Sexy emails between Sanford & "Maria" in the State newspaper

[marylanddem]

Wow. This needs to be continually front & center - hilarious!

http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.html
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The woman who South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford had an affair with lives on Republica de la India in the Palermo neighborhood of Argentina.

Story: Sanford admits affair; wife Jenny responds


Sanford’s office Wednesday did not dispute the authenticity of the emails.

McClatchy special correspondent Angeles Mase visited the 14-story apartment building in Buenos Aires Wednesday where the woman lives, according to the emails, which included her address. The woman at the address answered to the name in the emails and, at first, agreed to speak to a visitor, but she declined after the visitor identified herself as a reporter.

The doorman at the building, shown a photograph of Sanford, said he did not recognize him. According to the doorman, the woman has two sons, one a teenager of driving age and the other younger. The emails refer to the woman’s two sons.

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From Gov. Sanford,
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 12:24 a.m.

“One, tomorrow leave at 5 a.m. for New York and meetings. Will think about you on its streets and wish I was going to be there later in the month when you are there. Tomorrow night back to Philadelphia for the start of the National Governor's Conference through the weekend. Back to Columbia for Tuesday and then on Wednesday, as I think I had told you, taking the family to China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Thailand and then back through Hong Kong on world wind tour. Few days home then to Bahamas for 5 days on a friend’s boat for the last break of the summer. The following weekend have been asked to spend it out in Aspen, Colorado with McCain - which has kicked up the whole VP talk all over again in the press back home ...

Two, mutual feelings .... You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light - but hey, that would be going into sexual details ...

Three and finally, while all the things above are all too true - at the same time we are in a hopelessly - or as you put it impossible - or how about combine and simply say hopelessly impossible situation of love. How in the world this lightening strike snuck up on us I am still not quite sure. As I have said to you before I certainly had a special feeling about you from the first time we met, but these feelings were contained and I genuinely enjoyed our special friendship and the comparing of all too many personal notes ...

Lastly I also suspect I feel a little vulnerable because this is ground I have never certainly never covered before - so if you have pearls of wisdom on how we figure all this out please let me know... In the meantime please sleep soundly knowing that despite the best efforts of my head my heart cries out for you, your voice, your body, the touch of your lips, the touch of your finger tips and an even deeper connection to your soul.”

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From Maria,
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 8:14 p.m.

“As I told you I shouldn't have done this trip but I would have felt worst if I wouldn't have come because it was too over the date, he is a very nice guy, great heart ... but unfortunately I am not in love with him ... You are my love ... something hard to believe even for myself as it's also a kind of impossible love, not only because of distance but situation. Sometimes you don't choose things, they just happen... I can't redirect my feelings and I am very happy with mine towards you.”

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From Gov. Sanford,
Tuesday, July 8, 1:42 a.m.

“Got back an hour ago to civilization and am now in Columbia after what was for me a glorious break from reality down at the farm. No phones ringing and tangible evidence of a day's labors. Though I have started every day by 6 this morning woke at 4:30, I guess since my body knew it was the last day, and I went out and ran the excavator with lights until the sun came up. To me, and I suspect no one else on earth, there is something wonderful about listening to country music playing in the cab, air conditioner running, the hum of a huge diesel engine in the back ground, the tranquillity that comes with being in a virtual wilderness of trees and marsh, the day breaking and vibrant pink coming alive in the morning clouds - and getting to build something with each scoop of dirt.”

http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.html

PHOTO OF THE SEX APARTMENT AT LINK!

[Ron Green]

1. a "world wind tour?" WTF?

[malaise]

37. Freeper spelling

How else can you move from the Appalachian train to Argentina.:D

[SoCalDem]

47. Even in high places, after being highly educated, they still don't get it, do the

world wind tour= listless wind blowing him around the world, bored as hell with his family..while he pines away for his girlfriend:)

whirl-wind= the banshee winds of hell that now envelope him :)..(yes freeps, "envelope" is also a verb)

[Indenturedebtor]

85. Enveloping someone sounds like a grate way to git a paper-cut!

Why wood anyone wanna do that?

[ceveritt]

96. verbs

Actually, Boss, the verb is spelled "envelop." No "e."

"World wind," however, is laughably stupid no matter how one looks at it.

[SoCalDem]

97. Aaaaack.. the dreaded errant "e"..

Color my face Rede:)

[ceveritt]

100. errant "e"

Excellent rejoinder.

[madeline_con]

57. You saw that, too? Illiterate dufus. n/t

[derby378]

2. The Governor is a breast man!

"the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself)..."

:rofl:

[jefferson_dem]

10. What man isn't?

I won't fault the scumbag for that.

[DavidDvorkin]

30. I'm not

I've known other men who weren't.

[jefferson_dem]

33. Good. More for me...

:evilgrin:

[DavidDvorkin]

82. Interesting unspoken assumptions in your post. :)

[Bicoastal]

45. Explain yourself.

You and these other guys--you may not be Breast men, but you don't MIND them, do ya?

[Vektor]

52. Sometimes they can be pendulous fat bags that sway sloppily about and get in the way.

An "udder catastrophe" if you will.

Neat, orderly ones are ok.

:rofl:

[DavidDvorkin]

81. I don't mind them

I consider small, firm ones attractive. However, they're not the body part(s) that affect me viscerally.

[anigbrowl]

95. up to a point, no

but past about a C cup, they become a turn-off. Don't ask me why, that's just how I'm wired.

[stopbush]

31. I see he also mentioned the good ol' "string of pearls."

Oops, that was pearls of wisdom.

Sorry.

[trueblue2007]

80. and then there was his statement about the affair being "That Sparking Thing"

This is a SOAP OPERA !!!!!!

[marmar]

3. There's something wonderful about country music in a cab....and the hum of a huge diesel engine?

That sounds like my idea of ...... HELL!!!! :scared:

[Ikonoklast]

9. Meh. Try it with Motorhead.

Dirt will fly.

[BolivarianHero]

14. Sounds more fun to my girlfriend than it does for me...

If she were not an atheist, we'd have nothing in common...lol

[Seen the light]

4. Now *this* is a little too much

I sincerely hope Sanford's boys never read these.

[Mojorabbit]

8. This should have remained private

for the family's sake. Nothing is served by making these emails public.

[derby378]

16. I sympathize, but he brought this upon himself

If someone hacked into his account, prosecute the hacker. Otherwise...

[Seen the light]

21. I don't see anything particularly newsworthy in these emails

I don't see any reason to publish them other than Entertainment Tonight tabloid reasons.

[derby378]

26. True enough

Can't argue with you there.

[redqueen]

32. Exactly. Even if it was sent via gov't email...

no reason to make the contents public.

Sad.

[malaise]

22. Fugging hell no

When you use the taxpayers email, it's all public. Of course the wife could have sent these to the newspaper which is even more fun.

[Seen the light]

24. Now that's a good point

Were these sent by government email though?

[malaise]

34. Don't know

I'm beginning to feel the wife is preparing for her divorce.

[noiretextatique]

54. it's not private if he sent them from state equipment

he shouldn't have been so arrogant as to use state property.

[tammywammy]

66. nevermind n/t

[Mojorabbit]

67. I am sure his wife and children could give a shit

where it was sent from. This will hurt them and they don't deserve it. It adds nothing to the discussion. There is heartache galore in this situation. I don't want to read a man's letters where he is pouring out his heart to a woman he loves either esp in his impossible situation. I don't want to read his wife's letters either where she probably pours out her heartache and hurt at the situation.
He just needs to retire and go away.

[noiretextatique]

70. he shouldn't have sent them

and certainly not with state property. emails written from work equipment are not private, and they don't belong to the sender. he should have thought about his wife and kids a little earlier.

[Mojorabbit]

71. I don't think it has been proven it was sent

from work. The interview on CNN , the reporter only says he received them in his inbox and did not know where they came from. If you have ever been in love, you know that sometimes you do not think so clearly. Now that the damage is done, the rest of the country doesn't need to be voyeurs to the intimate details of the shipwreck of his relationships. If he used state money, that is fair game but we don't need love letters.

[noiretextatique]

99. i have been in love...with a great woman

and since i am a woman, sanford would deny my right to marry her.
if he sent those emails from his office, they are the property of the state. yeah...what we do in the dark, whatever the excuse, often comes back to haunt us in the light.
i hope this hypocrite feels every iota of the shame he brought on himself and his family.

[Lorien]

74. Agreed. Just more grist for the media mill when it should be focused

on more important matters. Just another distraction and more GOP hypocrisy; nothing new here. Private letters should remain private, lmho.

[tammywammy]

63. Agreed. n/t

[Timefortruth]

5. "world" wind tour???

What a moron.

[BuyingThyme]

6. Holy smokes. This can only help his image.

[Bozita]

7. All of a sudden, I'm hearing the soundtrack from "West Side Story"

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. "world wind" tour?

I don't think he meant it as a pun. Wonder if the guy wanted to "out" this relationship. He could have handled the situation differently--told the Lt. Gov. he was going on vacation for a little R & R--and no one would have cared.

[roody]

55. If he wanted out, he would have stayed home with his family.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

79. Not necessarily

I've seen this happen before, has to do with self-destructive tendencies--punishing oneself for "sins."

[roody]

89. Oh, I forgot---break-up sex!

[flamingdem]

12. Aay, paaapi, tu maka me feeel so good when

sho talk abooout goberment.

Gobern me paaaapiii, ay yi yi!

sho maka me hot1

[Fleshdancer]

13. I feel bad for his wife

As if the story wasn't humiliating enough.

[malaise]

25. It's possible that the wife sent these to the media

She kicked him out two weeks ago and her comments gave this story teeth.

[trueblue2007]

77. JENNIE SHOULD DIVORCE HIM NOW !!!

[gatorboy]

91. I don't.

She managed his campaigns. Which means she helped make his career by supporting his negative view towards the gay community, ect.

[Fleshdancer]

98. I didn't realize she managed his campaigns

If they based their careers on denying rights to others, then I would like to take back my previous post. I'll just chalk this up to karma kicking them in the ass.

[EFerrari]

15. This violation of privacy is not admirable. n/t

[seabeyond]

27. i am with you.... n/t

[Baikonour]

17. .

:spray: :spray: :spray:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

18. Jeezus, I AM a bleeding heart liberal...

I read those emails and actually felt a bit sorry for the asshat. :(

[Bicoastal]

36. Well, unlike Spitzer, this clearly wasn't all about the sex...

...'cuz let met tell you, the only time a dude writes prose like that is when he's seriously head-over-heels. No man would make himself out to be that vulnerable to impress some out-of-town bimbo.

He really shot himself in the foot by both abandoning his state and using government funds and email for this purpose. If it weren't for that, a voter could almost forgive him even if his family couldn't.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

46. That was my take, too.

Having been in a desperately-in-love, no-win situation (not imvolving an affair) I can relate. :(

He is a stupid, stupid man -- and a damned hypocrite. May this teach him an important lesson about judging others lives/relationships.

[Spazito]

53. You forgot to mention him being a fucking hypocrite about his 'sanctity of marriage' shit

while giving his homophobic support for the ban on equal marriage. He is nothing but a hypocritical scumbucket, imo.

[malaise]

39. Meanwhile they're reading your email

No sympathy here. These morons support the violation of your privacy.

[kath]

43. Bingo!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

48. Hey, dude's still as asshat --

I just hope he's a little less judgemental coming out of this.

[noiretextatique]

56. there is no privacy on the job

and he shouldn't have used state property to conduct his affair.

[Dappleganger]

62. If it's the state's server...

he and everyone else should have NO expectation of privacy whatsoever.

[malaise]

19. So he used state email for this crap

Adultery by email. Wait for who footed the entire bill. :popcorn:
This is too good. These family values guys really love sex. They should join us leftists and just enjoy it with our partners or whoever we choose rather than this repressed hypocrisy.

I'm lovin' this shite. :rofl: :rofl:

[marylanddem]

23. I just re-read them - the self-importance of this dude -

all his travels, v.p. talk with McCain - really trying to sound like a hot shit & impress his girlfriend

[Seen the light]

29. I reread it and it just said it was a "personal" email account

Doesn't make it clear if it was an official government one or a private account like Palin's Yahoo one that was hacked.

[kath]

20. "the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself)" -

BWAH!!

[Duer 157099]

28. I'm guessing the wife leaked these n/t

[malaise]

35. Ding ding

That's my take. She's going to milk those SC adultery laws. Butter please. :popcorn:

[kath]

38. Hey, what's the penalty for adultery in SC?? "Rule of law, rule of law!!!"

[malaise]

41. It's on another thread n/t

[alterfurz]

61. Leviticus 20:10

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

[rvablue]

40. "Obtained by the State newspaper in December"????????

That, in and of itself, is the most interesting phrase of the entire article.

[girl gone mad]

58. Wonder what they were blackmailing him for? n/t

[RagAss]

42. Yup another GOP'er who got his Balls caught in the Karmic Wheel !

[Hepburn]

44. OMG....

...he cannot punctuate and he sounds like a 16 year old ego maniacal asshole.

:puke:

[Oregone]

49. Were these suppressed until now?

Was it because he was a VP pick?

[cherokeeprogressive]

60. I'm guessing no.

Palin was announced 8/29/08. These emails were apparently obtained in December. He was never a VP pick.

So I'm guessing no.

[Oregone]

75. I didn't realize they were obtained in December

If you read the emails, he mentions in one during the summer that he was being courted by McCain for VP. Strange they weren't released earlier

[cherokeeprogressive]

84. I thought the exact same thing. Who held onto them and why? n/t

[MagickMuffin]

50. Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December,

between Gov. Mark Sanford's personal e-mail account and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina.



Why didn't The State reveal this sooner, since they've had them for over 6 months?!?!?!? :shrug:

[LostInAnomie]

51. I do kind of feel bad for him after reading these.

Not because of the embarrassment, but because he obviously has feelings for this woman. Look at the way he speaks to her in these emails. It's not cold clinical language, it's not lecherous/pornographic, it's the way someone talks to someone they have deep feelings for. Now, I see Sanford as someone in an untenable situation, albeit a situation he put himself in.

That being said, from the way Sanford describes this woman, I REALLY want to see some pics.

[Jade Fox]

73. I think a lot of women are familiar....

with this sort of semi-sophisticated male-on-the-make (remember "my wife doesn't understand me"?). His feelings are real enough, especially for her special parts and tan lines! :rofl:

The fact that Sanford isn't crude or pornographic doesn't mean anything. What sort of women do you think responds to a man whose sends her crude, pornographic emails?

[madeline_con]

59. His priorities ...

During the presser, he said he "hurt her (the girlfriend), the wife and the boys. In that oder.

"... my heart cries out for you, your voice, your body, the touch of your lips, the touch of your finger tips and an even deeper connection to your soul.”

[Gwendolyn]

64. Could those emails have been more "Remains of the Day" in tone?

Not getting "sexy" from them by a longshot. If no one had revealed who wrote them, one could be envisioning Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson corresponding throughout some stifled, impossible relationship. Very tacky for whoever did it, to put them out there. Everyone's admitted to their failings.

[UndertheOcean]

65. This is very sad , The human heart is uncontrollable sometimes

I sympathize for all parties . The rejected wife , rejection is very awful. And the love struck husband. And especially the kids.

[Kahuna]

68. Ew. I feel yucky.

:smoke:

[Cha]

69. I want to see a picture of

Maria..she must be something!

[Jade Fox]

72. "I love your tan lines"?

Ooooooo baby!!!!

[gatorboy]

76. (or two magnificent parts of yourself)

Does that make him a boob man?

[lanlady]

78. The woman's English is awfully good

Sounds like an ex-pat living in BA, maybe married to an Argentinian.

[anigbrowl]

94. Yes, because foreign people can't speak English good

Seriously, it sounds to me like someone who has a university degree and some business experience. And written English doesn't have an accent. I've known a LOT of people who acquired English as a second (or even a third) language and who speak and write English better than people who grew up here. You really can't jump to conclusions on the basis of someone's facility with the language.

[RandomThoughts]

83. The guy made a mistake, and their are issues regarding that.

But why do people have to make fun of him?

And why are his private emails, where he shows fondness, even if not a proper relationship, why are they being used to hurt him. They seemed to be honest expressions of love between two people.

I am curious how are they public, they seem to be items that do not effect his social job, although leaving work without telling anyone does, the emails themselves seem personal.

How is laughing or making fun of his feelings any different then what some of those people did to Clinton or other people?

I respect the guy, even though his comments might have been because he got caught, he was pretty honest and up front about it.

I have heard people making fun of his emails and it seems like going a bit far, using his feelings of love his humanity against him.

Maybe I am over sensitive to it, maybe I am being hypocritical since I have probably done the same things at times.

However, regardless of how I disagree with his political views, I feel sorrow for his suffering in a tough time, and do wish him the best for him to be able to make it through the difficulties.

[Indenturedebtor]

86. Save your feelings for all of the gay people he's hurt directly and intentionally

or for the thousands who died when Shrub was elected pretzledent following the Clinton Impeachment.

To hell with this guy... decency and compassion be damned.

[RandomThoughts]

92. Can't I have feelings for both.

I can disagree with what someone does without disliking them. I can even argue against, and stand against people without disliking them.

I know I am a hypocrite at times, and make mistakes, and I have found when I get mad at the person, I forget about the issue.

So I try, although I don't always succeed, to try and not like what is done and not the person.

But I think I understand your frustration.

[Indenturedebtor]

93. I guess hehe... but still this guys is an enemy of humanity

I don't relish his suffering or anything but I relish the idea of it!

[Hello_Kitty]

88. When a woman makes a 'mistake' and gets pregnant

Sanford thinks she should be forced to carry the fetus to term. Or she can risk being maimed or killed by a back alley or coat hanger abortion.

[Hannah Bell]

87. How did the paper get these emails?

"E-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov. Mark Sanford and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina."


From one of the two parties?
From the email or internet purveyors?
From gov't surveillance?

How?


Seems strange they're so quickly available to the public with no apparent legal problems.

[gatorboy]

90. I say it was Maria's man.

Sanford's wife I don't see doing it. She managed all of his campaigns. Worked her ass off. In a sense his success was probably alot of her doing. I don't see her tearing that down.

Maria's guy, on the other hand, doesn't have as much to lose, I'm sire. Plus, he probably didn't like reading that Maria had no love for him. Just my hunch.