By snoadmin
The recent New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer scandal, the one when he was caught using the services of a call-girl website (which is now shut down, thanks to a lot you nosy people of the United States), has all of the country judging the politician.
Oh, beautiful America, how you surprise me. You will sell sex on TV, but will scorn a horny politician for buying sex. Although “THIS WEEK” doesn’t promote prostitution or cheating on your spouse, I would like to ask the newspaper and gossip readership of this country, “How is this any of our business?”
A New York woman was quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying that if politicians nowadays “can’t be good to their wives, how do we know they will be good to us?”
Here’s my problem with the whole issue. This man was once seen as a leader, who nailed people in power involved with corruption and was called “Crusader of the Year” in 2002 by Time Magazine.
How is it that we can forget about the good things a politician is actually capable of doing and judge him because of some bad personal choices? Why do we base the quality of politicians on what they do with their penises rather than how they do their actual jobs?
Sure, it was hypocritical on his part to once break up a couple of New York City prostitution rings then go ahead and use the services of a prostitute himself.
However, the fact that we judge a politician because of his personal choices rather than on what he’s doing to rid the government of bad politicians doesn’t say much about our own judgment. Or whatever.
-Julio Salgado
