Anthony Weiner should not have resigned his seat in Congress

1) I agree that it wasnt illegal, but the point of his actions were that they were immoral for someone who is supposed to represent the people who voted for him along with those who didnt. He did that very poorly and the public outcry for his immorality caused him to resign, which he should have and did. 2) Lying is still lying, and that again goes under poor representation of the people. the lying doesnt justify anything he did and the fact that he lied about only further incriminated him and highlighted his immoral behavior. When Clinton was impeached it wasnt on charges of having an affair with an intern it was over perjury for lying about it, adultery is not a crime but perjury is... As for the not under oath argument, lying is still lying and it only further destroy's his public image, credibility, and confidence among voters. 3) When the Clinton affair was exposed, his popularity numbers and approval ratings didnt dip or fall at all because people were happy with his management of the economy. The people also felt that he ultimately should not be impeached. When the Lewinsky scandal broke out, it became national news in late January of 1998, during that time polls showed no clear drop in approval ratings from January on, in fact the year after the affair, Clinton's approval ratings went up from the high 60's back to the mid 60's and stayed there for the remainder of his term. http://www.gallup.com... Weiner though, his approval ratings dropped to 8% approval, half that of George Bush, and his ratings were so low he had the lowest approval ratings of any congressmen. http://www.politicususa.com... As for the other scandals, those people didnt suffer from the catastrophic fall in approval ratings that Weiner suffered through as a result of his sexual affairs and thus retained some degree of credibility in politics, Weiner did not... "Poor moral choices do not reflect a politician's ability to hold strong stances in politics and continue to work for public interest" Andrew Johnson was an American president who became president following the assassination of President Lincoln. Johnson was a racist when growing up in the southern US who had an early hatred of blacks. He vetoed the Civil Rights Bill granting blacks the right to vote and the bill had to be passed over his veto.... What was Johnson's reason behind vetoing this bill? "They establish for the security of the colored race safeguards which go infinitely beyond any that the General Government has ever provided for the white race. In fact, the distinction of race and color is by the bill made to operate in favor of the colored and against the white race" http://wps.prenhall.com... Johnson vetoed the Bill because it didnt give white people didnt benefit from it.... Politicians can act based on their own questionable morals and beliefs. Anthony Weiner was a very immoral politician whose approval numbers tanked following the controversy and was impossible to overcome, public outcry was very evident since people from the public and Congress wanted to remove him from office (see links below) and at the same time he was found to have lied to the public many times regarding this affair which destroyed any credibility he had left to his name..... That is why I think he should have retired http://www.foxnews.com... http://www.economist.com... http://www.cbsnews.com...