Letters to the Editor
ShawnWM
Published Letters: 1029 Editor's Choice: 4
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Damn him and he's gotta go. So digusted I can't even begin to say.
[Read the article: Eliot Spitzer's monumental fall from grace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry but it's not a matter of "prudeness" or boys will be boys acceptance.
The fact is he broke the law he prosecutes others for and left the entire party in a damned-if-we-do position. If we blow it off than every rightwing and MSM gasbag will be talking about what a bunch of phoney hypocrites we are and how we put ourselves about the law and you already know all about it. He might as well just get the hell out of the spotlight and stop embarrassing us.
What can he possibly get done now anyway. He's notorious and the right will paint him as a "corrupt hypocrite" whatever he tries or does. The worst part I think was him and his wife standing there. It's one thing for the world to find out your spouse had a fling; quite another to stand there in front of God and Country and tell the world he's been using sleazy internet "services". (I'd sooner poke my own eyes out with needles and I sure hope his Daddy paid her bucko bucks to do it; only thing I can figure)
Damn it, he KNEW he had powerful, lethal enemies and he did something this STUPID. And not just any slimey hooker either, but a 3500 dollar one. Contacted from his own phone and computer equipment. Jesus. Guys, seriously, if you have that little control than just do yourself a favor and cut it off.
God but the GOP is going to have a FIELD DAY with this.
This party is just imploding in every direction.
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Hi MaddieP
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gosh, as if I weren't already in the foulest mood over this circus of a primary and now Spitzer, I just did a long reply to you only to lose it because the server bounced it on send. drut.
Thank you for your nice message and courtesy. I'll have to type a briefer response and that may be a blessing in the end, but I'll try to get to the meat of it.
Here's what bothers me about the polls you cite. I don't know who they're talking to, and I think polls taken even three weeks ago given the ever increasing ugliness of this primary are probably obsolete. here's my take, like TomP I agree that when it comes down to us all, (well no MOST) of us here will hold our nose and vote for the other candidate. But I feel like this vitriolic primary has created a racial divide that may be insurmountable and very long lasting. It's not only what we see on message boards but also at my workplace which is about 30% black. Last summer we were all Dems together. But now they seem to hate Hillary more than McCain. It's pretty wild considering how popular the Clinton's were with blacks before as I see it the race-baiting Obama started in SC. But whoever you believe is to blame it's gotten bad enough that I'm not seeing how to bridge it. Many people here are open about their fury, but I suspect there's a majority of pour primary voters that never post a message on the interent that are simmering silently and will vote it in November. What's the reaction going to be when the superdels call this. I shudder to think, and if it's called for HRC, as I obviously hope it is, based on Obama's comments today I just don't see him endorsing her. I guess that's what's bothered me about him all along, that I didn't feel he was committed to the party, but your mileage may vary and I understand it does.
Meanwhile McCain's really popular in the SW, could easily take California, particularly if I'm right in my prediction that hispanics and asians are loyal to HRC more than the Dem ticket and if independents decide we're incompetent. Now really why in the hell would they ever think that??? Between this carnival of a primary, the embarrassing Florida/Michigan debacle, the DNC being outright broke, our District Attorney Elliot Spitzer paying for 3500 dollar internet hookers, every day it's just some other headlne circus. As if we're imploding and nobody can stop it, all we can do now is sit in horror and watch.
Maybe things will look better tommorrow but somehow I'm not feeling that they will. A desert island is sounding pretty good about now.
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Yes you are talking out of your lower anatomy.
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn is so utterly correct that the level of ignorance displayed by many in this thread about the sex work industry is appalling. It is highly, highly unlikely that the woman Spitzer hired at rates of $1000 an hour was "compelled" to sell her sexual services. Women who can command that kind of money are not working for "Leon the Bastard Pimp." They have auditioned, been interviewed, are expected to know the social graces, and they choose their line of work -- many do it to get through their undergrad and graduate degrees....I'm not talking out of my @ss here.
Obviously that's exactly what you're doing. The issue isn't whether the woman was a free prostitute. The issue is that a District Attorney has broken the law by engaging in sex for hire, and that he just happens to have a high-profile history of prosecuting the exact industry his pants were caught down in.
But you knew that. Just capitalizing on the lefties here being dumb idiots and planning to snicker and cackle about it, right?
I was a good friend of a tender-hearted man who owned a gay counterpart of such services, and his fierce protection of the young men who worked for him was exemplary -- one bad experience with a client, and that client was almost certainly history. Oh, the business was "organized," and it was "crime." But it was not "organized crime."
Oh, you're just melting my cold heart.