South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, still clinging to office after admitting to an extramarital affair, wrote in an opinion piece released Sunday that God will change him so he can emerge from the scandal a more humble and effective leader.
"(W)hile none of us has the chance to attend our own funeral, in many ways I feel like I was at my own in the past weeks, and surprisingly I am thankful for the perspective it has afforded," Sanford wrote in the opinion piece widely published online Sunday by South Carolina newspapers.
Sanford, a two-term Republican, returned from a mysterious, nearly weeklong disappearance last month to reveal a romance with a longtime friend in Argentina. In a series of Associated Press interviews, he described the woman as his "soul mate" but said he would work to repair his relationship with his wife, Jenny, the mother of their four sons.
Some lawmakers have called for Sanford to resign, and one state senator plans hearings on whether state money was used to facilitate the trysts. A criminal probe found nothing illegal.
Sanford and his wife left the state earlier this week for an undisclosed location and are expected to return Sunday evening, spokesman Joel Sawyer said.
In the opinion, Sanford vows to work with lawmakers he's long fought and cites scripture and his faith in God -- just as he's done in his few public appearances since admitting the affair.
"It's in the spirit of making good from bad that I am committing to you and the larger family of South Carolinians to use this experience to both trust God in his larger work of changing me, and from my end, to work to becoming a better and more effective leader," he wrote.
The promise comes as the term-limited governor approaches his final legislative session. Even before the scandal, he admitted the session would offer him little chance of success in pushing a small-government agenda that sought to give his office more authority. The possibility of a White House run in 2012 has all but disappeared.
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Someone ought to convince this schmuck that "When you're in a hole, stop digging" is a Bible verse...maybe then he'll finally STFU and go away.
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...He really did luck out when Michael Jackson shuffled off this mortal coil a couple days later. He's got no intention of being the first SC governor run out of office since 1865, and even the Columbia paper says there just isn't enough indignation to push him out.
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Actually, from Christian theology, God will make him better -- as a matter of fact its his only recourse.
But he keeps overlooking the components of reconciling one's self to God from a state of sin: penance (sack-cloth and ashes were the uniform of the day for that long ago) and reparations (making whole what you damaged), as well as genuine repentance.
Gov Sanford seems to be missing all 3.
I am thankful this happened - this guy was slated to be a GOP establishment front runner in 2012.
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All true. I do not mean to imply that he should give up on his current marriage, but he has said and done a lot of things that are not likely to lead to reconciliation. Whether that path is closed to him, which was my underlying assumption above, or not, he needs to accept the consequences and show some respect for one of these two women before he says another word. His behavior to this point has been ghastly.
The stimulus bill "includes help for those hardest hit by our economic crisis," President Obama promised when he signed the bill into law on Feb. 17. "As a whole, this plan will help poor and working Americans."
But FOXNews.com has analyzed data tracking how the stimulus money is being given out across the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and it has found a perverse pattern: the states hardest hit by the recession received the least money. States with higher bankruptcy, foreclosure and unemployment rates got less money. And higher income states received more.
The transfers to the states having the least problems are large. Even after accounting for other factors, each $1,000 in a state's per capita income means that the state got $21 more per capita in stimulus funds. With a spread of almost $38,000 in per-person income between the top and bottom states, this has a sizable impact. High-income states get considerably more stimulus money.
States with higher bankruptcy rates got a lot less, not more, money -- roughly $86 less per person for each percentage point increase in the state's bankruptcy rate. States with higher foreclosure rates were treated very similarly, losing $82 per person for each one percentage point more of the people suffering foreclosures.
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The transfers to the states having the least problems are large.
Well, those with money have more to give to the Party(c). Those will less money may actually spend it stupidly on things like food, clothing, shelter. It's about power Baby and keeping it.
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There's a false premise that the "stimulus" was meant to deal with economic problems as opposed to massive patronage to people / groups that support Obama and the Democrats.
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Check "Stimuls" spending on a county by county per-capita bases. THe vast majority of it is going to "blue" counties. "Red" ones are being screwed over. That's the Chicago way. Obama and his co-conspirators in Congress are nothing more than gangsters.
Gerald Walpin, the AmeriCorps inspector general who was summarily fired in June amid controversy over his investigation of a politically-connected supporter of President Obama, has filed suit alleging that the firing was "unlawful," "politically driven," "procedurally defective" and "a transparent and clumsily-conducted effort to circumvent the protections" given to inspectors general under the Inspectors General Reform Act of 2008.
Walpin's suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, is against the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps. Also named are Nicola Goren, the acting CEO of the Corporation, Frank Trinity, its general counsel, and Raymond Limon, the Corporation's "chief human capital officer." The suit asks the court to declare Walpin's firing unlawful and restore him to his position as the Corporation's inspector general.
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[Geo News] Punjab MPA Shumaila Rana allegedly involved in the credit card scandal has been granted pre-arrest bail. Additional sessions Judge of sessions court Lahore, Shaikh Sajjad Ahmed granting pre-arrest provisional bail against Rs50,000, ordered her to appear before court on July 23. Earlier, Shumaila Rana arrived in a car with tinted glasses and tried to hide herself from the mediamen.
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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, still clinging to office after admitting to an extramarital affair, wrote in an opinion piece released Sunday that God will change him so he can emerge from the scandal a more humble and effective leader.
