Ginger White gave a very poignant interview to Lawrence O'Donnell on 12/1 on MSNBC.
The whole reason for which she I speaking out and describing their 13 years in the relationship with Herman Cain which she says was never a love relationship but, rather, a sexual one.
Pundits had been saying that she had first spoken out because he was ridiculing the others who had accused him of sexual misconduct. She claims it has never been political. She further says that word of their relationship had leaked out to local press and local media was closing in on her with questions. The local media planned to go with it it as a story whether she cooperated or not. She decided it best, after talking to her 20 year old daughter and 18 year old son, and sharing the truth with them. The family remains supportive to her.
She says she has not received any money for speaking out. Neither of them ever told the other they were in love. She says it was totally a sexual relationship with someone who was a friend, fun to be with, but that she was intrigued with him. She was offered a getaway from her every day life.
Listening to the very sensitive interview conducted by O'Donnell, it was difficult to understand what this all meant to Ms. White during the 13 years with her 'friend'. She speaks without a great deal of emotion about an affair she describes lacked a great deal of emotion. Nothing she said was particularly contradictory. She answered candidly, taking a few seconds to think before she answered..In summary, she made it sound not unlike what many single parents have done...that is, leap at kindness and financial help from a rich man offering fun and sex and relief from the tedium of life. She apologizes to his wife and children (more than he has done so far) and one is left wondering what he told her about the wife she never met or why he entered into the relationship for all those years as he did with her.
On 11/29, I wrote a blog expressing similarities to the extramarital relationships Tiger Woods had, each of the many knowing that h was married but not bothered by that fact. They got angry and spiteful only after they learned that they were not singularly his love but rather, the affair du jour.
Whatever the explanations are, the way Cain has handled the allegations of sexual harassment and his campaign in general, does not commend him to me as a man I could respect as President of the USA. For me, it is not a moral issue but rather as issue of his poor judgement and choices, lack of qualifications for the Presidency, lack of understanding foreign relations, the Constitution and what he would need to know to run the country..
The whole reason for which she I speaking out and describing their 13 years in the relationship with Herman Cain which she says was never a love relationship but, rather, a sexual one.
Pundits had been saying that she had first spoken out because he was ridiculing the others who had accused him of sexual misconduct. She claims it has never been political. She further says that word of their relationship had leaked out to local press and local media was closing in on her with questions. The local media planned to go with it it as a story whether she cooperated or not. She decided it best, after talking to her 20 year old daughter and 18 year old son, and sharing the truth with them. The family remains supportive to her.She says she has not received any money for speaking out. Neither of them ever told the other they were in love. She says it was totally a sexual relationship with someone who was a friend, fun to be with, but that she was intrigued with him. She was offered a getaway from her every day life.
Listening to the very sensitive interview conducted by O'Donnell, it was difficult to understand what this all meant to Ms. White during the 13 years with her 'friend'. She speaks without a great deal of emotion about an affair she describes lacked a great deal of emotion. Nothing she said was particularly contradictory. She answered candidly, taking a few seconds to think before she answered..In summary, she made it sound not unlike what many single parents have done...that is, leap at kindness and financial help from a rich man offering fun and sex and relief from the tedium of life. She apologizes to his wife and children (more than he has done so far) and one is left wondering what he told her about the wife she never met or why he entered into the relationship for all those years as he did with her.
On 11/29, I wrote a blog expressing similarities to the extramarital relationships Tiger Woods had, each of the many knowing that h was married but not bothered by that fact. They got angry and spiteful only after they learned that they were not singularly his love but rather, the affair du jour.
Whatever the explanations are, the way Cain has handled the allegations of sexual harassment and his campaign in general, does not commend him to me as a man I could respect as President of the USA. For me, it is not a moral issue but rather as issue of his poor judgement and choices, lack of qualifications for the Presidency, lack of understanding foreign relations, the Constitution and what he would need to know to run the country..
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