Posted on 09/23/2013 11:05:58 PM PDT by neverdem
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The most obnoxious and unsuitable person in modern American public life had just been defeated. Eliot Spitzer lost his race for comptroller of New York City. That is a city notoriously capable of electing stupefyingly inappropriate people, but even New York balked at Spitzer.
This was the man who persecuted Richard Grasso at the New York Stock Exchange, threatened the very distinguished John Whitehead and Ken Langone over that case; intimidated and threatened the directors of AIG and helped ruin that great company, and accused its great builder Maurice (Hank) Greenberg of crimes in the media, but did not prosecute and his civil case against him collapsed.
Mr. Spitzer is resisting calls for his own emails on the AIG case, and lost the Marsh McLennan and Merrill Lynch prosecutions (that should never have been taken); and as governor and as attorney general, he committed the crime of paying for the services of prostitutes while masquerading as a pillar of probity and public morals. He is an unregenerate menace to society.
The United States re-elected an inadequate president but its largest city has held the red line on someone manifestly unfit for public office. There is a safety net of some public judgment somewhere, though it seems to require a near-death-plunge in municipal office to find it.
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Hmmm. I wonder why I have a sneaking suspicion Spitzer isn’t done trying to worm his way back into so-called “public service.” I wonder whether his compulsion to seek high office has anything with his craving for revenge against normal people.
Despicable as he is, he can't hold a candle to Weiner in that department - and he doesn't sleep with the Muslim Brotherhood.
“Hope” for our political system? When your choices are a prostitute-loving liar, a documented pervert and a Proven Communist? Yeah, well if that’s hope, I don’t want any.
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