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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Good Men Should Not Be Destroyed Over Stupid Mistakes

Good Morning Bloggers and Happy Pre-Thanksgiving - After living in NYC for a while I admit that I'm a huge fan of Eliot Spitzer, but I also admit that a Governor should not be caught paying prostitutes - big time conflict of interest on many levels.

I also agree with many of the conspiracy theorists that he was a possible victim of a Bush Administration hit job.

I think they were trying to knock him out of power. I haven't been bothering to talk about it, but I am THRILLED to see the New York Times do a piece on it. It deserves to be investigated. The Times is reporting that a congressional panel will ask why an eight month federal investigation into a prostitution service led to the exposure of Spitzer, and then pretty much disintegrated. It looked like they were out to get Spitzer? Doesn't it?

The prosecutor has said that politics played no role in the pursuit of Spitzer, but that has not satisfied many of us. Spitzer spent his career pursuing Wall Street wrongdoing, and many of us believe that he created a few grudges. Many wanted him to fall.

Even though I believe there are many pressing issues related to Bush that should be investigated, I'm still happy to hear the House Financial Services Committee will be looking into it. They plan to hold hearings that could include testimony from the United States Treasury’s law enforcement unit, along with Spitzer’s bank, North Fork, and HSBC, a bank used by a company connected to the prostitution service. I've read a lot about the issues involve, and it sounds pretty good to me.

Of course, Republicans are screaming about how the Democrats are interested in political "retribution." What the hell are they talking about? What is wrong with exposing Bush Administration witch hunts? No government should be allowed to destroy good people over small issues (like Gingrich did to Clinton, which I still think was wrong) to wipe out their power.

What if Democrats, while in power, tried to expose Republicans who sleep around or hire prostitutes, just to destroy their power base? I think that would be wrong too. Law enforcement needs to expose those situations quietly. They don't need to destroy lives, careers, and families over something that amounts to rogue behavior, or a weak constitution. People make mistakes of the "heart." Do you feel comfortable casting the first stone?

The bigger question is whether the Bushies were trying to keep him from exposing larger crimes they were committing - in New York, on Wall Street? It sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

I'll be keeping an eye on this one. I think it will come out that the Bush Administration destroyed Spitzer to keep him from exposing their own wrongdoings in the financial sector. I wonder how many lives the Bushies destroyed over the past eight years to cover their tracks? I'm sure the number's very high. Hopefully it will eventually be revealed, and justice will prevail. Well, I can hope.

We pride ourselves on giving people second chances. He did so many good things to help New York and the nation. He deserves our respect, not our derision. Think about forgiving him this Thanksgiving, and let's try to bring him back.

Michael Boh
Papamoka's Left Coast Contributor
from Our Rants & Raves Blog

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I could go back and forth with most people regarding prositution, cheating and reputation. First of all, prositution is not going anywhere and instead of going after the gals and John's they should focus on safer sex education. Secondly a good amount of people will cheat within their lifetime, we do not have a gene to always be with one person, at least not for 50 years, we were not even meant to live that long. I know personally that I would rather that my husband cheat with a high paid escort than with my friend down the street, less chance of emotional infidility, which in my mind is much worse that physical. I do not agree that a man should be punished, what happened should be between he and his wife and the public should stay out of it.

6:52 PM  
Blogger Papamoka said...

I would have to disagree with you Michael. Mr. Spitzer walked himself into the controversey himself, he was not forced, and he repeated the event over an over. While I commend him for all the great work he did as Attorney Genereal in New York, I can not condone how he conducted his personal life. Politics is the ultimate exception to the rule of ethics till you are caught. While folks like you and I know that we would never want that kind of spotlight on our own lives, Mr. Spitzer invited it, ran for it, and made himself out to be something that he was not ultimately. He ran as the poster boy of politics and in politics, everyone has skeletons which is why so many would never run for office. Our political opponents would not skip a heartbeat on nailing us for even a parking ticket.

10:11 PM  
Blogger B.J. said...

Everybody makes good points, but I agree with Michael’s premise that there was skullduggery at play in this expose. A good rule of thumb: don’t trust anything Bush & Co. do. The only good that will come out of this administration is GOOD RIDDANCE in January. I take somewhat a European view of such sexual encounters – les liaisons dangereux. Nobody’s business! BJ

9:21 AM  

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