Skeletons in The Closet.

As Sara has stated in her blog, I too, feel that this article about Christine O’Donnell and her one night stand is simply a sad attempt at someone’s 15 minutes of fame and down right pathetic. Ok. We all have skeletons in your closets. I mean, yeah she may have done something lame while intoxicated; but, I mean, come on…we all have done it at one point in our lives. As the article says, this incident happened three years before she ran for office. I’m sure she put it behind her and would never think that it would come back to haunt her; but, unfortunately it did. Truthfully, I really don’t care about her past and what she did. My main goal is to focus on her views, promises and beliefs as to what she plans to do as a politician—regardless of what she did one time when drunk or not. As I said before, EVERYONE has a past that he/she regrets. It is all about learning from the mistakes in the past to build a better future, which, it seems Christine is trying to do.

I feel that sometimes, the media tends to focus on political candidates (as well as celebrities) private lives and (as Sara has mentioned in her blog) not enough on where they stand on current events and issues. I totally agree that if this had happened this past Halloween when she was running for office, of course this story might be a little more interesting because it would be during her time running for office, and is in the present.

We all have skeletons in our closets, don’t we? No one is perfect, no matter whom you are. Period. Even though I feel that some people like to think that the people they see on TV such as celebrities or politicians are perfect, in reality is, that is not the case. I mean, I understand they are public figures and all and as a result should be positive role models or what have you; but, we still need to have limits of how much we should invade their private lives. Unless it 100% effects us audience members, the media/people should NOT get involved or bring it up. This is why I am not a fan of tabloid news…I really don’t care if Michael Phelps was caught with weed, that is HIS life. He can do what he wants. Yes, I understand that he may be a public figure that someone wants idolizes or whatever; but, it should be up to the parents to say to they kids “what Michael did is wrong and you should not do.” I mean, at least Michael came out and admitted to it and spoke how he was wrong and made a poor decision. So, as far as I am concerned, he did the right thing—and that is what the people should be focusing on.