I wish you'd come right out with it, Houellebecq, and say what you mean, instead of beating around the bush like that.

I must confess, I thought the topic was the handling of the issue by the media, not a detailed character assessment of the combatants.

Still, it's good to have another perspective.

I would find it hard to believe that the NSW Labour party would have anyone left who is any better than Della Bosca. This twisted woman who willingly engaged with Bosca must really be a nasty piece of work. Instead of being ashamed of having sex with another woman's husband she gets on her high horse and wants him destroyed. Bosca shows he has a little more character than Clinton in at least he resigned and faced up to the fact that adultery is wrong and destroys families. A bit more than what this woman predator did.

Houellebecq, or is that Holla ba lou. I think we've met. Were you the one that told me that, "all mem if accused of rape should go to jail, weather they did it or not. Just to make up for the ones that did it & got away with it." Hmm... sound just like you.

The guess hairy legged boilersuit brigade believe that all women are victims of men, regardless of weather the women has purposely seduced the man for monetery gain & notoriety or not. She has done a Lewinsky or a "click, click, Bang, Bang." Now she's a "victim."

Unfortunately Graham has made me lie & be Politically Correct. What ever that means. Those nice sounding adjectives were not my first choice of words. but, I guess, you all would have realized that. I do tend to call a spade a spade not a wonderfully tuned instrument for removing the fill from a hole. ;-)

Holla ba lou, living a fantasy is fine but at some time you will have to get a life.

I see the Calvinists have emerged on this thread - the ones who lock up their women while they do the weekly shopping.

It is a well known fact that since time immemorial, crusty old codgers have dangled their carrots (pun?) by promising pretty young things they'll leave their wives and family:

"But from day dot John led me to believe that his marriage was dead and then as I grew to love him he reassured me that we had a future together:" (http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,26016155-5008620,00.html)

"at least he resigned and faced up to the fact that adultery is wrong and destroys families."

Faced up to the fact or caught out Runner? Yeah right you are - so his lies and treachery impacted on one wife, two children, an impressionable young woman and his entire constituency.

While he may not be popular with the public this bloke is both honest and very good at his job.
I too think he should not have lost his job, and that he very much has been the victim here.
His run for the top job, to a few was the only hope my party had.
yes our current leader will try to fatten that pig on market day, put on the white shirt front up to the bar and buy a round.
Kiss kids and turn on the charm, but still run last in a two horse race.
Dela at least may have got home in front of the clerk of the course.
Females gravitate to powerful men, rich men, old men too.
No evidence has been put how this started, we only know it ended with publicity for both bad for one cash for the other.

an impressionable young woman. Protagoras, Yeah right! pthhh...
I just choked in my beer.
Gullible old goat is more like it. You guys who portray this
"impressionable young woman" as a victim need to take your skirts off. She knew exactly what she was doing & how to go about making a quid. He was just too stupid to realize it. She showed him a bit of "breast" & he thought he was in. In alright, sucked in. She need to be shown up for "the impressionable young woman" she is. I'm not allowed to say what I really think she is.