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Eliot Spitzer’s Gone, What About George Walker Bush ?
All jokes aside this scandal involving the former governor of New York Eliot Spitzer gives us cause to wonder why we the people have not addressed the matter of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and the rest of the BushCo crowd’s “high”crimes?
What is interesting to note about the Spitzer matter, aka “Client Number 9” is that
Eliot Spitzer’s crime is ranked among the “low” type. It’s not a capitol crime such as homicide. It’s not in the same category as treason. We have not seen a constitutional amendment that bars public officials from having illicit affairs with hookers, call girls, prostitues, cabana boy toys, hoochies, senate pages, interns or whatever you wish to call them. We know of no state constitution which bars closet homosexuals from office, yet when Democrat Jim McGreevey was found to be less than forthright about his personal sexual preference, something we believe his wife knew about, the loyal opposition began to call for his ouster. The incidence of the scandal surrounding Eliot Spitzer, who is also a Democrat, has brought New York State Republicans back to the capital to call for his removal from office. Charges of impeachment have been on the agenda all week long…because the man committed a “low” crime.
If we Americans are so intolerant of “low” crime behavior from our leaders, the question begs to be asked “Why have we not tossed Dubya and crew out on their well-padded-with-crooked-money bottoms for their high crimes…crimes too many to list here?” How is it that the vice president gets to claim he’s not part of the administration when it is convenient for him to do so? What’s more we accept it.
Why is it when the Republicans threaten to impeach a Democrat, whether in the White House or in the state house or in the city hall, Democrats go runnin’ and hidin’ from the citizen cat calls that say, “Throw the bum outta there!” But when Democrats such as Senator Wexler of Florida announce our top leaders, their advisors and aides must be accountable for their actions, as in answer a subpoena from the United States House of Representatives by appearing before the congress, and those same presidential associates ignore the congressional order to answer questions because the president said to do so, citizens simply go about their daily routine as if all is really right with the nation because GWB is in power.
We think Americans have become too tolerant of abominations like blowing citizens and families of other countries to pieces, and too intolerant of what should be considered private sexual behaviours. We become publically upset about “private sex” and privately accepting of torture, dismemberment, disfiguration, mass killings–our own soldiers and the citizens of the other countries, chemical weapons, destruction of another country, destruction of the infrastruction of another country, hunger, deprivation and misappropriation of billions of funds which could help our own citizens out of hunger and want.
Americans have little desire to do what is right, while strongly possessing the desire to tell others how they should live–which really is none of their business.
 When it comes to moral: the so called moral side takes the point of view that they should be able to tell you how to live–even when it does not impact on them personally, and the “immoral side” takes the point of view that they should be able to live their life however they want to so long as it does not harm you or anyone else.
Unfortunately it then devolves into the moral side trying to prove your “private behaviour” could negatively impact either their children or pure citizens. Meanwhile the moral side also endorses “public behaviour” such as war, killing and misappropriation of funds, and the so called liberal or not moral side does not have the courage to question or repudiate these “public behaviours” which inarguably damage people of our own and other countries.
 When it comes to war or fighting we only have a desire to fight the easy fights on other peoples’ s turf–telling them how they’re supposed to live, like the fights in Afghanistan or Iraq… which especially suits us when the majority of our population doesn’t actually have to be in the fight, but can santimoniously reproach and disapprove what is happening in another country.
In the matter of calling the president , vice president and their minions to account Americans have no stomach for it. When it comes to America, Americans would rather watch reality television, television programming which everyone knows is scripted to appear real. A man eating worms or swimming in a vat of raw eggs or whatever they do on these programs to win a bag full of money comparable to only one tenth the amount of money the advertisiers make from the program is far more engaging to Americans than getting a dunderheaded-prince-idiot responsible for the deaths of thousands, as well as dismemberment, disfiguration, and starvation, out of office.
 Who cares what happens to other people in other countries, whether they live or die, so long as we get to tell them what to do?
We’ve got great leadership choices. We can choose as our future leader either the albino Buckie Beaver or the smiling Mickey Mouse. On a bad day we might even end up with Mr. PotatoHead bland, boring and shriveling. Besides the worst part of Dumya’s reign is over. He’ll be gone from office soon…or will he?
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