Herman Cain's Saga Continues: 13-year, just-ended affair alleged.

Molly Ball:

A woman in Georgia told a local TV station in Atlanta Monday that she had a 13-year affair with presidential candidate Herman Cain that ended just eight months ago, right before he entered the Republican primary.

Ginger White, described as a "businesswoman" in the report by the Fox affiliate, supplied copies of her cell phone bills that showed 61 calls and texts over four months ending this September. When the station texted the number, Cain called back, according to the report.

White said she came forward because she was offended by the way Cain attempted to minimize and dismiss allegations of sexual harassment that have come to light over the last month. "It bothered me that they were demonized," she said.

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White said she met Cain in the late 1990s when he was president of the National Restaurant Association and she liked a presentation he gave in Kentucky. She knew he was married, she said, but the affair "was fun. It was something that took me away from my humdrum life at the time." Cain, she said, flew her around and showered her with gifts.

In response to the story, Cain's lawyer, Lin Wood, issued a statement that was breathtaking in its avoidance of a direct denial of the affair: He noted that in this case, Cain was not accused of harassment or assault but of "private, alleged consensual conduct between adults," and contended that this is "not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public."

We're not quite in Gary Hart, follow-me-if-you-don't-believe-me territory, but it's getting close.

Comments

[Noni Mausa]

Um . . . why does this story persistently remind me of Bill Clinton and that little blue dress?

To say nothing of the $80M taxpayer dollars that was spent on it. http://articles.cnn.com/1999-04-01/politics/counsel.probe.costs_1_special-counsel-probe-david-m-barrett?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

The Cain impeachment, due to inflation, will probably be double that. Hey, a stimulus program!

Noni

[The Armchair Philosopher]

What we have here is a failure of responsibility. (Isn't this remniscient of Strother Martin's famous one-liner in Cool Hand Luke: What we have here is a failure to communicate?---don't remember it?---look it up, I'm sure it is online somewhere-everything else is.) G--damned politicians are just a clown show. But, this is where we are---we get what we are willing to tolerate. I thought the OCCUPY movement was useless, initially. Now, I am not so sure. Understand me, please: this is not exclusively a free-world problem. You and I know that power corrupts everywhere. Yet, power, by its very nature, will not be denied.

Think about the continuing world conflict and you may be less dismayed by semen stains on a little blue dress---those are mere symptoms of the greater disease.