The Foley scandal is a bittersweet mix of disgust and amusing irony. The disgust factor is obvious: he was actively pursuing teenagers for the purpose of engaging in acts with a minor (translation: he's a pedophile). In the case of the 16-year-old that he had a crush on, from the time frame that Foley had sent these emails, his interest in the boy began when the kid was at least 15. It is bad enough that key GOP members were aware that Foley was under the assumption that the job title "page" was code-talk for "teenage sex buffet," and they gave him a warning, but what is even worse is that the FBI was made aware of his actions in July 2005 - he has apparently been chasing pages for three years - and did nothing.
The amusing irony is that this is the same group that raised so much hell about Clinton consorting with a woman of legal age to the point of wanting to kick him out of office. Perhaps if Lewinsky was 16 or under, Clinton's affair would have been more acceptable.
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