Before I leave work for the weekend and go without intranet for a while, I just wanted to share this story with anyone who hasn't heard it yet:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/08/09/jon-stewart-slams-mccains-racist-hypocritical-disgraceful-fl-campaign-chair/
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2007/08/homosexual-pani.html
The stuff in the second article about "homosexual panic" is just hilarious.
For the record, this guy very recently pushed forward legislation against sex in public places. It was of course already illegal, presumably he wanted to make it MORE illegal. From Bob Allen to Newt Gingrich* to Mark Foley*, it seems every time someone makes a big stink about something of a "sexually deviant" nature, they're guilty of it themselves. I'm not a psychologist, so I can't explain exactly what it is that makes people do this, but it's usually the person screaming the loudest against something that is the biggest deviant of the bunch.
*Mark Foley - I'm sure everyone remembers his scandal where he sexually harassed young male pages, mostly over AIM. What many people didn't know is that he had previously drafted legislation to protect children from online predators.
*Newt Gingrich - During the Clinton impeachment trial, where Newt was one of the loudest voices for impeaching Clinton for getting a hummer in the oval office and putting a cigar where it probably didn't belong, Mr. Gingrich was, of course, having an affair himself.
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Examples keep turning up, as early as Bill Clinton and as recent as Mark Foley, that have constantly reaffirmed my lifelong stance to never take advice on morality from lifelong politicians, as both Clinton and Foley are. The role of politician has morphed over the past couple hundred years from a figure of reverence, dignity and selflessness to one of self-service and indulgence. One reason for this, of course, is the 24-hour media industry, which peels back layers of all our public figures, revealing them for the true mistake-prone humans that they are, and often, for the atrocious, scandal-ridden individuals that they are. Politicians have always had skeletons in their closets to some degree, but of course, we don't exactly know too much about the vices of a Thomas Jefferson or an Abraham Lincoln.
But I think just as large a reason is that politics itself has become an industry, a very self-serving one, in which individuals will enter the fray at a young age, into quite a handsome, consequence-free lifestyle, very much like a celebrity lifestyle, in which appetite for anything is immediately satisfied. In the meantime, they lose touch with the very people they are claiming to represent simply because they've lost touch of what reality really is. I long for the days in which a lifelong businessman, doctor, or army officer makes the decision to go to Washington and to serve for a finite amount of time to make a difference for their country, and then humbly step out when their time has passed, and the next private citizen will step in.
But back to the point: I am never particularly surprised at any of these news stories that sniff out our honorable elected officials, both Democrat and Republican, as cheaters, embezzlers, or pedophiles because of the decadence of their lifestyle, a way of life very foreign to most of the rest of us. It sounds like an apathetic view, and it is.
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