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"It's vile. It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."
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I'm going to share a dark secret with everyone--a secret that I've kept hidden for years.
When a politician--and it matters not which party affiliation-attacks another politician for the following-- hubris,telling lies, exaggerating the facts, stealing, murdering and last, but not least, indulging in sexual deviancy, the attacker is exponentially more guilty than the attacker. It's that old adage--it takes one to know one.
Foley isn't the only case in point. Check out DeLay for lying and stealing; check out the entire House of White for hubris as well as some of the other sins, and, of course, my buddy, my landsman, from Connecticut who knows what his constituency needs better than they themselves.
How about some honest statesmen? Let's get rid of all of the politicians from both parties. After all, it's been a one party political system for some time.
I am so sick of this line of reasoning.
Yes, it's true, across the board politicians on Capitol Hill are indeed probably some of the worst examples of humanity one can find. You can probably even expand that statement to just include all politicians period.
This, however, is not the point and just shows how neglected our critical thinking skills are, as a country.
For awhile now, it's been put forth that, "Well, B over there is just as bad as A," and one of several "therefores" is appended. Therefore A is, "throw them all out". Therefore B is, "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." Therefore C is, "let's link the two inextricably to reduce the severity of them both."
This is all just incredible bullshit and shockingly bad logic.
The "wrongness" of B in no way, shape or form affects the wrongness of A and to link the two together in any way is a smokescreen. Foley bumped uglies with some teen. He's wrong. Certain Republican Congressmen knew about this and covered it up. They're wrong. Given the evidence we have, that's as far as we go.
There is a case before us. The evidence in this case concerns specific individuals, not a systemic sitution. If evidence emerges pointing to systemic collapse, then that evidence must be considered, but at present there is no such evidence to implicate, in the matter at hand, anyone outside of those directly involved in either the situation or those who covered it up and furthered Foley's career in full knowledge of the situation.
Saying the whole of our governmental system is corrupt may very well be true. It is, however, wholly irrelevant to the situation at hand.
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