David Paterson on Monday will become the third black governor since Reconstruction, and the first in New York. – What’s more is that he is partially blind – where he lost most of his vision as a child.
I say “big up!” Now we need Obama in the “White” House…. ; )
Now it’s not my thing to get people made fun of especially in situations like this. But it is John Steward, and Leno, and the rest of the crew…. and this is what they had to say about the whole scandal… “oh deary” – view video
On of the news headlines this week was the resignation of New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer, quoting from an Associated Press article, “In a startlingly swift fall from grace, Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned Wednesday after getting caught in a call-girl scandal that made a mockery of his straight-arrow image and left him facing the prospect of criminal charges and perhaps disbarment. “I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’s
work,” Spitzer said. . .”
Many articles have been written about Eliot Spitzer’s “fall from grace” even an amusing article that discussed why some politicians end up being caught in sex scandals. The article pointed out that politicians are already people who love to take risks (otherwise, why run for office), love power and the ones who “fall from grace” suffer from megalomania (“No one can touch me!” “I can get away with it, while the lesser idiots have been caught”, etc).
What was amusing is that, they were even compared to Judah in the Old Testament who slept with a prostitute, got her pregnant and it turned out to be his daughter-in-law (Why watch soap operas?) and King Solomon with his 700 wives
and 300 concubines. I’ve always wondered what was the point? There are 365 days in a year, how did he schedule time with them? Or was he like Marie-Antoinette, once used, then discard it?
Back to Spitzer, I don’t condone what he did, but I admire his actions as he stated, “I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’s work.” Our resident demagogue, Jacob Zuma could learn something from him. How many
indiscretions has he been involved with? He has criminal charges hanging over him, yet the man continues chanting, “Umshini wam, umshini wam,” while promising to be an exemplary leader for our nation. There’s a benevolent
tyrant in the making, and South Africans are just snoozing, and we’ll wake up too late embroiled in a Zimbabwean situation. So what will we do? Can’t run off to Zimbabwe? Maybe the Jackass Penguins will make room for us in
Antarctica.
