d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote:
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> >
> >The report is that he did not pay support and has denied the relationship.
> >Combining lying with being a deadbeat dad moves this from personal conduct
> >to public morality. If he secretly paid support, he will be fine I agree,
> >but if the report is true of denial and no support, he will be hoisted on
> >his own "responsibility" rhetoric and driven out.
>
> I read the reports, though obviously not carefully enough, but I didn't
> catch this. Still, if he were the father then why didn't she have the
> paternity test done a long time ago? Prob b/c they paid her off, no? And
> besides, you think people are going to have some sort of sympathy with her
> against him. Of course, he's likely to deny fathering a child, she was a
> prostitute and, ostensibly, any number of men could have fathered that
> child. I'm not saying he's right; I'm just characterizing what I think
> public opinion is likely to be. Oh for awhile we'll have some heated
> conversations and then it'll die down as it has in the past. I just don't
> think that they'll get much out of this is all.
>
> There was a case reported in Slate not too long ago. The author maintained
> that women who deceive their partners into fathering children are
> committing 'monetary fraud' Furthermore, the editor typed, as far as he was
> concerned this is the only type fraud that is regularly *rewarded* Yeah,
> that's right: A journalist could bring himself to say rather easily it
> appears that colleting child support from relunctant male parents is a form
> of monetary fraud. And when Brad de Long and I brought it up on another
> list--a list of relatively left leaning people--there were just as many
> mails in supporting this assertion as there were disgusted by it.
>
> > Many have teetered at that spot in recent
> >months and this will be the final push.
>
> Maybe in the political arena. But in terms of public opinion I don't think
> it'll matter one wit. I think no one will be surprised after eveything
> that's come out. It may well, though, be enough to justify a push toward
> impeachment. But again, I think if they get too carried away tarring and
> feathering people are going to get sick of it really quickly.
>
> K