won't. The guy is crazy.

[Dappleganger]

18. Just more proof that he's a lying repuke...

what a tool

[SCantiGOP]

20. the outcome

My office is in downtown Columbia, and without giving away too much my company is pretty close to the politics of state government. The people in my office are about 60-40 that he will resign. What complicates the matter is, as referenced above, the Lt Gov, who is running in 2010, would replace him, gaining a huge advantage. The person who should take him down if, as everyone expects, some public money was spent on his adventures, is the Attorney General, who is also running.
The Democrats look like they have a very attractive candidate this time; his uncle was a long time Speaker of the House before the GOP took over. The best scenario would probably be to have Sanford hanging around at election time, but the Lt Gov has exhibited some very reckless behavior and barely won re-election. One event was he was clocked at over 100 miles an hour, and when he stopped he acted so aggressively the cop pulled his gun on him before realizing who he was.

[No Elephants]

47. In other words, SC put two nut cases in its top two offices?

[dgibby]

52. Yea, but that was before Andre had his "come to Jesus"

meeting when he crash his plane! Since then, he's kinda been "flying" under the radar, so to speak, but I still don't want him running the state.

We sure do know how to pick them, don't we? Thurmond, Hollings, Ravenel, Sanford, Graham, and DeMint. The hall of shame is endless. Even Bernake is from SC, although we didn't elect him.

Nice to know we have Dems in Columbia. "Are-Grits-Groceries" is holding down the PeeDee and I'm doing "missionary work" here in the Low Country. Now, with you in Columbia, maybe we can make some blue inroads in this sea of red. Gawd knows we can't do any worse than what we have.

[tledford]

21. So that makes the Argentine lady Bathsheba?

At least he isn't comparing himself to Jesus or God, not yet, anyway.

[regnaD kciN]

22. So, does that mean...

...that one of his sons is going to rise up and overthrow him, then have sex with his Argentinian mistress (and any other women the governor may have had on the side) in public?

[BR_Parkway]

23. The David who loved Jonathan more than life itself after cavorting naked

together?

Is he trying to take the quick confession of a "mistress" to keep anyone from learning that it was actually a "mister"? Or maybe he just got all caught up in "protecting traditional marriage" - back when David could have hundreds of wives - just think how many the good King would have been able to have with today's modern day air travel network!~

[subcomhd]

32. She wasn't his beard, but you are onto something

He knocked her up and was worried about the husband finding out, so not something closeted gay men do a lot - I don't guess. But the Jonathan thing does point to bisexuality.

[Turbineguy]

25. That ups the ante a bit.

The next repub sex maniac will have to compare himself to Jesus Christ.

[checks-n-balances]

60. Great reply!

Yeah - where else could the next one go but there!

[rateyes]

26. IMO, Bathsheba was raped. nt

[damntexdem]

27. Well, then, don't let him loose on the AT with a slingshot.

Goliath should be allowed to hike the trail in peace.

[HillWilliam]

28. #GOPFail

Has he been taking lessons from Hoekstra?

[Blue For You]

29. He flew to Argentina on Ezekiel's wheel too!

[City Lights]

31. Oh brother.

And the Oscar goes to...

[pleah]

33. So, he cheated on his wife because he thinks he is King David?

Holy fucking shit, Batman!

[northernlights]

34. another Hoekstra!?!

that makes it, what, 3 in the past 3 weeks or so?!?

[sarcasmo]

37. I am kicking every Sanford story to the top, we can't let this die.

[ShortnFiery]

38. What a shameless, self-absorbed MORON!

Kick his smarmy ass out of office?!?

[Unvanguard]

39. I wonder if he remembers how King David was punished.

I don't think I would make that comparison if I were a believer.

[jasi2006]

50. I don't think he read the "rest of the story"

I sure would not want to be like King David...most of the bad stuff happpened to his friend and family.

[dgibby]

53. Reading is one thing. Understanding, a whole different reality. n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

40. King David, who sent his lover's husband into the front lines of battle

so he'd get killed and then took his lover as an official royal concubine?

Uhhh, OK.

[No Elephants]

48. Allow me to translate. I speak Neo Theo. Next to Jesus, David is the Biblical

figure most favored by God. (Jews might say Abraham was, but Christians would say David, at least among OT figures.) Jesus is supposedly a direct descendant of David. (See Luke 2.)

What Sanford is saying is that even the ruler most favored by God cheated (and worse) and it did not mess up either his worldly career or his relationship with God. So, religously speaking, there's no earthly or heavenly reason for me to resign.

[jhain]

49. He just wants to begat and begat some more

and he is setting such a good example for the boys he already has begat, right?

[No Elephants]

57. Is his mistress pregnant? If not, what makes you think he is bent (so to speak) on begetting? I

think he is like many married public people who carry on affairs. He wants it every which way (no pun intended).Keep the wife, the mistress, the love, respect and loyalty of his offspring, the love of the electorate, the perks of his public office, etc.

[jhain]

59. And why not?

If the Supreme Court could anoint W then all things are possible if you quote the good book.

[No Elephants]

65. Sadly, it never works that way for me. Sigh.

[dgibby]

54. Bingo!

"Neo-Theo". I am soooo stealing that!

[No Elephants]

56. PLEASE do. I stole it from a liberal Christian. To me, it embodies what Democrats should

fight against--theocracy (and bigotry), not what someone's personal beliefs are, if those beliefs stay personal and harm no one.

[dgibby]

62. Thank you! I love it! n/t

[checks-n-balances]

61. This is the 2nd stupidest thing he has said yet

The 1st was the one that had him "crying in Argentina".

Stay tuned for his next gaffe!

[struggle4progress]

63. Translation: "Maybe tossing a Biblical allusion will help me out of this mess!"

[PassingFair]

67. The religious language of this couple is BLOWING MY MIND.

I don't live in South Carolina...are
ALL your politicians this holier than thou?

[Cherchez la Femme]

69. That trumps "Thou shalt not commit adultery"?

Huh. How 'bout that?

[No Elephants]

71. According to the book of Samuel, God killed one of David's sons in retaliation for

David's adultery and murder.

Psst, Sanford, ixnay on the avidDay stuff.

[Infomaniac]

72. He's using the Bible to justify his cheatin' ways, huh?

[SOS]

73. Sanford also quoted the passage on love from Corinthians to his mistress

It's an entertaining part of his love notes.
He uses Bible quotes on his mistress and in his apology for going to Argentina to have sex with her.

He is deranged.

He probably won't be quoting Leviticus 20:10 anytime soon:

"And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death."

[PassingFair]

74. Well, technically, SHE is single.

Guess it's only death when a married WOMAN is involved.

Property rights, dontcha know....

[GeorgeGist]

75. Since King David was obviously a fool ...

the analogy fits.

[GeorgeGist]

76. If I was Maria's husband, I'd be afraid of becoming ...

Sanford's Uriah.

[troubledamerican]

77. "But CLINTON"

Right-wing's favorite two words (besides "Nine Eleven")...

You never heard them mention King David in association with a president who had much more in common with that story of David.

Wonder why.

[Zhade]

82. Referencing fairy tales won't save you, fool.

NT!