Gov Sanford: "God will change me, make me more humble". Do you agree?

[Bucky]

Cheating SC gov says God will make him better

By SEANNA ADCOX (AP) – July 19, 2009

COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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.

[PDJane]

1. If there is a supreme being,

He's somewhere shaking his head and snickering.

[Curtland1015]

2. I love the irony of talking about how humble you're going to be.

I'm going to be TWICE as humble as you!!!

[spanone]

3. i'll bet god wants nothing to do with the should be ex-gov

[mike_c]

counting on a delusion....

:rofl:

[OHdem10]

4. Why do I have visions of Jimmy Swaggart.

Sanford will do well to go low profile and give up Presidential
Hopes.

America is not going to vote for someone so tight he wouold not
employ firefighters if he could get away with it. THEN when
he takes trips he is Mr Big Spender for himself.

This invoking God reminds me of Jimmy Swaggart.

He thinks because he was "in love" this makes skirt chasing
okay. Some Media think so too.

[sutz12]

5. When man makes plans, God laughs...

Sorry, bro, but you don't learn humility through hubristic, narcissistic acts.

When I see some humility out of you, I'll believe it, maybe.

"The secret is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you have it made."

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/sincerity/

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. The GOP version of, "The Debbil Made Me Do It".

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. I voted for God being too busy laughing. Even the Bible says so!

Proverbs 1:25-27

25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

[imdjh]

8. Sanford can be saved, but he has to stop pegging. nt

[shraby]

9. Sanford is the only one who can change Sanford.

Don't think the man can do it..hasn't he heard about "free will"?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

10. That was a typo in the heavenly fax. God is making you even more of a HUMBUG.

And see, it's already working.

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. God is very, very sick of Republican hypocrites (sorry, that is an oxymoron)

[Hydra]

12. God must get very tired of people speaking for him

Every time I turn around, someone's trying to claim his will and his word...even as they spew their agenda.

[seabeyond]

13. quote... change has to come from within, freewill, must help yourself before...

sanford has the work to do, not god...

this is where i hear the fundamentalist go time and again and then wonder why... they are all sinners, gotta make it true what you tell self

[Loudmxr]

14. I go with the love. How many times did I turn away from love?

2 1/2 times. OK the 1/2 was a little crazy but I still should have gone for it. But the job or distance made me choose. How different my life would be.

Mind you I would not be the civil rights leader currently under attack that I am today. Or I would be a civil rights guy under attack in a different way in a different place. Who knows?? :shrug:

[ejpoeta]

15. i love when people use 'god' as their crutch. he might as well say that

booze will make him more humble. it's easier, i guess, to not have to take responsibility for your actions when it can be for someone else to fix.

[RagAss]

16. Right...shift the responsibility to a hallucination, you scumbag !

[hedgehog]

17. God will get right on that - just as soon as he makes a rock

too heavy for him to lift.

[alterfurz]

18. when are the networks finally going to cancel "Sanford & Sin"?

This show jumped the shark a number of episodes ago already!

[nebenaube]

19. He will only be humbled by losing the powers he has acquired. n/t

[liberalhistorian]

20. As a Christian myself, I do believe it's possible, I've personally

seen it many times. HOWEVER. You have to really want it and not just be pandering for political and public reasons and not just "use" your faith in pandering, which is exactly what Sanford is doing. I don't believe he's genuine, I believe he's pandering.

[Bucky]

21. I'm a little more generous toward the governor than you, I'm afraid

I don't think he's pandering. I think he's sincerely sick and self-deluded. I truly think he's fooling himself. It's apparently not tough to do.

[Mz Pip]

22. I hope God changes

Sanford into a potted plant. Creationism at its best.

Poof! He's an African Violet!

"Hi! My name is Marc. I used to be a Governor, but with the help of God, I changed."

[LeftishBrit]

30. BWAHAHA! That would certainly make him much nicer!

[Deja Q]

23. It's up to fellow citizens to do that. You're right, God *is* too busy laughing...

Or at least placing bets on the football game...

:(

[Shallah Kali]

24. So kind of God to arrange for S.C. to finance his personal growth like this

while traveling first class on trips to meet his soul mate, taking time off without notice to meet aforementioned Soul Mate, etc. I am sure every South Carolinian is just thrilled to bits to be able to foot the bill for this deadbeat governer's soul improvement project :sarcasm:

[donheld]

25. Is this the same god who made him a lying piece of shit?

[chucker47]

26. God CAN change him

Whether he changes is between him and God. I hope he does. However, he is no longer fit to be our Governor and should resign.
As long as he remains in office he will be a distraction within SC and an embarrassment. He needs to do the right thing. Then
he will be free to save himself and find another direction for his life. He, AND his family, deserve this.

[noiretextatique]

27. not sure if god with change him, but an indictment might

:thumbsup:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

28. So God used Sanford's erect Republican penis as an instrument for turning him into a better leader?

"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.

:spray:

:rofl:

[Bucky]

32. "Give me a pole long enough and a fulcrum to place it on and I can move the world" --Archimedes

Perhaps Mr Sanford has a very long pole indeed. Obviously it's so big it was being wasted on just one woman.

[Swede]

29. Yeah,he's just oozing humble.

Well oozing something anyhoo.

[havocmom]

31. Other: god is preparing the way for the next GOP hypocrite bozo's press conference to admit cheating

God loves to smite C Street bozos.

Rachel Maddow is doing god's work.

God farts in Bill-O's general direction.

[DefenseLawyer]

33. And the Lord said "You gotta rise up!"

So he did.