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| A politician is born |
Two of them are lawyers.
The third one, A. Weiner, majored in political science
(there’s really nothing scientific about politics), so he might as well be a
lawyer.
Consider the ramifications. You might want to reflect on
that nugget the next time you vote.
Lawyers always run for office and they always seem to
win.
And most of them succumb to the inevitable magnetism of
power.
I would venture to guess that, being lawyers, they somehow
feel empowered and compelled to lead us.
If I’m venturing guesses, I would suggest that their
expertise in the laws of the land excites them, gives them a sense of
unparalleled power.
Weiner flashes his anatomy on smart phones.
Yet he’s running for mayor of NYC.
Former New York
attorney general Eliot Spitzer is caught en flagrante with a hooker.
Yet he’s running for comptroller of New York. After checking into a country club
for sex addiction, months later he’s co-host of a TV show on politics.
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| Congress? |
No news about his ex-wife and children.
But Sanford's still making news.
Earlier this week, Sanford
ventured into Congress without pants, sweat soaked and panting. Contrary to early reports, he had
just been to the gym and not with his fiancé.
Virginia has, of course,
Bodacious Bob, gift-taker, loan receiver and one of Virginia Beach’s Beach Boys.
Who has not at one time accepted gifts and loans and other
perks?
Let us never forget Bobgate, an example of undisguised patronage. Nor must we forget the collapse of the Bank of the
Commonwealth and the Faustian deals in the bank’s back rooms or at one of Tommy
Arney’s go-go clubs.
But what do we think of a man, the Guv, who takes and never
gives? Governor, it's better to give than receive.
Who would have thought the Guv, a man of principle and
conviction, could stoop so low?
Of course, he’s a lawyer. But he’s also human. Somehow, he
forgot that he is human and can be swayed by precious trinkets.
A scrappy attorney who has this power to charm and seduce
judges once told me that America’s
great leaders (presidents) were lawyers.
Name the great leaders in this pack, readers.
Obama: lawyer
Clinton:
lawyer.
George Bush: MBA
Ronald Regan: actor.
Richard Nixon: lawyer
Editor's note: In several polls, journalists were ranked just under lawyers on a likability scale. Needless to say, both professions were ranked near the bottom.
“the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart”
Charles Bukowski
Editor's note: In several polls, journalists were ranked just under lawyers on a likability scale. Needless to say, both professions were ranked near the bottom.
“the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart”
Charles Bukowski
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