Sis Ginny,

I apologise for the general statement I made earlier. I think that I was reacting on impulse for the simple fact that this film maker has succeeded in sending Edwards packing his political baggage. I find it hard to swallow because it is burning the walls of my thraot. I only meant to say a portion of celebrities. Please accept my apologies and to any other person I might has offended with my thread you quoted above. I came to realize, I erred greatly by my utterance of it, especially the manner of generalization. 

Sincerely Yours,
YJ










Re: Has the Edwards finally stumbled?‏‏
From: 	Ginny Quick ([log in to unmask])
Sent: 	Sun 8/10/08 8:50 AM
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"It is a known fact that our women in the US are too much into
celebrity recognition. They will do everything, including having
affairs with Senators, governors
and presidential hopefuls inorder to get their names out in the media.
 Matter of fact, their intentions might have nothing to do with
tarnishing the likes
of Edwards. Man is obviously created weak."
 
While this may be true (though I personally don't know any woman who
would engage in such behavior because of some celebrity), I don't
think it's necessarily limited to American women.
 
We do, however, in this country anyway (can't speak for anyone else),
do put celebrities on pedestals, and we do anything we can to get the
scoop on their private affairs, i.e., who they're dating, where they
went yesterday, they can't even shop, go to the club, probably even
use the bathroom without someone reporting it.
 
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a singer, still like to sing (though
now I'm too embarrassed to sing in front of people), but as I got
older, I wasn't sure if firstly, I'd have the, how do I say it,
looks/stamina/whatever it took to break into the busienss, and
secondly, I wasn't sure if I could handle the whole world in my
business.  However, my life took another turn, and I ended up doing
other things.
 
But anyway, we have a bad problem in this country of idolizing
celebrities/artists, when we really should be looking up to people
such as teachers, community leaders, and people that are actually
doing good, and not say artists, for example, who are, in many cases,
are fake to the core, all you see is the image they put out, and we
don't even know the real person anyway, so people are idolizing
somethign not comletely real anyway.
 
Anyway, I'm kind of digressing fromt he original topic anyway, so I'll
stop here.
 
Ginny
 
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