Of the current candidates vying for their party’s presidential nomination, three of the five are on their second, or third, marriages.
Two of the five (that we know of) have had children out of wedlock.
There’s Donald Trump, naturally, who flaunts his irresponsibility as a sign of manliness. He divorced his first wife to marry the mother of a child conceived on the side. He is now married a third time.
There’s John Kasich, governor of Ohio, whose first marriage ended in divorce after five years.
And then there’s Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., who is on his second marriage after his first ended in divorce, but neither of his wives are the mother of his son Levi, now 46.
Levi’s mother was a “relationship” that occurred between Sanders’s two marriages.
In all his campaigns over the past 40-plus years as a mayor, state legislator, U.S. Senator and now for the Democratic nomination, this information has never come to light.
Most likely, the senator probably thought the facts of his son’s birth were not germane to his role as a U.S. statesman.
Nor should they be.
But consider if Hillary Clinton were in the same boat.
Think she could get a pass?
Oh but her husband, Bill, is a stinker.
Yes, he was.
Hillary’s crime? She stood by her man, which, though debatable in itself, is not the same as being responsible for her husband’s poor decisions.
