Friday, July 12, 2013

Where’s the shame? Scandals may no longer end political careers

They're just now figuring this out? Most of us have known this since Bill Clinton.
Political Cartoons by Ken Catalino
McClatchy "Sex. Drugs. Cheating on a spouse.
"Those words used to add up to shame. Put them in the same sentence as a politician’s name, and they ended careers.
"Not anymore. The latest batch of unlikely back-from-the-swamp hopefuls are Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer. Weiner resigned his New York City congressional seat two years ago after revelations that he’d tweeted a sexually suggestive picture of himself to a woman who was following him on Twitter. Spitzer left the state’s governorship in 2008 after reports surfaced that federal investigators had tagged him as “Client 9,” soliciting high-end prostitutes.
       Political Cartoons by Steve Breen
"Each now has a decent shot at a big prize, Weiner New York’s Democratic mayoral nomination, Spitzer the city’s comptroller job. Spitzer led his closest rival by 9 percentage points in a Wall Street Journal-NBC 4-Marist poll released Thursday." 
See the looks of adoration on the faces of women when a certain ex-president accused of rape enters a room.
Political Cartoons by Robert Ariail

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