So Weiner is in the race for mayor of New York City, and now Spitzer is running for NYC comptroller. Pretty soon, you’ll be able to vote for an all disgraced weirdo ticket in NYC. I just hope there are no schools or playgrounds near city hall or this could get complicated.
Still, I guess New York City still isn’t to the level of D.C. and its electing a crack mayor, but they seem to be on that trajectory. It’s not all bad, though. The nice thing about Weiner and Spitzer is that most people recognize they are horrible people motivated by nothing more than political ambition. If we elected more people everyone recognize as awful, we’d get in less trouble because then we wouldn’t trust those people and wouldn’t support whatever they tried. But instead, people get gullible enough to think a politician is awesome and enthusiastically support that politician giving him momentum to carry out his awful ideas.
So, I say more blatantly awful people in politics. We should have no more illusions about our politicians than we would the inmates of a maximum security prison — which is probably where most politicians should end up after their term.
Unfortunately just because they’re disgraced creepy weirdoes does not mean that enough New Yorkers don’t also think they’re awesome. They’re celebrities and they have the magic D after their names.
And this creepy weirdness separates them from New Yorkers in some fashion?
I guess New York City still isn’t to the level of D.C. and its electing a crack mayor
Come to think of it, many of John Lindsay’s actions as mayor would be more understandable if it were true that he had some sort of substance-abuse problem (although I don’t think that crack existed when he was mayor).
We should have no more illusions about our politicians than we would the inmates of a maximum security prison — which is probably where most politicians should end up after their term.
Prison terms for politicians are one case where I oppose term limits.
Come on, the American people voted a man with no experience, no qualification other than race, no discernible history, no birth certificate and no college transcript that anyone can see to the highest position in the land. Of course they’ll elect a disgusting, depraved, ego maniacal, pervert to be mayor of NY City. We get the elected officials we deserve and NY deserves Wiener.
#5 seanmahair “no qualification other than race”
I really don’t wish to offend because I agree with many more of your posts then not
WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING. RACE IS NOT A QUALIFICATION FOR ANYTHING.
Combining 5 & 6:
Obama has no qualifications to be President other than race, and race isn’t a qualification for anything.